How To Schedule The Opening of Apps

Mac OS X has got an application called "iCal" that let's you do all kinds of "calendar stuff", but also A LOT MORE. One example would be that it can: schedule the opening of a specific app(s).

How to make it do so?

1. Open iCal (Macintosh HD->Applications->iCal)
2. Make a new event (right click a date and choose "new event")
3. Get the information concerning the new event (make sure the new event is highlighted, then use: "command + i")
4. Change the name of your new event, then the date and time that you want to schedule the app to open, then choose: "Alarm->Open file->What ever application you want"
5. Under "Open file", click the "iCal", then click "Other..." then change it to "What ever application you want"
6. Now you can customize everything in the new event that you want to
7. Close the "New event" window

Congratulations! Now the application that you chose will automatically open at the time and date you chose!

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New Apple Features - Thunderbolt

For link on Apple's page: http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
For link on Intel's page: http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm

Thunderbolt is a new port made by Intel (USB 2.0, Firewire 800, USB 3.0) on the new MacBook Pros. It's up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0 and more than 12 times faster than Firewire 800 ( And still twice as fast as USB 3.0).

"One small port. One giant leap in possibilities.

MacBook Pro now gives you access to a world of high-resolution displays and high-speed peripherals with one compact port. That’s because Thunderbolt is based on two fundamental technologies: PCI Express and DisplayPort.

PCI Express is the technology that links all the high-performance components in a Mac. And it’s built into Thunderbolt. Which means you can connect external devices like RAID arrays and video capture solutions directly to MacBook Pro — and get PCI Express performance. That’s a first for notebooks. Thunderbolt also provides 10 watts of power to peripherals, so you can tackle workstation-class projects on the go. With PCI Express technology, you can use existing USB and FireWire peripherals — even connect to Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks — using simple adapters.

And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, the video standard for high-resolution displays, any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port. To connect a DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA display, just use an existing adapter."

Source: Apple's website

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"Powerful technology from a powerful collaboration.

Thunderbolt began at Intel Labs with a simple concept: create an incredibly fast input/output technology that just about anything can plug into. After close technical collaboration between Intel and Apple, Thunderbolt emerged from the lab to make its first appearance in MacBook Pro.

Intel co-invented USB and PCI Express, which have become widely adopted technologies for data transfer. Apple invented FireWire and was instrumental in popularizing USB. Their collective experience has made Thunderbolt the most powerful, most flexible I/O technology ever in a personal computer."

Source: Apple's website

Patch Notes - 20.12.2010 - 1.0.1

This is what I call a "patch"; when I change the background, change adress, change the name of the blog etc. The most important thing for you to know is that a patch means changement. This wasn't really my first patch, because the other ones were "betas"; they don't count:

• Changed the background
• Moved "Best Mac Apps (Free)" and "Best Mac Apps (Paid)" into a same page; "Best Mac Apps (Paid/Free)
• Moved "Best Mac Games (Free)" and "Best Mac Games (Paid)" into a same page; "Best Mac Games (Paid/Free)"

New Mac OS!!!

"We took our best thinking from Mac OS X and brought it to the iPhone. Then we took our best thinking from the iPhone and brought it to iPad. And now we’re bringing it all back to the Mac with our eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system. Mac OS X Lion arrives in summer 2011. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few of its features."


Apple

There is a new Mac OS (Operating System) coming in the summer of the year 2011. For link on official Apple webpage: http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/


The operating system will be called "Lion", as it's precedent was called "Snow Leopard, and it's precedent was called Leopard etc (...Tiger, Panther, Jaguar, Puma, Cheetah)


Description
Mac OSX Lion will be the best of all Mac OSs so far, because it is going to be a mixture of the hugely popular iOS and the highly advanced Mac OSX! 


Preview
Some of the things that we are allowed to know about this new OS:
Launchpad. A home for your apps.
Full-screen apps. A better way to enjoy the apps you love.
Mission Control. Mac command central.

Spotify, The Best Application There Is!

Spotify has gone to the lead in both the Best Paid and Free Mac Apps (as I remembered to post it here). If you still don't know what Spotify is, then you just got to check it out. You can listen to almost whatever music you want, and did I mention that it was "free and legal"? In fact, if you don't mind some adverts, then you don't have to pay anything, but if you want offline content and no adverts plus other pros, then you can pay for the Spotify Premium which is only about 5€/$ a month!

Added New Applications To "Best Free Mac Apps"

I just added some new freeware applications to Best Free Mac Apps, and this time I added my favorite 3 browsers --> Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox. I don't usually review all my applications, and I most probably never will have the time for it, but something tells me that "there are going to be reviews of all of the applications listed above".

Best Paid Mac Apps Page Added

This list will have a lot of cool stuff, and usually they don't even cost a lot. Many video/audio/photo editing software do cost quite a lot though, and that is why some people have started to get them illegally by downloading copyrighted software through torrents and other means. "I am in no way encouraging you to do the same, but just telling that it is quite easy". In order to support the good Mac software developers, I do suggest you to buy the licensed ones.

Some good examples of the Best Paid Mac Apps are Screenflow, Clusters and MacSpeech Dictate (International):