By ray | November 15, 2007
VMware as released VMware Fusion 1.1 VM software for the Mac. The software now fully supports Leopard. Additional new OS support includes 32 and 64-bit Vista along with 64-bit Windows XP. There’s over two dozen improvements and fixes listed in the release notes.
VMware also released a beta version of their VMware Importer. This can be [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged vmware_fusion |
By ray | November 14, 2007
FileMaker, the Apple subsidiary that has a database app by the same name, has released a preview of Bento, which it bills as a personal database.
The preview expires Feb 14, 2008 so that’s a good indication of when the first full release will be available and you’ll have to pay for a license. I couldn’t [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged bento, database |
By ray | November 11, 2007
Path Finder 4.8.2 has been released by CocoaTech. This release now supports Quicklook when run on Leopard. It can also replace Finder by being the default file viewer when “Reveal in Finder” is used.
Since upgrading to Leopard I’ve been trying to stay in Finder as much as possible in order to give it a chance. [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged pathfinder |
By ray | October 30, 2007
I have to admit an unhealthy admiration for two apps that come free with OS X. Both received upgrades with Leopard which makes me happy. Unlike their closest counterparts in Windows these are truly useful apps that approach perfection. A perfect app is one that does what it’s designed to do quickly and efficiently. Best [...]
Posted in Mac Apps | Tagged leopard |
By ray | October 11, 2007
Conspicuously absent from my 10 most used and 10 most popular lists was any sort of word processor or spreadsheet. So I’ll make it a trilogy and cover text editors in this post. I’ll throw in a spreadsheet mention since my spreadsheet use doesn’t warrant a mention on it’s own.
Actually, my primary text editor did [...]
Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10.
So these are the apps I wished were on, or expected to show [...]
