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Apple Mac, iPhone & iPad news for New Zealanders - Mac News
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac hardware, Apple Mac software and Apple Mac and iPhone accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and Mac-related products. - Futurology 223: body upgrades
News from the future every New Zealand Monday morning: New jaw printed — First sound recordings based on reading people’s minds — Video of the moon's far side — Fuel-saving cooking bags — Russian scientists prepare to explore most alien lake on Earth — Arctic comes to Europe — Mona Lisa's underdrawings reveal twin painting - Snow Leopard Security Update problems
Snow Leopard Security Update killing PowerPC Apps using Rosetta — How to set up Time Machine — Apple's Town Hall meeting emphasised corporate responsibility — Apple seeds new Safari build to developers — Sign up for a Dropbox Beta and get 5GB more space - Mac OS X updates
Mac OS X updates — Aspyr releases Rage Campaign Edition for Mac — Strange Apple event? Security update for Snow Leopard; update to Apple Remote Desktop SubRosaSoft.com - Final Cut Pro X comes right
Final Cut Pro X comes right — NZ FileMaker deals — Neil Young says Apple was considering a new music format - Airport Utility update
Airport Utility update — Final Cut Pro X gets big update — Apple pulls ahead of HP — Tim Cook's first major hire — and Hands on with the Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter - China outrage grows
China outrage grows — HP shamelessly copying Apple — First-time attendees weigh in on iWorld conference — Australian microphone for Mac — Mac superbundle - Futurology 222: Soldier undies & blindness cure
Hi tech soldier undies — Stem cells prevent blindness — You may be wired to disagree with [insert political ideology here] — One million spiders weave a cape — Mitochondrial Eve — Battery-free wireless mouse — A computer made some 'art' - Apple staff discounts
Tim Cook offers generous staff discounts — Former Apple exec says secrecy stifling Chinese labour moves — Macworld becoming iWorld — Next Adobe Lightroom offers goodness — Spotlight plugin allows InDesign searches - Apple breaks financial records
Apple breaks financial records — That little problem of US98 billion in cash — Apple having a 'Town Hall Meeting' — Upgrading your Mac's memory — Developers get another new OS X — The Macworld/iWorld conference — Bill Gates' last conversation with Jobs - First Dutch Apple Store
First Dutch Apple Store — Virgin Airlines' tribute to Steve Jobs — Lion internet recovery for MacBook Air — Wine lets you run Windows apps on Macs for free - iBooks Author
iBooks Author — Inside Apple book — Apple Stores for India — Apple stores within stores - Futurology 221: pop-up house
Self-inflating house — Map reveals emerging hot zones — Megabus — Martians throw rocks at Morocco — A broken writing arm changes your brain — Ultra-tiny nano-ear hears bacteria, viruses — Light mill could power our space travel — Time cloak could change the past - Apple's education event
Apple's education event in New York — Apple stock high — Seven years improvement in Mac mini - OS 10.7.3 is close
Apple has today released the next build of OSX 10.7.3 — Apple's organisational structure — Graphically Enhanced Manuals for Final Cut — Unexpected intrusion at Soho Apple store - iTunes Match, FM, Event
iTunes Match expands into 19 more countries — FileMaker's latest newsletter — Apple iMovie for interactive books? - Apple (finally) for fair labour
Apple makes move for fair labour — Apple's cash-back and recycling program hits Europe — Transparent Apple Store — Synium sale — The best way to run Windows on your Mac - Futurology 220: Pink planes & spider-silk
Silkworms create super spider webs — Pink WWII spy planes — Impossible crystals from outer space — Chair rocks to create its own light — A new test tells doctors what you're eating — Waves create a glittering glass beach - Greener cables
Apple going greener with change in cable production — Photo app arrives for the Mac — Adobe offers CS6 upgrade pricing for CS3, CS4 users — Syncing iCloud with Windows Outlook - Apple Event in the Big Apple
Apple Event announced — Six ways to give your Mac a cleaning — Mac sales growing, while US PC market still stagnates — Adobe plugs six critical holes in Reader — Logitech's Cube mouse 'tiny and capable' — FileMaker community - CEO Cook's salary
Jobs' salary $1, whereas Cook — Foxconn workers stage protest — Games on the Mac in 2012 — New seed of OS X — SSDs improve, increase and cost less and the rise of Thunderbolt peripherals — Snapseed coming to Mac App store - Apple action over Jobs action figure
Apple action over Jobs action figure — Organise and protect your new Apple gear — Apple sales for Asia — iAds hire is an Adobe guy — Logitech gets the jump on CES — Will iWeb live? - iMac still ascendent
Apple's next earnings call — ePublishing iWork program — iMacs almost one third of all-in-ones - Year of the Dragon
Apple Media Event in January? Mac Pro — Macworld's favourite 'Mac gems' of 2011 — Apple shopping event for Asia — Podcast using Mac tools you already have - Futurology 219: Goodbye 2011
