Category: Other Companies
Companies other than Apple which announce Macintosh or Apple related items.
Contact: Jon Christopher Co John Valdezco https://www.manilagear.com Henry Courbis http://reactivemicro.com Manila Gear Introduces the 2soniq and Announces New Partnership with ReActiveMicro Mountain View, CA, 7 April 2016 — Manila Gear today announced the 2soniq interface card for the Apple IIGS. The card gives IIGS owners the ability to connect 2 powered speakers so they can enjoy stereophonic sound. This is a simpler version of the 4soniq – the quadraphonic sound card with a monophonic input digitizer that the company…
For those folks who have been shopping from Amazon over the years, or those complaining that Amazon was driving the brick and mortar stores out of business, then this story is for you. According to the Seattle Times, Amazon will be opening a store in the University District at 9:30am tomorrow morning. While many major book stores have been forced to close in the past several years, this is the first time that the entirely online Amazon has ventured into…
Mac users wanting to save a PDF of their TurboTax return or print to file, are forced to upload their data to Intuit via a silent connection. The Mac TurboTax license says, “You may save your return as a PDF file and understand it may be processed on Intuit servers, not as part of the Software.” In a February 19 Wall Street Journal article, Intuit blames Apple: According to Julie Miller, an Intuit spokeswoman, TurboTax made the…
Radio Shack, long considered a hackers dream has fallen on hard times as of late. They have struggled mightily to keep pace with the changing market and have finally bitten the bullet with the filing of Bankruptcy. During the 1980’s, Radio Shack was one of the main competitors for the home computing market along side Apple and Commodore. Their computers made headway into many schools and homes but failed to keep pace once they switched to IBM compatible systems in…
Darren Crawford has managed to do what no one ever considered possible: Post a Facebook posting from an Apple //e computer. In what is a first ever event, Darren posted his message using a combination of Lynx and the mobile version of the Facebook website. It wasn’t just an instant success, but instead was a work of some trial and error. In discussions in the A2C.Chat channel of A2Central’s IRC, much of the discussion was about issues with character loss…
Apple has released updated printer drivers for the Brother series of printers. Version 2.10 of the Mac OS X printer driver was posted last night on the Apple Support website and is now available for download. The driver coversMac OS X Mountain Lion, Lion and Leopard You can download the new driver from the Apple support page for Brother printers at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894
Apple has updated their printer drivers for the HP series printers. Version 2.12 (listed as 2.13 on the apple support page) is now available for download and covers Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Lion, as well as Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) You can download the drivers from the Apple HP Printer support page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907
It seems that owners of Cisco and Linksys home routers got a rather invasive surprise this holiday season. Cisco pushed out an update to their routers which requires users to use the Cisco Cloud service to log in to their routers. According to Boing Boing, the routers lock the users out and only lets them have access back if they agree to the new terms of service permitting Cisco to essentially spy on them. While many companies have monetized users…
Mozilla announced plans today to build a mobile operating system entirely based on the Web and HTML5, all powered by the popular Firefox web browser. Already, Mozilla has several mobile phone companies behind it, including Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Telenor. The Firefox OS will be built on Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko technology, which promises to eliminate several limitations of web development on mobile devices. One of the key features will be the privilege of HTML5…
Google, Inc announced today that it has developed an iPhone and iPad compatible version of its popular Chrome web browser. The browser, which is available now in the App Store, offers many of the same features from the desktop version of Chrome, including synchronization across devices of bookmarks and tabs, as well as private “incognito” browsing. Google Chrome currently has over 310 million active users. The announcement was made on the second day of the Google I/O conference in San…
Google has had a dedicated Mac Blog for the past five years run by Scott Knaster, a programmer and writer since 1980. While many places are ramping up their Mac based offerings, Google seems to be stepping off the platform in favor of pushing their own Chrome platform. Scott announced the end of life for the Google Mac Blog in the latest posting to the blog. Scott’s final post on the Google Mac Blog states that “Our Mac and iOS…
For those users who use Microsoft products on their Macs, you need to be aware that there is a new version of the Backdoor Trojan embedded in a word document related to the Tibetan situation. According to this article, it is possibly related to the Chinese effort to keep an eye on Tibetan sympathizers and any group banned by the Chinese goverment: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/30/mac-malware-backdoor/ Make sure that you update all of your Microsoft products to the latest version set by the…
This is of concern to people running Intel Macs, PCs, or Virtual Machines. As of May 23, 2012 the official version of Mint 13 is available from http://linuxmint.com. If anyone has the RC version, it seems to have updated successfully to the official version. The release comes on a single layer 800MB DVD. There are two versions at the moment. Cinnamon (a Gnome 3 fork) and MATE (a Gnome 2 fork). I have installed the 64 bit RC of Cinnamon…
A photo on the Daily, a news site covering a variety of topics, claims to be the next generation Microsoft Office Suite for the iPad. While not all that far fetched since One Note was released for the iPad, the fact that Microsoft would want to go beyond the On Live concept with their iPad based application seems a bit preposterous. With On Live, the control is all in the network, however, with an actual App, Microsoft loses all control…
Mozilla has released an update to the Firefox Browser that they have classified as a critical update. The update, Version 10.0.1, fixes a security flaw in version 10.0 as well as a Java freezing problem that was in previous versions of the browser. New items in the update include Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented CSS3 3D-Transforms are…
The latest version of the Google Chrome browser has been released. Version 16.0.912.77 if primarily a maintenance release, fixing a number of bugs. You can download the latest version from the Google Chrome website at: https://www.google.com/chrome
Filemaker is offering 50% or $150 off the price of FileMaker Pro with the purchase of FileMaker Go for the iPhone or the iPad. The pricing for the iPhone version is $19.99 and $39.99 for the iPad Version. The deal is outlined on the FileMaker Special Page and is limited to end users of the product. The offer is good until 22 March, 2012. More information is available on the FileMaker website at: http://info.filemaker.com/fmgo_promo2012.html
An online study by Adobe Systems Inc shows that tablet users tended to spend about 21 percent more per purchase than other users. This study shows that they spent even more when compared to smart phone users, by a whopping 54 percent. This analysis may be the result of many companies tailoring their services for tablet devices in current updates. However, with the current trend in tablet computing the ease with which purchases are performed on the devices could be…
Adobe announced this morning that they are releasing their Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta and that it will be free for users to download. This latest update to the Lightroom application includes some new features specifically targeting the latest DSLR capabilities as well as the ability to create better quality photo books. To download your own copy of the latest Lightroom 4 beta, go to: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/
Google has released an update to their Google Currents application just a week after the introduction of the package. Version 1.0.1 is intended to resolve some of the stability issues with the Application as well as to fix scrolling issues on older versions of iOS 4. There are also some library issues that have been resolved. While this upgrade will work for some folks, several users are complaining about their feeds disappearing from their library. Also errors in the interface…
