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FireFox 10 succesfully ported for PowerPC Macs!

By Luke On Feb 3, 2012 Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: Firefox, PowerPC

Thanks again to the TenFourFox dev team for pumping these releases out as fast as they do.

The TenFourFox app is FireFox in nature, but individually optimized for G3, G4, and G5 systems. This release shows performance boosts on multi-CPU macs as well as a flurry of other advancements released with FireFox 10.

To view a comprehensive list of features and improvements, visit the Mozilla FireFox 10 page.

You can download TenFourFox and learn more here.

FireFox 9 beta 4 now available for PowerPC

By Luke On Dec 2, 2011 Apple | Retro Mac | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: Firefox, PowerPC

Thanks again to the TenFourFox development team for continuing to port current versions of Moizilla’s FireFox browser. Mozilla dropped PowerPC support for FireFox over a year ago.

Your web browser is huge because it connects you to so much content, having a current and secure browser that is optimized for your system and updated regularly is crucial and TenFourFox fills that role for PowerPC users. I’m up to my knees in PowerPC and I don’t feel the need to upgrade to Intel just quite yet.

If you want to read about some of the trials and tribulations that the team encountered with this release you can see it at the TenFourFox Development Blog.

You can find system specific builds (G3,G4,G5) from TenFourFox

You can still play WOW on your PowerPC Mac

By Luke On Apr 23, 2011 Apple | Software/Freeware 5 5 Comments Tags: Warcraft

But you’re gonna have to leave your friends and guild behind (or convince them to move to a free server) Here’s How You Do It:

Visit xtremetop100.com/world-of-warcraft and sign up for any server that supports 3.3.5 (Almost every server does)
If you have already patched your current version of WOW to 4.0 from 3.3.5, you will have to reinstall.
Go to wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors. Using the links provided, download and patch your WOW install all the way to 3.3.5
Before you log in you must first patch your realmlist.wtf file, so you log onto the private server and not Blizzards. To do this navigate to Applications ->World of Warcraft->Data->enUS->realmlist.wtf. Open with text edit and replace the first line with the serer address provided by the private server. Save the file.
You can now log in and play WOW on your PowerPC.

If you are having trouble I would be happy to help you out. Just leave a post below in the comments.

OS X menubar apps.

By Luke On Apr 19, 2011 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: menubar

Some of the best apps , are the smallest apps. Here is a list of my favorite OS X menubar apps.

F.lux – It makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. (You need to try it to get the full effect)
MenuMeters – A set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools, nestled away in your menubar
CalendarBar – Supports Facebook, iCal, and Google Calendar so you can keep track of all your events with ease

Shown but not mentioned is the menubar icon for Dropbox.

Final Cut Pro X: Best new features

By Luke On Apr 18, 2011 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: Final Cut Pro X

Apple’s pro video and film editing app is finally getting a fully Cocoa-fied, 64-bit rewrite, including a UI overhaul and underlying support for full background rendering.

The rewritten app takes full advantage of underlying Mac OS X technologies introduced in Snow Leopard, including OpenCL, GCD, Quicktime X, and Core Animation, to deliver background rendering. Final Cut Pro X can now natively handle up to 4K resolutions as well as the ability to automatically scale CPU-intensive tasks to fully utilize multicore processors and offload certain tasks to available GPUs.

Available June, $299

New Mac apps of 2011

By Luke On Apr 7, 2011 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments

This is the future now, right? Okay, I thought so. Here are some of the coolest new apps of 2011!

Boxcar -Instant push notifications for your social networks, email accounts, RSS feeds and more.
AlterVideo Safari Extension – Force flash/embedded videos to use the HTML5 video player when possible.
Moso -Moso is a new app that makes editing and sharing videos fast, easy and fun.
CalendarBar -CalendarBar is a unique way to keep track of your events. It shows a list of upcoming events in your menubar where it’s easy to access from any application.

How to backup your entire Mac online for $5/month

By Luke On Feb 1, 2011 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: backblaze, backup, online

It’s not a matter of if your hard drive will fail, It’s a matter of when! Don’t wait until it’s to late. Leave no app behind, back them all up, now!

Let me highlight the key points first so you can decide if you wanna read on. Secure. Offsite. $5 a month. Unlimited backup space. Interested?

So, How exactly does BackBlaze work?

You download a tiny application that installs in three clicks and doesn’t require a credit card or any information to start using it. This internet backup application automatically finds all your photos, music, documents, and other irreplaceable files—no matter where they are on your hard drive—and compresses and securely encrypts them.

You can get the free trail here. backblaze.com (Intel Only, OS 10.5+)

Mac App Store get closer to seeing daylight.

By Luke On Dec 6, 2010 Apple | OS | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: app, OS X

“Inside sources” claim Apple has set December 13th as the official launch date for the upcoming Mac App Store. Mac App Store submissions started rolling into Apple around the 3rd of November. So the store it self should be fairly well stocked at the time of launch.

I love the idea of the Mac App Store simply for the fact that it will be so convenient to discover new apps. There is no doubt that all apps available for OS X will not be in the app store, but I believe it will still benefit the majority of OS X users.

The Mac App Store has another benefit as well, updates! All apps installed via the app store will also be able to receive updates directly through the app store. This centralized update hub should definitely help to keep everyone up to date with the freshest software release.

Apple to sell iLife, iWork apps individually

HyperDock: Increase the functionality of your dock!

By Luke On Sep 29, 2010 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: Dock, OS X, Software/Freeware

“HyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.” -bahoom.de

I would try explaining the full functionality of HyperDock, But the picture will sum it up better then I ever could.

It can see minimized windows and windows from other spaces and is fully drag & drop aware. I’ve been using the beta for only a couple of hours but I’m already addicted to the increased functionality it offers me!

Download the beta and learn even more about HyperDock from the developer.

Firefox Beta 4 for OS X! Really really fast!

By Luke On Jul 9, 2010 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: Firefox, HTML5, WebM

At first I was amazed and awed by Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. When it was first introduced back in 2004 it was very fast and pretty powerful. But after five years of using Firefox, it became old. It was getting bogged down and it frankly wasn’t as fast as Safari or Chrome in my experience.

Firefox 4 brings a lot of great new stuff to the table. It’s incredibly quick, due to new accelerated hardware support and the UI has been polished and simplified. It also comes with support for HTML5/WebM video. Allowing you to enjoy open HD quality video natively inside of Firefox. Improved crash protection also protects you from misbehaving plugins that usually crash the whole app, now only the plugin is affected, leaving you other work intact.

Other new features include:

WebGL – web standard that provides a 3D graphics API implemented in a web browser without the use of plug-ins
WebSockets - a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels (Makes page loading faster)
Web Console – web-based application that allows remote users to execute UNIX/Windows shell commands on a server, upload/download files to/from server, edit text files directly on a server, etc

You can find all the new features over at Firefox’s Beta 4 page.

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