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Last week, Valve Software generated some excitement among gaming fans who noticed Mac OS X menu components and other items in the most recent release of the company’s Steam distribution platform for the PC. Combined with reports of Valve recruiting …

Last week, Valve Software generated some excitement among gaming fans who noticed Mac OS X menu components and other items in the most recent release of the company’s Steam distribution platform for the PC. Combined with reports of Valve recruiting …

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on comments from Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of parent company News Corp., who noted that the newspaper will be present on the iPad and that Ap…

Billboard reports that Apple has been pressuring music labels over their participation in Amazon’s “Daily Deal” program that has allowed them increased exposure and sale pricing on Amazon’s MP3 download s…

Utah based FogTechnologies today released Snap + Map 1.0 for iPhone devices. Snap + Map is the first iPhone app to convert paper maps into GPS enabled maps. Users simply take a picture of a paper map using their iPhone, set two snap points and Snap + Map displays their current location on the map. Walk into a zoo, grab the park map take a picture and see where you are on the map for the day.

Want to do quick and dirty image editing on the fly? Let Image Events do the work for you. I created a free AppleScript app, which I’ve named uPad; download the script (112KB) (macosxhints mirror — but use the original link as long as it works.), and then read on for some notes on how to use it…

uPad is an image manipulation utility that can convert, crop and pad, scale, and rotate images. It’s an AppleScript that uses the Image Events process to read and manipulate images. For convenience, use a launcher to launch the AppleScript — I’m using Spark. Or, for access from the menu bar, enable Show Script menu in menu bar in AppleScript Editor’s General preferences, and put uPad in ~/Library » Scripts » Applications » Finder (you might have to create some of those folder…

I really like browsing without all the flashy ads around, so I’ve been using the filtering-proxy Privoxy now for many years. But there is no longer support for Mac OS X, as there isn’t a maintainer for the Mac OS X port any more. MacPorts still has 3.0.12, which has some major bugs (timeouts), so I decided to build from source. Here’s how to get it run…

First, get the source for Privoxy 3.0.16 from SourceForge (1.7MB direct download). Unpack the download somewhere, and make sure you have Xcode installed somewhere.

Open Terminal and c…

TechCrunch reports that a Google spokesperson issued a statement yesterday indicating that the company will “stand behind” handset manufacturer HTC in its patent dispute with Apple.

“We ar…

Earlier this week, research analyst Peter Misek of Canaccord Adams claimed that a “manufacturing bottleneck” at Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn/Hon Hai Precision would result in constrained supplies…

SkypeCap today announces SkypeCap for Mac 3.7, an update to its video and audio session recorder for Mac OS X. SkypeCap for Mac captures and records audio and video calls made from Skype and outputs various video and audio formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC, MOV, MPEG4, MPEG, VOB, PSP MPEG4, SWF and FLV. SkypeCap for Mac saves your Skype sessions so that you could hear and watch them again later or share them with someone else.