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Effect of Mac Pro Audio Update 1.0 on Aperture and Compressor tasks
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With last week’s release of a software update addressing heat and performance issues experienced by users of Apple’s Nehalem Mac Pro …

ZETZ mobile today is pleased to announce the release of Games 2010 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Games 2010 is an easy-to-use set of Winter Games bookmarks. It is the best way to follow the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games on your iPhone or iPod touch. It provides all the best Vancouver 2010 Olympic news sources, constantly updated, with over 30 leading news sources. Get all the best content from leading newspapers, web sites and magazines, so you don’t have to search.

Alfons Schmid today is pleased to announce the release of Notebooks 3.1 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Notebooks organizes projects, documents and notes in one place, which won’t interrupt the train of thought when ideas are produced and broken down into tasks. Notebooks adds task management to its note taking and file sharing capabilities and helps users to get their jobs done without leaving the application.

Frictional Games today announces a first look at actual in-game footage of their brand new horror game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, in the form of a horrifying teaser. General information about the game, screenshots and a teaser are the main additions to the heavily updated web site. Take a deep breath and prepare yourself to experience the first real gameplay video released. This teaser gives a first look at what sort of experience we are aiming for when playing Amnesia.

Jens Daemgen today announced that ProCamera 2.6, the leading European solution for the iPhone camera has now been released to the American marketplace. ProCamera is an advanced iPhone photography application that adds greater functionality and possibilities to the iPhone, by taking full advantage of all hardware and software resources. For the first time, there is an all-in-one camera app for iPhone users. With usability as intuitive as you would expect from an iPhone application.

Last week, a report that video site Hulu might be making its way to the iPad generated a significant amount of interest, with many users excited about the prospect of free access to television content on Apple’s forthcoming tablet device. MediaMemo …

AppleInsider reports that it has received information that Apple is planning an enhancement to its next-generation MacBook Pros that will allow for automatic switching between integrated and discrete graphics processors based on whichever is the more…

Esse Quam Videri Music Group today announces iGovernment 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. iGovernment brings brings the government into the palm of your hand. It features over 50 feeds of news, photos, blogs, and videos from departments and offices across all three branches of the Federal Government into an easy-to-use, fast, and beautiful package. Now it is easier to keep up with the latest government news than ever before.

Yesterday, I had problems restarting my Mac mini, so I booted off an external hard disk with a clone, and fixed the startup problem. This morning, I needed to find a file in my Time Machine backup, but all my backups prior to the moment I booted from the external disk were dark in the Time Machine timeline (at the right of the screen). In the Finder, I could only access those created since last night.

The backups were still there, though, and the Time Machine System Preferences pane recognized the date of my first backup as the oldest backup on my Time Machine disk.

I searched for solutions, and found none. Then I recalled an older hint about browsing other Time Machine backups by holding down the Option key while clicking the Time Machine icon in the menubar. So I tried that.

Only the one Time Machine disk showed up, and I selected it, and was able to access all my backups in the…

The following AppleScript will display a dialog box showing the names of every identified face in a selected photo in iPhoto:

tell application "iPhoto"

  activate

  set the selected_items to (get the selection)

  repeat with z from 1 to the count of the selected_items

    set this_photo to item z of the selected_items

    select this_photo

    set the query_results to my extract_face_record(this_photo)

    if the the query_results is not false then

      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
      repeat with i from 1 to the count of the query_results

        set the info_list to item i of the query_results

        if i is 1 then

          set the dialog_text to the info_list as text

        else

          set the dialog_text to the dialog_text & return & return & the info_list as tex...