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computers using Multi-Touch™ properly, using device-appropriate Multi-Touch™ input areas are computers from Apple that run Mac OS X (and Linux and even WIndows, if need be) and OS X iPhone. The reason why Hesseldahl spends so much time …

Pystar’s Mac Clone looked like being the answer to the long-standing and ongoing Apple Mac exploitation, p2pnet posted when news of Pystyar’s Mac-alike first broke. The company was advertising a $400 ‘OpenMac” Leopard compatible Mac …

Ever since Apple made the move from PowerPC processors to processors made by Intel, the possibility of running Windows on Mac hardware has loomed large. There is, of course, the dual-boot option using Boot Camp, but most of the buzz has …

Mac News. Macworld reports from the SuperComputing 08 conference which is taking place in Austin, Texas this week. The Khronos group was present to celebrate the launch of the upcoming OpenCL specification which Apple is planning to …

Macworld reports from the SuperComputing 08 conference which is taking place in Austin, Texas this week. The Khronos group was present to celebrate the launch of the upcoming OpenCL specification which Apple is planning to implement in Mac OS X 10….

While the iMac’s processor speeds would not increase with the use these chips, it would increase the number of CPU cores from two to four. Of note, Apple has historically used Intel’s Mobile processors in the iMac and Mac Mini. …

DigiTimes reports that Apple is amongst the vendors who are awaiting the release of three new low-power desktop CPUs due in January from Intel.

Intel will launch the Core 2 Quad Q8200s (2.33GHz/4MB L2), Core 2 Quad Q9400s (2.66GHz/6MB…

Besides that, though, the Windows-within-a-Mac app has some great features, and it uses up fewer resources than its predecessors. After Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple began selling Macintosh Latest News about Macintosh …

Skype always irritated me with its automatic microphone volume changes. The Windows version has the ability to disable this option in the preferences pane, but the Mac version does not. Today, I spent some time trying to solve this problem. After some searching on net, I found a solution for the Windows version which also works on the Mac.

Quit Skype and open the folloving file with TextEdit: ~/Library » Application Support » Skype » shared.xml. At the end of the document, you’ll see this section:

<VoiceEng>  <MicVolume>77</MicVolume></VoiceEng>

Simply change this section to look like this (adding one new line):

<VoiceEng>  <AGC>0</AGC>  <MicVolume>100</MicVolume></VoiceEng>

AGC means Automatic Gain Control, and setting it to 0 disables this feature. Set it to 1 if you want to enable it again. The MicVolume can range from 0 (mute) to …

The problem: You have Time Machine set up using a sparsebundle on a network drive, such as a Time Capsule or an AirPort Extreme-connected hard drive. Most of the time, everything works great. Consider this reproducible scenario, however:

1. You are working away at home and a hourly backup starts. Time machine automagically mounts the sparsebundle.
2. You need to leave and put your laptop to sleep, not paying attention to the fact that time machine is working.
3. You move your laptop to work/school and wake it up.
4. The sparsebundle is still mounted, but obviously does not work. Finder and Spotlight grow increasing stuck until you have to reboot your machine. It occurs to you that the image back home was not closed properly and that eventually, this will corrupt your backups!

Solution:

1. Install SleepWatcher (I …