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Yup, we followed the herd to see what the google+ thing was all about. Just like Google Wave we are here tinkering and playing with the system.
Being the type of people we are, we would like to share the love and giving away google plus invites. Simply Yell Us! and we will send an invite.
With all the Broo haa haa that is going to be the build up to Lion installs world wide, we are one step ahead with our installation.
Taking just over an hour an a VERY cluttered Mac Book Pro 2009 model with 4gb the install went as smooth as I had hoped that it would do.
Sunday afternoon, the sun is blazing, so what better things to do than install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (GM 11A511).
No mucking around testing if things will work with our apps for us. Nope sir -e- bob. We are going live with this puppy!
**Update**
We now have a guide on How To Install Lion From A usb Stick or DVD Drive live. After using this for a fornight the jury is still out. Whilst there are a lot of positives there does seem to be a lot of hard drive spinning.
It looks like we will be doing a format and re install to see if that solves some issues.
Windows users are used to having plenty of easy to access tools to show then what’s going under hte hood of their system. The Mac on the other hand has tools but requires some knowledge to get to these nuggets of information, such as knowing what process is sucking your processors dry etc.
Continue reading → adnx CheckUp – Scan your mac performance at a glance
Mophie recently announced the availability of a new design for their highly popular and useful juice pack air battery extender for iPhone 4. The Mophie juice pack air snap case (US$79.95) is available at Apple Stores and other retailers, and while it still offers virtually double the battery capacity of the stock iPhone 4, the new design makes it easier to access all of the switches and ports of the smartphone.
Continue reading → Mophie juice pack air iPhone battery gets snappy.
It seems that the Gmail update for the iPhone has had some unexpected repercussions, breaking the Mailtab Desktop client.
Oddly enough, the application still plays a notification noise when mail is received.
It’s not the first time that Mailtab has faced this issue BUT and I have to stress BUT they are normally very quick to find a solution for this program.
As always we will keep you updated.
UPDATE
Well we sent Mailtab an e-mail and got an immediate reply.
This is an issue with Gmail’s abuse systems. We are working with google to get a solution in place soon.
Update 2 – 1st July
Seems the fixing fairies have done their job well and it’s now back up and running. Although it looked broken it seems that clicking the Home Tab at the bottom right of the app refreshed “stuff” and we’re back!
Simplicity can be the key at times with putting images on a website and this is where Zapd comes into it;s own.
V1.4 has just been released with the following updates
– Custom URLs are here!! Want to personalize your web address? You can do it now! Under Settings, choose a URL that you want and now you’ve made a custom website right from your phone!
– Option to make individual Zaps “private”. When you mark a Zap as private, it won’t show up in our showcase and only people whom you give the URL to will know about it. A great way to share personal events with a select group!
We have our own sample page here http://2pan.zapd.co/ if you want to see a quick and dirty example of what can be done.
“To see a list of all the applications on your Mac that will go phutt when you upgrade to Lion, hold down the Option key, click on the Apple menu, and select System Profiler.
In the window that appears, select the Applications entry, which appears under the Software heading.
Click on the Kind column to sort your applications by kind (meaning Classic, Intel, PowerPC, and Universal).
Seek out any that read Classic or PowerPC.
These are the applications that will be incompatible with Lion. (Those Classic applications are also incompatible with Snow Leopard.)”
Another way to do this is to run Xslimmer and let it check what architecture you are presently running. If it doesn’t say Intel then it wont.
Unlocking your iPhone has just become that little bit harder with reports we’ve read today about the new iOS 5 beta 2.
We really liked the Gevey Sim unlock and we were all up for looking at the Gevey Ultra sim unlock however,
MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team confirmed in a tweet on Friday that Apple has killed the hack, suggesting it may have been underpressure from carriers:
“it’s surprising Apple closed Gevey interposer hole in b2 rather than waiting until final (maybe they were under pressure)”
This means the Gevey SIM unlock will now only work for iOS 5 beta 1 and below, until Applenberry — the team behind the device — update it to work with the final iOS 5 release. If, of course, that’s possible.
In the meantime, then, the only hope for unlockers is software unlocks that will require your device to be jailbroken. The downside to that is that there is currently no untethered jailbreak solution for devices running iOS 5.
Aspyr Media has posted on its blog that it will be bringing the long-awaited Duke Nukem sequel, titled Duke Nukem Forever, to the Mac. Known for its legendary development period, the game finally arrived on PC and consoles recently, and unfortunately, it didn’t turn out very well, earning generally mediocre reviews across the board
Still, this is worth adding to your games collection as a sequel has already been announced. This is another sign that the mac is gaining traction as an alternative games platform.
Aspyr’s version will be out in August, and it’s offering a 10% discount on pre-orders right now. I can’t promise it’ll be any good, but if you want to at least see what the final version of Duke Nukem Forever looks like running on your Mac, there you go.
There’s still no word of any version of the game coming to iOS — we had spotted the App Store mentioned in that legal agreement a while back, but for all we know, that could just have been for the soundboard released recently. After the reviews on DNF, it’s hard to think the Duke franchise will recover, but you never know — if some enterprising developer wants to make a top-down dual-stick Duke shooter for Apple’s mobile devices, we can’t say we’d be adverse to the prospect.
unoTelly, a favourite of the EssentialMac team now lets you watch country specific content on sites such at Netflix, right here in the UK. Check out the full UnoTelly review for an indepth look.
Continue reading → How To Get Neflix USA in the UK, unoTelly is the answer.
No doubt like most I like some music in the background whilst I go about my daily business. This means I normally resort to firing of iTunes and selecting a radio station from there but it seems just a little bit big and cumbersome to have such a huge program lying in the background doing not a lot.
Enter Radium, which I confess I only recently found out about in the Freelance Mac App Bundle we are doing on our main front-page so I decided to give it a go
Continue reading → Review : Radium, a slim, menu bar based internet radio player
EssentialMac has been exclusively invited to take part in a beta of the Unotelly for Mac . UnoTelly gives you a way to watch region free TV. So in the UK you can watch hulu, USA viewers can watch programs on BBC iPlayer and so on and if you choose, watch a different countries netflix offerings no matter where on the planet you are.
Continue reading → UnoTelly – Let’s you watch Hulu and more in the uk
As you may or may not know most Apple applications come with what’s called universal binaries. A universal binary is an application that contains files for various incarnations of the OS X operating system and chip architecture for example32 or 64-bit. Needless to say this takes up space especially if you are an SSD user.
Continue reading → AOTD : Xslimmer helping you free space on your HDD