New drug could cure everything from colds to HIV — Dutchmen's super flu — Airless wheel returns energy — Alzheimer's response to diet — 4000 pages of Isaac Newton’s personal notebooks — Neanderthal percentage test — Scientists learn the secret of a famous anti-superconductor — Sony's paper battery — Twitter-writing laser gun turns tweets into art — scientific breakthroughs of 2011 - End of 2011
End of 2011 site stats and info — Facial recognition - Apple's 2011
The biggest Apple stories of 2011 — Apple workers' free hoodies — Macworld's guide to cleaning your Mac — Baffled by routers, switches and hubs — Writing pure and simple — Free monthly Mac/iOS magazine in PDF form - Johnny PC comes lately
PCs to finally get Thunderbolt — Life after iWeb: web design and the Mac — What is iTunes Match, exactly? Apple gets fined in Italy — & 2011's bizarre Apple moments - Advice for new Macs
The end of the year is filled with advice — Five tips to make a new Mac user’s experience as pleasant as possible — Official iTunes Match for New Zealand — Stormtrooper humping in Apple Stores — New video card for Mac Pro - Jobs gets a Grammy
Jobs gets a Grammy — 33% off all Aspyr Mac games — iTunes Match FAQ – some 'obvious' Mac tips - iCloud phishers
Beware iCloud phishers — Emoji in Mac OS X — New version of Mac OS X seeded to developers — Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol splashed with Apple devices - Games, deals, news
Four Aspyr Mac game classics for only US$20 — Explosion at Apple assembler — MacTech event lineup — QuarkXPress 9.1 — Tools for managing business Macs — Apple exchanging new iPods for old — New Apple Television rumours - Logic
Logic Pro now in the App store — Apple a good place to work — Apple in search rankings — iTunes Match was not supposed to ship! Steve Jobs not Time's man of the year — Tips, Christmas and stuff - Retina display MacBooks
Retina Display MacBook Pro rumour — Apple's founding docs go for a mint — Apple weathers hard drive shortages — MacFamilyTree updates, discounts — Chrome updated - Apple's 'hobby'
Apple's 'hobby' and the set-top market — 'Steve Jobs – One Last Thing' now available — Jobs exhibit online — iTunes update - Crowd for new Store
Mac App Store downloads milestone — Huge crowd for Apple Store opening — Logic update — Aperture update — Must-have Mac apps for new Mac owners - Futurology 218: Welcome to Molybdenite Crevice
Earth core modelled — Evolution ... of riot gear — Massive asteroid is 'more like a planet' — Sway power has power to sway — Silicon alternative — UK wants a space-based radar system — Kepler 22b boosts SETI back into life - Apple Television iMac?
Apple Television? Perhaps it's the next iMac — TV shows via NZ iTunes at last? Apple MacBook component factory in China still shut down — Get your eWaste collected in Auckland — Macworld buying guide to Multifunction printers - Locations
Intel Ivy Bridge in new Macs — Apple revises, re-renders, spaceship campus — Images of the new Grand Central Apple Store — Jobs bio is Amazon's top seller — Facebook timeline now active in New Zealand - Online Steve Jobs museum
Online Steve Jobs exhibit — Affordable Mac lessons in Grey Lynn — Macworld | iWorld — Macworld explains the differences between printer types - Christmas bundles
Christmas bundles — iBus deal on data backups — Five awesome things you can do with Alfred — Mac Pro may live — Keynote update — New build of Lion seeded - Futurology 217: breakthroughs
Technique could result in molecule-thick circuit boards — HIV breakthrough — Hybrid light uses lens for solar light — Last lunar eclipse for a couple of years is December 10th — Print some bones — Flying robots build vertical village model — Glass keyboard, mouse - HP concedes
HP CEO says 'uncle' to Apple — New board member splashes out on Apple shares — Hungarian Steve Jobs stamp — Parallels Desktop vs Boot Camp - Things we do for X
Apple had 64-bit Final Cut ready, but scrapped it for X (rumour) — Safari update — Alfred reaches version 1.0 — Intego security softare in new Mac App Bundle - Apple, Wacom & MBA dock
Apple high in online sales — Wacom Inkling review — and MacBook Air dock to add connectivity features to the slender Air - 15-inch MacBook Air rumour
15-inch MacBook Air reportedly on track for Q1 2012, says rumour — Seagate's 4TB hard drive — Getting Apple's original papers - Futurology 216: undersea robo-trek & Mars
Robots swimming long distance for science — Robots reacting to your emotional state — Destination Mars — Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt — Cheap durable battery charges the grid — Min7 Micromouse Robot solved maze in 3.921 seconds - Apple discounts
Enjoy the season's lowest prices on Apple products — Discounts in the Mac App Store, too — Your Mac like your iPad — Original Mac OS icons - Black tomorrow
What Apple items will be discounted tomorrow? Mac users like more expensive hotel rooms — iCal alternative — and another Apple Television rumour — Intego security software sale - Annual online Apple sale
Annual online Apple sale — VMWare backtracks on Mac OS virtualisation — What DSLR camera? Macworld's buying guide - Thunderbolt, updates & news
