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Lots of DropBox Invites Available

Scott — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:57:40 +0000

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 email.

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OS X 10.5.3 Available Today From Apple.com

Scott — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:41:55 +0000

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.

256Gb Flash Drives Coming Soon

Scott — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:26:33 +0000

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.

Free Banner Poster Printing App For OS X

Scott — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:43:03 +0000

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 want a large banner for a birthday party create and save the banner as a PDF using your favourite application, then load the PDF into Tiler and scale up to the desired size.

It actually sounds more complicated than it is. Download the application and try it, it is FREE after all.

Windows is FAIL in a Can

Scott — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:19:04 +0000

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

Panorama Photo Stitcher For OSX

Scott — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:59:01 +0000

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.

100 Excellent Wordpress Themes

Scott — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:23:05 +0000

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.

UKMac In Spanish !

Scott — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:43:36 +0000

Just spotted a copy of my last post ( iWork Resources and Templates ) on ToDo Apple Blog converted into Spanish ! Thanks for that !

Apple iWork Resources and Templates

Scott — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:44:59 +0000

The iWork suite of applications ( Numbers, Pages, Keynote ) comes with a number of really well made templates designed to get you producing superb quality, impressive looking documents in no time at all. But what if the pre-installed templates aren’t quite what you need for your current project or task ?

There are a surprisingly small number of sites where you can find additional templates for the iWork applications. The list below contains the best ones that seem to be available at the moment. If you know of any better ones please drop a comment on this post and I will gladly update it to include them.

iWorkCommunity.com:Template Exchange - This site is probably the most comprehensive currently available. At the time of writing there were 225 Pages templates, 5 for Keynote and 15 for Numbers. All the templates here are free to download and use.

iWork Templates - This is a slightly more recent free template site which currently only has about 18 templates to offer.

Number Templates - This site specialises on free templates for Numbers as well as providing hints and tips on how to use the application.

Jumsoft is a commercial site providing high quality templates for iWeb, Pages and Keynote as well as clipart and animations. The Pages templates product is $39 and provides a range of 20 different templates.

Keynote Pro is another commercial site that offers a range of templates for Pages and of course Keynote. Their themes are exceptionally elegant and stylish.

Oneeyedgoldfish is a UK based company who provide a range of templates for Pages at £10 per theme or all of their themes for £40. They also have a small number of free templates for download as a taster of their full offerings.

So there you have it. A small list for now but hopefully of help anyway. Please do tell me of any other good resources for iWork by leaving a comment below.

UKMac.net Upgraded To Wordpress 2.5.1

Scott — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:55:39 +0000

After reading a couple of reviews of the Instant Upgrade plugin for Wordpress, I decided to give it a run on UkMac.net tonight. Unfortunately my experience was not quite as smooth as others have reported, but after a little bit of tweaking ( mainly due to problem with UltimateTagWarrior plugin ) I am back online and running a nice fresh Wordpress release !