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 | Apple's steady march to releasing OS X Lion is in the news this week. With the first Gold Master candidate released to developers, Apple is on the path for a mid-July release. One of the things that interests me is, will the Apple servers hold up to all the people downloading Lion from the Mac App Store? This week's newsletter includes an answer to a reader who wanted to use last week's talking Terminal tip to get his Mac to talk to him at startup. I've included an article that will let you do just that. | |
Apple Releases GM Version of Lion to Developers
Apple has released the GM (Golden Master) version of Lion to developers for what will be the last shakedown for bugs before the new OS is released. This means that Apple's official release of Lion is near, perhaps the second or third week of July (I'm thinking the second week). Will you be upgrading to Lion? Stop on by and take our poll. If you will be upgrading, we'll have guides to various methods you can use to do it, including basic upgrades, clean installs, and a few more that may surprise you... Read more
| Adding Startup Sounds to Your Mac
Have you ever wanted your Mac to greet you by name every morning when you turn it on? Or perhaps play a familiar tune to say hello? That's the request I received after last week's newsletter, where I included instructions on how to get your Mac to talk using the Terminal application. Well, by taking advantage of the way Automator can be used to wrap a Terminal command to turn it into an application, it's a very simple matter to create a method to have your Mac speak at startup. Even if you're not interested in having a talkative Mac, you may find the technique of using Automator to create an application one that you can put to good use... Read more
| Using Your Mac In Your Home Theater
Have you thought about using your Mac as part of your home theater system, or perhaps using it as your home theater system? With all of the streaming options available for watching TV and movies, your Mac can be the centerpiece of your entertainment system... Read more
| Optimize Parallels Desktop
Optimizing Parallels Desktop for Mac for the best performance of a guest OS may seem to be largely a matter of customizing the performance of the guest OS itself, such as turning off visual effects in various Windows OSes. But before you start fine-tuning your Windows or other guest OS, you should first give the Parallels guest OS configuration options a tune-up. Only then can you get the best results from a guest OS... Read more
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