Thunderbolt update — Apple TV update — New VMWare Fusion adds support for older OS versions — Microsoft entertains in new Store with a MacBook - Futurology 215: Apple's future mothership
Apple's coming mothership compared to others — New Canary Island — Paper wine bottles — Computer chip that emulates the human brain — Ethical meat — Body scanner cancer — Giant ice chunks to cool Mongolian capitol - Updates to FCPX, Nisus
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.2 brings several bug and compatibility fixes — Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.2 — Parallels Desktop 7 makes Windows-on-Mac fast, stable — AIM redesigned - Apple and the environment
Apple TV price drop — Apple and the environment — Apple names Levinson chairman, adds Disney chief to board — Another OS seeded to developers — How to tag, map, and label in iPhoto - Past Purchases now on in iTunes
Past Purchases now on in iTunes — 15-inch MacBook Air? Record Mac sales — iTunes Match overseas - iTunes Match
iTunes Match — iPod nano worldwide replacement program — New nature wallpapers — Gear guide for Macs — Siri-like voice capabilities on your Mac already exists - Futurology 214: Robot bosses
Robot Bosses — Japanese supercomputer #1 broke its own record — London becomes high speed 4G hotspot — High-tech fabric delivers drugs through the skin — Get ready for ecosystem collapse in the years ahead — A Cartography of the Anthropocene — New feature on Mars — New city bee species discovered — Carbon nanotubes bad for waterways — Satellites reveal Libya’s lost 2000-year-old cities — - Updates
MacBook Pro firmware update — Java update — Digital RAW update — Apple did something nice! Updates to AirPort devices — Steam got hacked - Text to speech on Macs
Text to speech on Macs Nuance Dragon Express for Mac in the Mac App Store lets you talk at your Mac while it types out your words - Apple climbs in Greenpeace guide
Apple moves ahead in Greenpeace’s gadget guide — Applications solve iCloud synching woes — New Polaroid instant camera brings back instant printing - Siri controlling Macs
Apple Stores instituting training on how to deal with unions — Siri controlling Macs — What comes after the MacBook Air? Zuckerberg reckons Jobs advised him on building Facebook - WiFi Sync vs iCloud
WiFi Sync vs iCloud — what's what? More Adobe apps come to Mac App store — Lost Jobs interview going on cinematic release - Futurology 213: Styley urban bees
Want a stylish beehive in your apartment? Vaccine against tooth decay — Fracking can cause earthquakes — Rice blood — Lost human species linked to East Asia — Paper-based explosives sensor made with an inkjet — Secret of ancient Viking navigation was transparent crystals - Apple introduces Easytheft
Apple introduces 'Easytheft' — excellent Nisus writing apps are now in the Mac App Store — Apple paying 'fair' corporate taxes — Apple seeds another Safari to developers - Major device revamp
Major Apple device revamp rumoured to be in the pipeline — Review of Sophos security software for Mac - Tim Cook making his mark
Tim Cook making his mark on Apple — Jobs' bio sells well - End of the Mac Pro?
Mac Pro threat — Hard drive production crippled by floods — New MacBook Pros feature updates that boost performance, value — Apple switchboard systems — No iTunes Match — Townshend slams iTunes - Mac updates & news
Aperture updated — Epson and HP printer updates — Apple investing in iCloud and retail — Apple buys second 3D mapping company — Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) now Open Source — NortonLive gets Mac support — True sync of iWork docs between Macs and iCloud - Futurology 212: Debris attack to spudcoat
DNA records childhood living conditions — 20 million tons of Japanese tsunami debris heading for Hawaii — Floating marine solar cells — Microbes could end the world — New font that helps dyslexics read with ease — Lefties have more sleep disorders — Rendering synthetic objects into old photographs — Spudcoat: use it, then plant it — - Enterprise urged to go Mac
Enterprise urged to get with the Mac or get run over — iPhoto fix — Two Mac updates — Pixelmator now in the App Store — Apple’s R&D spend up 33% for 2011 - Sun-powered Apple
Apple building solar farm for data centre — Latest Mac minis and MacBook Airs are 'Bluetooth Smart' — AppleBitch agrees with me about LaunchPad — Ten apps for the price of one — Cult of Mac's editor talks about his interview with Jobs' biographer — New MagBytes out tonight - Macworld/iWorld
Mid-2010 15-inch MacBook Pro video update —Apple TV update — Macworld Expo Rebranded as 'Macworld|iWorld' for 2012 - MacBook Pros updated
Apple updates MacBook Pros with better processors and graphics — Revelations and quotes from Jobs' bio — Entire Apple celebration of Jobs' life posted online — Blizzard unveils new Mists of Pandaria World of Warcraft expansion pack — iPod is ten - Futurology 211: Solar Apple
Apple solar patents — Amateur access to robot telescopes — Hottest average people on earth — New vaccine halves malaria risk — Scientists working on a tractor beam — Digital devices made from bacteria — Black Death DNA - MacBook Pro refresh?
