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DropBox is the latest and greatest file and photo sync service available on the Internet. Currently in closed beta access to the service is invite only but UKMac.net has a number of invites available to anyone who wants one, simply post a comment on this blog post and we will send you one by return [...]
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Tiler is one of those applications you won’t need often but when you do you can never find a way to do it. Tiler, as the name suggests prints out documents as “tiles”. The number of tiles, horizontal and vertical, can be added to to increase the size of the final output. So if you [...]
O2 have today announced that they will be dropping the price of the 8Gb iPhone by £100 to £169. The deal will run until June 1st and is presumably O2’s way of clearing old stock before the widely rumoured announcement of the 3G iPhone.
Psystar ( site down at present ) a small security specialists from Miami has announced that they will be selling a tower based PC capable of running unmodified copies of OS X Leopard for just $399 or $554 with Leopard already installed. The PC, known as OpenMac, will be Core 2 Duo based, come [...]
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- Apple have today posted the latest update to OS X Leopard, available via Apple.com or Software Update the installation is a fairly hefty download ranging from 200Mb to 420Mb. The update includes over 300 new features and fixes.#
- Appleinsider has a report covering an announcement from Samsung about their forthcoming 256Gb SSD drive, which is reportedly destined to find its way into next gen MacBook Air's. This is a major development and this technology is going to become more and more significant in the development of small light and fast laptops. Currently most small laptops are crippled by low speed 1.8" SATA drives and large capacity SSD drives will go a long way to improving the performance of next gen ultra-portables. #
- Apple Grrl has a great YouTube clip of some friends explaining why one of them should switch from Windows to a Mac. Well worth a look #
- I saw a post a couple of nights ago on some Apple forum or other asking if anyone knew where to find an application to stitch photos together to form a panorama. Unfortunately I can't recall where I read the question as I have tonight found the answer ! Anyway to who ever it was the answer may be to try Hugin an open source multi platform solution to this problem available on Sourceforge.net. I haven't yet tried it myself so can't vouch for its capability but may have a go soon. #
- Smashing Magazine has compiled a list of 100 excellent Wordpress themes. If you are looking for a little design inspiration this is an superb place to start.#
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