OSXGuide.comOSXGuide.com BackendFirst Take: Apple Music Announcements- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Apple's press event announcing several new music products is ongoing, and we'll provide updated coverage as it happens. So far, Apple has announced a new iPod phone in conjunction with Motorola, version 5 of iTunes, and a new iPod Mini replacement called iPod nano. iPod Phone "ROKKR" -Holds 100 songs. -Available through Cingular. -$249 plus contract. iTunes 5 -"Smart" shuffle feature -FOLDERS! -Improved iTunes music store searching iPod Nano -Super small. 13 size of Motorola Razor phone. ..http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=193 Free iTunes Songs With Gift Certificate Purchase- (Found July 11, 2008 ) If you're thinking of buying an iTunes gift certificate for someone this holiday season, then consider taking advantage of this deal. If you pay through PayPal, you get 25 free songs for yourself with a $50 gift certificate purchase, or 10 free songs if you purchase a $20 gift certificate. Here is a link to the deal information page. This is a pretty good deal considering you get 50% of your purchase price in free songs with and deals on iTunes Music Store purchase are few and far between,...http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=203 MacUpdate.com Offers Free 1-year Subscriptions- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Popular Mac software tracking site has announced that users who sign up in January will be given a one-year subscription free of charge for the entirey of 2006. The membership includes the ability to customize certain settings and layouts at the site, and normally costs $20year. The free year of membership is only available to new users and registration requires only a valid e-mail address. Click to here to sign up for the free one-year membership. MacUpdate is the leading catalog of...http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=204 498 MB Free Software Collection for OS X- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Software for Starving Students (SSS) is a software development project that provides a free collection of open source and freeware software for users of OS X (and Windows XP, if you're so inclined). The software is intended to be a complete collection of useful applications and utilities for students or others who want great free programs in an easy-to-use installer. The programs in the OS X collection, which is available as a .dmg file through Bit Torrent or a direct link download, include...http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=205 Free Windows Media Plugin for Quicktime Available- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Visitors to Microsoft's Windows Media website for Mac have recently discovered that the company is apparently no longer making a version of their Windows Media Player for the Mac platform. Instead of providing access to a download of the latest version, Microsoft now provides for download a free third-party plugin that works with QuickTime so users can open Windows Media files directly through QuickTime Player or QuickTime aware applications such as web browsers. The free program, called...http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=206 Battle for Wesnoth: Free Mac Roll Playing Game- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Today's Daily Dose is an open source roll playing game called Battle for Wesnoth. This game is a turn-based RPG akin to many other popular action-based RPGs like Warcraft. As an open source project, the game has been developed for multiple platforms including Mac OS X, Windoze, and Linux. Fortunately, the game has advanced multi-player options, including network play, so all of these platform choices mean you can play against any of your friends, regardless of what platform they have. Read..http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=207 Photoshop 35% Faster on Intel Macs with OS X 10.4.8- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Reports are now coming in on the latest system update to Mac OS X, and they indicate that speed improvement for non-Intel native binaries is significant. These improvements stem from Apple's changes to the Rosetta sofware that allows PPC binaries to run on Intel Macs. Lab tests from Macworld show that improvements to certain application like Photoshop are as high as 35% faster versus prior versions of Mac OS X. This news will come as a very welcome surprise for the many Adobe users who have..http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=208 OS X Freeware of the Day: Quinn Network Tetris Game- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Today's OS X freeware of the day harkens back to the days of Nintendo and the original Gameboy system, in front of which many of us spent hours upon hours destroying lines of blocks in a game called Tetrist. Since that time, many versions of Tetrist for many different computer and gaming systems have come and gone. Now, we look at a free version of Tetris for Mac OS X users, namely: Quinn. Quinn is a completely free OS X version of Tetrist that includes multiplayer and network playing...http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=209 OS X Freeware of the Day: Google Earth- (Found July 11, 2008 ) Most people have used one Internet mapping service or another to find directions online. But a whole new level of navigational and explorative wonder awaits those who use the Google Earth software client to access Google's database of geographic data. Only fairly recently has an OS X client been available for Google Earth, which started out as a Windows only program. In today's FOTD, we take a closer look at Google Earth, which is available for free download directly from Google.http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=215 OS X Freeware of the Day: Netfixer website image capture tool- (Found July 11, 2008 ) If you have ever wanted to have a photographic record of a particular web page, you probably know that getting a good, complete image of an entire web page is not an easy task. Sure, you can print the web page to paper or PDF, but that is not a representation of how the web page is actually displayed within a web browser. You could take a screen capture of the web page, but that will only show you the portion of the page that is visible in your browser window -- most web pages are longer than.http://www.osxguide.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=214 |