MacBook Pro refresh — Mac Pro chip delay — MacBook case manufacturer combats stink — Jobs fave books and bands — Michelle Obama's first tweet (from a MacBook Pro, of course) — New Take Control of iCloud ebook - Apple stops for Jobs
Apple's CEO Tim Cook addresses the Apple campus in Steve Jobs celebration — Mac only light-field camera lets you focus later - Apple's fan tribute to Jobs
Apple's fan tribute to Jobs — Apple Q4 2011 earnings by the numbers — TUAW explains how to use EasyTimeline — Macworld explains common iCloud sign-up scenarios - iTunes 10.5
iTunes 10.5 helps you use iTunes less often — Bento File Exchange milestone — Aspyr's new Mac gaming site — Free System Preferences pane disables Resume feature for apps you choose — Dropbox and iCloud - Jobs from Post-it notes
Jobs from Post-it notes — Guy Kawasaki's lessons from Steve Jobs — Getting to grips with Lion's AutoSave — How to delete photos from the Photo Stream — Plant shutdown may affect Apple — Learn how to replace a colour in an image - Futurology 210: novel uses for 3D printing
Criminals find novel uses for 3D printing — Oil skimmer could be good for Rena-type disasters — Seven ways to recycle your eWaste — Quadriplegic controls robot arm with his mind — Scientists use carbon nanotubes to engineer powerful artificial muscles — Bizarre Martian plumbing intrigues - Lion 10.7.2's interface tweaks
Lion 10.7.2's interface tweaks — Launchpad icons got bigger — Desktop preferences now has iPhoto Places country flags and you can remove apps from purchase history in the Mac App Store - Macs blitz PC sales
Apple has been destroying PC sales — British ITV switches to Mac — Safari 5.1.1 faster — Big year for Apple leads to a week off — MobileMe becomes iCloud, multiple ID merges not possible — Who is Scott Forstall? - iCloud to the desktop
Apple brings iCloud to the desktop with OS X 10.7.2 — iTunes in the cloud now international — Apple Releases Lion Recovery Update — iPhoto 9.2 — Why did Steve Jobs wear turtle necks? Get rid of your metal and computers for free in Auckland - Mythbusters on Jobs
Mythbusters' Savage & Hyneman to host Steve Jobs retrospective on Discovery — Steve Jobs' death certificate — iTunes out for the cloud - Jobs' legacy
Jobs' legacy — Windows gaming in OS X with Parallels 7 — What is iCloud? And how to convert PDFs to Word (and other formats) - Steve Jobs
Statement from Jobs' family — online reactions — Apple users honour Steve — reaction from Pixar — Jobs' authorised biography moved forward - Steve Jobs died today
Steve Jobs died today - iDevice news
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of linked Apple iPhone and iPad news in New Zealand, covering hardware and software. - Fringe film app fest
Fringe film festival via NZ app — Apple releases update for iBooks 2 — Nooka’s mystery dial watches get iPhone app — New iPad case with keys gets the nod — Take the new macnz poll and be in to win iPad 2 cases - Apple 3rd in smartphones worldwide
Apple now third in worldwide smartphone shipments — 6Wunderkinder — New iPhone saved for WWDC — Avid's movie app — Runkeeper releases new apps — Small NZ company Kiwa Media competes with Disney - Most of iPhone in the US
Most of iPhone made in the US — Straight talk for businesses considering an iOS app — Steam app — Quad-core iPad 3 possibility — Canadian Android users prefer one night stands — Tweet game play - iPad 3 for Dummies
iPad 3 for Dummies — iPhone 5 creates queues in China — Pixlr-o-matic has great effects — NASA releases game — If you use iOS, you need VIPOrbit - iPad connections
Connecting across the world with iPads — Microsoft pays for Wisconsin school iPads — Flaming Lips duet with Siri - Big & beautiful
Infinity Blade II 'big and beautiful' — Apple program lets businesses buy apps in bulk — Business data dominated by Apple - Biggest iPhone quarter ever
Biggest iPhone quarter ever — Apple surpasses Google in smartphones — Evi not Siri, but impresses nonetheless — iPhone cakes - Voice ins and outs
Siri, send me three ... And if you can't run Siri — Apple buys the most semiconductors — Experts consider iPads in the classroom - Enter the dragon
New iPhone needs a new battery — Epson launches wireless projection app for iOS devices — New iTunes U App — Angry Birds Year of the Dragon — Directly getting images off iDevices — Macworld's productivity app guide - Reminders
How to use the iOS Reminders app — iPad guitar — Pocketable Campus security - General Electric's iPhone love
General Electric loves its iPhones — Facebook code appears again in iOS beta — iPhone 4S derailed the rise of Android - Woz likes Android
Android for techies, iPhone for the rest — How fast is your iPhone, online? Workers ditching laptops for iPads - High-res, quad-core LTE iPad 3
High-res, quad-core LTE iPad 3 production 'underway' — Next iPhone could be waterproof — Ex-Mac clone maker makes device-buying robots — iPhone vs Android wordy stoush — Windows works surprisingly well on iPads with OnLive Desktop - Microsoft Office on iPad
Unruly crowds halt iPhone sales in Chinese stores — How does Apple fit into digital education? Microsoft Office on iPad — Image Blender - Top online shopping
Apple’s online store tops mobile shopper satisfaction survey — Intel talking to Apple about mobile chips — Chinese crowds 12 hours before iPhone 4S launch - Apple vs Samsung
Apple vs Samsung and the reality of the Android ecosystem — 5.1 Beta 3 restores 3G toggle, hints at iPod, iPad dictation — More rumours of successor iPads — Instagram’s website gets 300M page views per month — iRig Mix hardware – NZ App success - iPhone 4S audio issue
iPhone 4S audio issue in calls — Manage iCloud storage — Microsoft 'bribing' dealers to sell Windows Phones — iPhone saves hiker with built-in light — Five things loved and hated about Android - iPads and apps
Apple media event about iPads in the classroom? One million Bentos — iPad apps still selling like hotcakes — iPhone 4S for China and 21 other countries — More app calorie counters - Ideas for 2012
New display for iPad 3 — What GigaOm reckons we'll get from Apple in 2012 — Modding Grand Theft Auto — Getting fit after Christmas — Apple’s long silence on call mute issue - Spoiled iPhone kids on Twitter
