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Mac News Briefs: LaCie intros home media players (Macworld.com). Macworld.com – LaCie has released a pair of wireless high-definition media players aimed at allowing users to access and play content from their HD televisions. … This entry was posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 5:03 am and is filed under Uncategorized, apple/macintosh. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your …

Zevrix Solutions announces the release of LinkOptimizer 4 public beta, a pre-release version of its major upgrade to the workflow automation solution to optimize InDesign jobs. LinkOptimizer allows users to reduce InDesign job cost through faster output, smaller job size and automatic image processing. The new version introduces over 20 new features, including image format conversion, resolution oversampling, link preview, process logs and optimizing several documents of similar design at once.

Mac News Briefs: LaCie intros home media players. The LaCinema Black Play and Record devices can store music, movies, and photos from any computer on the local network, whether through a direct network connection or built-in Wi-Fi. …

Windows 7 very capable of hurting Apple Mac sales Microsoft has practically shocked everybody by developing Windows 7 so quickly that they are now in a.

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue officially announced today that Apple has selected the state as the location of a new data center, which will see the company invest more than $1 billion over a nine-year period.

Gov. Bev Perdue …

Jive Media LLC and PetTech of Vacaville are pleased to announce Pet First Aid 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Pet First Aid is loaded with detailed videos, step-by-step illustrations, & rich articles covering all emergency situations pet owners might encounter. The application also allows users to store pet medical profiles for emergency situations. The user can record a medical profile that includes the pet’s name, weight, age, vaccinations, medications, veterinarian contact info, and much more.

Maintain today announced Cocktail 4.3.4 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Version 4.3.4 adds clearing of Renepo.A, Renepo.B and Tored.A trojans, fixes compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.5.7, Firefox and Google Gears as well as addresses minor bug fixes discovered in the previous release. The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).

BusinessWeek reports that Apple has included features in its upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 that would allow users to share apps with other iPhone users, although whether Apple decides to activate those features remains to be seen.

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I won’t discuss the pros or cons of Apple’s Mighty Mouse here, as mine just broke. Or more to the point, I broke it — the sticking little ball just drove me round the bend. Anyhow, I ended buying myself a simple, cheap and quite nice USB optical mouse. Nothing fancy. Two main buttons plus a scroll/button wheel (ie: a scroll wheel that you can also click). So far so good. Until I re-installed my System.

Once in I started setting the system up like I wanted it, to my horror, the Mouse preferences didn’t show me the third button on my mouse! Now what? Well it turns out that the System treats the Mighty Mouse special. That is, it recognizes it as such and brings up the corresponding preferences. Great, what about the rest of us?

I scoured the net for several days trying to find out if someone had worked it out. I did find one solution. Just plug in a Mighty Mouse, set the preferences, plug it out, use you other mouse — the preferences will ‘stick.’ Fine, what if you don’…

When upgrading a Tiger machine to Leopard, there seems to be some circumstances that prevent the upgrade of Mail data from completing. You can recognize this condition by these symptoms:

The Console logs can give some clues to the cause. Sometimes this is caused by conflicting or corrupt Junk Mail settings in the com.apple.mail.plist file.

The various values have changed in some version updates to Mac OS X. For some, it’s the JunkMailInfoPanelHasBeenShown attribute. For me, it was changing JunkMailBehaviorHasBeenConfigured to false. Also, removing the JunkViewerAttributes setting seemed to be necessary. These can be changed using Property Li…