Spoiled iPhone kids on Twitter — Instagram spike — Two Belkin add-ons for iOS cameras — Kindles selling well — Two new iPads rumour - iPad to run Britain
iPad to run Britain — App Store hits five million downloads daily - Apple's good Xmas
Apple had a really good Christmas — Learn to code iOS with two-course combo — Completely redesigned iPhone 5 — Expanded iPhone plants - Advice for new to iOS
New iDevice? What to do — iPad 3 — Adobe EchoSign for iDevice - Deals, news & tips
Law and Order game for iOS — Two-screen gaming, iOS & Mac — LogMeIn provides free remote Mac access from iOS devices — Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie — iMAME Arcade emulator available now, but not for long? Kindle app update adds book purchases - Games 'n' security
Gameloft iOS game sale — Batman Arkham City Lockdown for iOS update — Personal Mobile Security discounted - Find & Fax apps impress
Get your app built by Carnival Labs in competition — Videos transcoded for iPad — Apple's A5 chip being made in Texas — Localscope gets sensational update — App sends faxes — Apple buys Anobit — Apple’s tablet share slides, still beats closest competitor by 10M units — Siri playing Beethoven - Tips
Grand Theft Auto III on the iPad works really well — iOS 5 gave Safari Private Browsing — Searching on 'iPhone 5' — Magic guitar for iPhone — Tips! - Win an app build, NZ iTunes Match
Win an app build iTunes Match appears in NZ Apple Store — Rockmate bargain - Apple's chip expertise
Analyst says Intel lags behind Apple in mobile chips — Illustrated history of iOS — Skulls app — Solar Walk — Microsoft ramping up its app offerings — Macworld's guide to iPad keyboards — 10 iOS tips tomorrow - Case speaker project
Microsoft app for iPad — Kickstarter project puts speaker in an iPad case — Apple has released iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to developers — Changes to iAd — Stimulation of paid app downloads — Message data collected 'by mistake' - Yellow Submarine
App poll — app for lunar eclipses — Beatles Yellow Submarine book exclusive on Apple's iBookstore - Christmassy
12 Days of Christmas ... for some — Apple has released a ’12 Days of Christmas’ app on the UK App Store Microsoft has released an official, free Xbox Live iOS app - Self checkout
Self checkout — Flipboard for iPhone — iBooks update adds night mode — Grand Theft Auto III coming to the iPhone and iPad - Android Store
Melbourne opens Android Store — The threat of Samsung — Dell pulls tablet — Microscope photography accessory — EA Games lets some go for free before Christmas — Five tips for using Siri without annoying people - Carrier IG dumping
Apple says it dumped Carrier IQ software in iOS 5 — Infinity Blade 2 review — Alpine, Little Bear ... Apple's internal names for versions of iOS — Siri dictates emoticons — iPhone alert icons and what they mean — GarageBand for making ringtones — New eBooks tell you more - Infinity Blade II & Siri satisfaction
Infinity Blade II is out — Siri satisfies iPhone 4S users — Battery cases catching fire — Keylogger discovered on iPhones — Obama uses a DODOcase for his iPad - Android logs everything
Android logs everything you do — TED app — Galaxy Tab back on sale in OZ — Microsoft Office for iPad — Six Guns trailer - iPhone, Android, RIM
Nexus from iPhone — Why you can’t use your iPhone during take-off — RIM starts making iOS software — Rolling Stone magazine for iPad, after Beatles — Inside History for iPad — Super speedy iPad cling case — iOS 5.1 beta - iCamera
iCam turns iPhone into a dedicated camera — 4-inch screens for Apple heading for ... what? iPhone 4S puts Apple back in UK growth - Poetry
China overtakes US in smartphone shipments — Poetic and lyrical voices in your ear — Gorgeous trailer for new Infinity Blade - Cable release for iPhone camera
Cable release for iPhone — Samsung Galaxy S II advertisement one of the most controversial conversations going on right now – see the video spot and take the poll - Black Friday apps
Using your iDevice to shop on Black Friday — Apple blowing away Android with up to 90% of app revenue — Thinner iPad 3? Vegetarian apps - iPhone already dominates business
iPhone already dominates business — Occupy Flash — Kindle vs iPad — iPad now swipes through App Store panels — iPad text editor gets rave review - Apps & famous photog
Blackberry losing ground to iPhone in enterprise — Gmail app comeback — Minecraft app — Annie Leibovitz recommends iPhone as a camera - iPhone 4S service dropouts
iPhone 4S service dropouts — How well does it AirPlay? Free iTunes dev course on iTunes — Presenting ... the Living Room PC: It's an iPad - iPad in 396 metre drop
iPad survives 396 metre drop — GarageBand for iPad gets 5-star review — Apple's AssistiveTouch means easier smartphone use — Adobe explains why Flash died — Pink Floyd App — Developer cuts prices, maintains income - Battery bugs
Apple to continue looking into iOS 5 battery bugs — Pad controlled Terrarium — Location-based messages - iOS 5.0.1
Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 update to fix battery issues in iPhone 4S — iPhone 'slide to unlock' used in Amnesty campaign — Cookbook sells 'like crazy' — Got a 4S yet? Siri tips and tricks — Hands on with iOS over-the-air updates - iPhone 4S on sale in NZ today
iPhone 4S on sale — The end of Mobile Flash — The Norwegian who would sell Siri — Using iCloud with iWork for iOS — iPads not getting much use — AnchorFree Hotspot Shield for iOS protects browsing, crunches data - Adobe drops Mobile Flash
Adobe drops Mobile Flash — TomTom gifts 30 days — Apple not planning on making Siri work on other iDevices — iAd Producer 2 - iPads help kids learn
iPads help kids learn — iPhone top-selling US smartphone — Consumer Reports says 4S fixed antenna issue, but ... Switching from Android to iOS — Dr Who App — Shuffler music blog app - iPhone 4S & Siri on other iDevices
iPhone 4S demand remains strong — Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 Beta 2 to developers — Siri on other iDevices — New tablet has higher specs than iPad — Apple supposed to halt sales in Germany — Apple vs Google heating up - Siri outage
Siri went down in the US — Digg millionaire launches Oink — Bracelet does health monitoring — Native Instruments debuts first iOS app, iMaschine - Newsstand
Newsstand a huge success — Battery fix update for iPhone 4S coming in “a few weeks” — Apple targets iPhone4S.com, misleading porn domains — Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 beta to developers — Wunderkit — Siri's Impact on Data Usage Examined - In-device payments
Apple to advance retail with an app — Payments solution for all payments — GarageBand on iPhone adds features — Google releases custom Gmail app — Wired releases app guide magazine for iPad - iPhone 4S in NZ 11th November
iPhone 4S in New Zealand 11th November — Thanks to iPhone 4S, iOS market share rockets in October — GarageBand now on iPhone, touch — TUAW's NZ correspondent instructs how not to buy an iPhone overseas - New 4S ads
Three new apple ads show iPhone 4S — The Independent UK newspaper launches iPad app — Plex gets Windows client, cloud service, media sharing — Mark multiple emails as read — Getting fit with apps - New app successes
Adobe Carousel on an iDevice — Mint is out — SoundCloud reaches 8 million users — Siri can update facebook and twitter — Hands on with Apple's Cards app — Games and simulations app - Links & Info
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac and iPhone hardware, Apple Mac and iPhone software and Apple Mac accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and iPhone, and related, products. - NZ Apple Links
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac and iPhone hardware, Apple Mac and iPhone software and Apple Mac accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and iPhone, and related, products. - Reviews
The latest Apple Mac and Apple-related hardware and software reviewed for New Zealand and global Mac users - Corel AfterShot Pro 1.0.0.9
Corel has entered the professional and prosumer photo wrangling market with some new software - iPhone 4S
Armistice Day brought the iPhone 4S to New Zealand. I've had a week with it, and here's what I found. - Philips O'Neill Stretch headphones
Philips has collaborated with O’Neill, the surfboard maker, to create some headphones (three models, Stretch, Specked earbuds and Snug) that suit the active outdoors life more. That, married to an impressive set of sound reproduction specifications, means the Stretch headphones are worth a good look. - Philips Fidelio DS8550
Industrial design is oh so important, and Apple gets criticised for dumbing down devices for the sake of slick products. But I love that. I’m so used to Apple devices, it’s a shock when I have to struggle with a product from another brand – why does a DVD player need to be hard to use? But Philips has made something good here, that works well with an iDevice - Iomega Mac Companion 2TB hard drive
Back in the day, Iomega was a solid supporter of the Apple world – their Bernoulli drives and then Zip disks must have graced every Mac toting agency in the world, and although they also made products for PCs, they were regarded as the Mac friendly go-to guys for hard drives and portable storage. - NetSpot
I don't normally review Beta software, but this one's free while in Beta and it shows a handy map of your WiFi signal strength so you can see exactly what's what with your wireless network. - Final Cut Pro X
This is probably my longest review yet, at over 5000 words, but there's a lot to cover! At end, though: I love this version, despite its failings. There's far, far more good than bad. - ArcticSound P281 headphones
A budget set of headphones from Arctic sound surprisingly good - Arctic Sound E361-BM earbuds with microphone
Based in Switzerland, Arctic Cooling's new E361-BM earbuds are stylish and reproduce detailed sound with great accuracy - Arctic E352 earbuds
Wooden earbuds from Arctic Cooling promise more bass - Dragon Dictate
Some have a dream – that they can sit there and chat to their Mac and the words appear as text on a screen. This dream is not a dream – not with Dragon Dictate. - Kanex iAdapt V2 Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor
Ever wanted to plug your Mac – most likely a laptop – into an HD TV? Sometimes when I am presenting, I find TVs installed instead of projectors. Or you might just want to use that lovely HD LCD TV you have to show a movie or a slideshow. Now you can. - JVC Everio GSTD1 3D video camera
JVC’s first consumer 3D camcorder is an interesting looking beast – it has two lenses in its wide (but still handy) body. So from the front it looks rather like Wal-E. It shoots 3D video in full HD. - Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
The new PowerShot SX30 IS is the world’s first digital compact camera to house a huge super telephoto 35x zoom. In the old-fashioned nomenclature of analogue photography, this is equivalent to a 24mm ‘wide-angle’ lens that zooms in to 300mm (and further, with digital zoom, but who uses that?). - a-JAYS four earbuds with mic & remote
Flat, black, tangle free cord, stylish speakers and an easy to handle remote control for iPhone - Stellar Phoenix Macintosh 4.1
Have you ever lost files? Usually this is inadvertent – you put them in the trash. Then you emptied it. Can you raise these files from the ashes? Fortunately, yes – and here's a new option - v-JAYS Heavy Duty Bass Speakers
The v-JAYS Heavy Duty Bass Speakers are actually Swedish-designed headphones. They have Mylar speakers in the headpieces. With a light, sturdy frame and square, rounded-corner speakers, they are elegant and unobtrusive - NVS iPad case
Looking like a large well-padded wallet when closed, this new-to-NZ hand-made leather NVS case opens up to allow setting the screen in any of four angles in wide-screen orientation, or you can stand it on one side for an upright, portrait view. - t-JAYS Three earbuds
A premium earbud under the microscope – how do the more expensive earbuds from Sweden stack up? They have better bass and more accessories, including a travel case, the same range of earbud sleeves for a perfect fit and they're loud. - a-JAYS One review
New Swedish-origin JAYS earbuds and headphones are now available in New Zealand. They are black, well-made and sound pretty good. Here's the first of three reviews of these slinky black devices. - Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700
MacBooks and other laptops get warm – even hot, depending on use and conditions. Running Final Cut Pro – or even iTunes sometimes – can really get the fans to spin-up and work overtime. - Microsoft Office:Mac 2011
Microsoft is caught with any Mac release in two ways. Firstly, all those PC switchers and/or those who use a PC at work, say, and a Mac at home want the experience to be extremely similar, both for the sake of ease of use, and for productivity. This is a most reasonable expectation, and if Microsoft’s assertion that a billion Macs and PCs are running Office in one form or another is true, it's certainly an expectation with considerable weight! - FutureMouse Swiftpoint
Kiwi ingenuity – designed in Christchurch and made in Thailand, the Swiftpoint promises to be a revolutionary device. For one thing, it’s tiny – with is partly the point. It’s so small you can happily use it on the space below the keyboard and beside the central trackpad on most laptops, and most definitely this is the case for all Apple laptops - 27-inch i7 iMac
I recently checked out the latest new iMac, a top-of-the-line 2.93GHz with the bigger 2TB traditional-style hard drive fitted (not the SSD) and 12GB RAM. It took seven days to arrive once ordered, outfitted and shipped direct from China. You can track these purchases online (shipping is free) as they approach, which is cool. - Epson Workforce 633
What everyone seems to want these days is the ability to print from iPads, iPod touches and iPhones – with the increasing use of workday applications on, particularly, iPads, you can imagine why – a printout of that Numbers spreadsheet, for example. This printer handles that fine. - Clickfree C2 Automatic backup
The C2 is another all-in-one design with the USB cable built right in, except this time it’s a hard drive. It offers the usual Clickfree automatic backup of PC or Mac computers, along with iPod music and playlist import - Clickfree Traveller
The Clickfree Traveler is a sleek, automatic backup solution that’s in between the size of a credit card and a postcard, and it’s only about 2mm thick. With a brushed aluminium chassis, it suits the Pro Macs in looks. - Clickfree backup devices
Canadian company Clickfree, inventors of ‘effortless computer backup’, has just launched four feature-rich, simple-to-use backup solutions on the New Zealand market. Clickfree products are able to backup multiple computers, networks and mobile storage devices, like the iPod, iPad and iPhone easily and effortlessly. - Drive Genius 3
It’s always in your interests to monitor and check the condition of your Mac’s hard drive, and while the free Apple Disk Utility in your Utilities' folder inside the Applications' folder can do the basics, if you want more, or continuous monitoring, you should be looking further afield. - Lexar Echo ZE 16GB USB drive
Little tiny USB drive packs in the Gigabytes. Physically, ‘thumb drives’ are usually about the size of a thumb, logically enough. But this thing is about the size of a thumb nail! Despite that, it holds a very impressive 16GBs of data. - iRig guitar interface
Since an iPhone (and an iPod touch, for that matter) is a computer, and because it’s so portable, with a couple of little add-ons, it becomes oh, so much more. Most add-ons are apps, of course, like the iStethoscope that 3 million doctors have already downloaded – you can literally use your iPhone as a stethoscope for $1.29. A few add-ons, though, are physical, like this little iRig device from IK Multimedia. - Arctic sound speakers & headphones
Some OK little speakers, a not-great-for-Mac gaming headset, but wonderful Bluetooth ’phones - Flip Boom All Star
This software aims to make it easy to animate, with a set of characters to get you started. And it is easy to use – drag-and-drop easy. - Four products in one review
Short reviews: This stuff has been building up on me so I decided to do them all in one review: Blue Lounge CableDrop multipurpose cable clips; Australian SmirkAbout budsocks, SmirkAbout iPhone and iPod skins and Norton Internet security for Mac and Windows - Review – Adobe Indesign CS5
When I started this, I thought 'great, should be able to knock this review off in no time, it looks almost the same as the CS4 version'. Nope! A week later, I am surprised and pleased to say that's not the case. This new version is close enough that you can keep working without noticing much difference, but when you do start noticing, you'll be very pleasantly surprised. - Adobe CS5: Photoshop v12
Adobe's new Creative Suite 5 is full of features that will make you work faster, more efficiently and collaborate more easily. I start the reviews with Photoshop, which reaches v12 in this incarnation. - 15-inch i7 MacBook Pro, May 2010
My 2007 MacBook Pro, which I was so proud of three years ago, looks decidedly dated beside the new i7 version. It has a slightly lower profile with the lid closed, more rounded corners to slip into a bag more easily, and its slick, shiny screen is surrounded by the black bezel. - Canon G11 pro-pocketable
My everyday camera has been a Canon PowerShot G6, a 7.1 megapixel prosumer point and shoot I have been using constantly for nearly five years. The latest in the series, the G11, also gets the ‘prosumer’ title due to its features, high-end processor and the ability to shoot manually (with caveats). - Canon IXUS 200 IS
Canon's new range of compacts features some touch-screen models like this IXUS 200 IS. It's amazing what Canon can pack all this into such small yet such a competent camera - Phitek Black Box M10 headphones
Phitek Black Box M10 Noise Cancellation headphones take the pain out of air travel while delivering excellent sound quality - Apple Aperture 3
Two-hundred new features sounds pretty impressive for any software, and it’s hard to imagine how many you could add to what’s basically a pro version of iPhoto. But Apple managed it, for sure. - Intego VirusBarrier X6
Another entry into the flashy, powerful Mac antivirus arsenal is Intego VirusBarrier X6. And it does seem to be all those things (both flashy and powerful). - Review data Rescue 3
I have used Data Rescue in previous versions to restore a lecturer’s lost high-resolution photographs that were inadvertently trashed. What a Godsend! Here's the latest version ... - Sims 3 World Adventures
The Sims is one of the few extremely successful computer games with a significant female following, plus simultaneous Mac and PC releases. The first of the Sims 3 expansion packs is World Adventures. Ary Jansen has been reviewing The Sims for national magazines since she was 12 – here's her take on this new game extender exclusively for mac-nz. - Snow Leopard Server
The idea with a server is that it’s on all the time, doing its … you know, serving. That’s why a server is normally installed on a standalone computer that’s not doing anything else, although it is possible to use it as your Mac, as the typical Apple apps are all there, just like on any other OS X Mac, (apart from iLife) along with some extra server tools. - Early 2009 Mac Pro Quad Core
The benchmark for all Apple machines is the Mac Pro. And it's heavy enough to mark some benches, too. Whereas you may, these days, see the occasionally iMac in pro studios, you’re much more likely to see a great big visual statement of the aluminium tower, purring away in its austere beauty. - 21.5-inch iMac review
Containing a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU with 4GB RAM wrapped in shiny 21.5-inch goodness, this is the bottom model of the iMacs. - Snow Leopard & file sharing review
Written by Glenn Fleishman, edited by Tonya Engst (Version 1.0, published October 2009 by TidBITS Publishing Inc). - Elements 8
Adobe has released a new version of its consumer image editing software for Mac. - STM Latte 13-inch laptop bag
A chic, stylish but oh-so-practical laptop bag from STM in Australia - Canon PIXMA MP550
Canon PIXMA MP550 has a self-opening paper tray and a new integrated easy-scroll wheel - Apple Final Cut Pro 7 #1
Final Cut Pro is top class film editing software used on everything up to full cinematic releases - Apple Final Cut Studio #2
Final Cut Studio review part 2 — the auxiliary apps Soundtrack, Cinema Tools, Compressor. Motion & DVD Studio Pro - Newsletter
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac and iPhone hardware, Apple Mac and iPhone/iPad software and Apple Mac accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and iPhone, and related, products. MagBytes is culled from the mac-nz services and contains all the month's tips collated into an indispensable form. - Mac maintenance
I have posted these tips for reference in case you are worried about your Mac. They're both free software maintenance routines you can use, supplied by Apple. You should bookmark this page! - Apple Mac tips
mac-nz's Apple Mac tips: From hardware to software, check this tip section to help make your Mac more fruitful. This tips compendium keeps growing grow as I find more to help you with your Mac life. Note that Apple posts video tips related to business use here. - Where are the tips?
Just ask for the MagBytes monthly free mac-nz PDF newsletter – all the tips are compiled in there, so if you miss the Five Tip Friday tips or you want a refresher, everything is OK; they're all available in a form you can refer back to. - Viruses & malware
mac-nz carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac and iPhone hardware, Apple Mac and iPhone software and Apple Mac accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and iPhone, and related, products. So far there are no tangible viruses for the Apple Mac platform. - Interviews
Interviews with Mac developers, users, personalities and more - Michael Lopp – 8 years at Apple
Michael recently wrote the book Being Geek (a career handbook for geeks and nerds). He also wrote Managing Humans that explains that while you might be rewarded for your products, you will only be successful because of your people. He's a Silicon Valley man born and bred, and recently worked for Apple. - Don McGlashan, Dean Spanley & Macs
I was enchanted by the movie Dean Spanley, and the soundtrack played a big part in that enchantment. So I asked musician-composer Don McGlashan about that, and about the Macs in his life. - Kiwa Media, the iPad & QBook
With the iPad, Apple could become a leading intermediary for the publishing business, as it largely has for the music industry. Magazine and newspaper publishers have been working on iPad editions for months already. Over here in Auckland, Kiwa Media has been working on an iPad book solution for a year – just read this fascinating interview with Luke Tomes. - Bruce Ferguson of darkroom.tv
Bruce Ferguson of darkroom.tv – audio-visuals ‘to the Macs’ – As the final moments of Webstock finished, a tremendous show was projected onto the end wall of the Wellington Town Hall. It not only encompassed (indeed, used) the massive Wellington Town Hall pipe organ, it was tailored to fit every alcove in the wall behind as well. I found out how it was done – using Macs, of course. (Pic – L-R Shaun, Mike and Bruce) - Interview: futurist Mark Pesce
Mark Pesce (pronounced, I believe, ‘peshi’) worked in California as a networking coder for Apple in the 1980s and ’90s then went on to invent virtual reality patents. After moving to Australia, he has been working with media and business professionals to integrate the lessons of the first decade of the web into 21st-century business practices using social media and other tech phenomena. - Brian Fring on iPhone, iPad & the future
Brian Fling of Seattle is an expert on mobile app design and implementation across platforms. An abridged version of this interview is on Mac Planet on the NZ Herald – this is the full, fascinating interview covering mobile apps, iPhone and iPad. It's fascinating insight into mobile apps and the future of technology - Eric Wilfrid, Microsoft Mac BU
Eric Wilfrid of Microsoft started programming in BASIC when he was eight. Now he heads the Mac Business Unit. - About Me
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Affordable, comprehensive Mac training. Mark Webster is a well known, well-informed Apple specialist trainer who writes on Apple and tech topics for the NZ Herald. This site, mac-nz.com, carries one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac and iPhone hardware, Apple Mac and iPhone software and Apple Mac accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and iPhone, and related, products. - Poll
mac-nz polls ~ checking the pulse of NZ Mac users - Contact mac-nz
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