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Review: Cardhop, Contact management jedi for macOS

Apple’s Contacts app (formerly Address Book) hasn’t changed much over the years. It’s pretty much a loose database of friends and family, offer the required functionality to support a centralized locations for email addresses, contacts, and phone numbers. But it feels like Apple was forced to make it, against its will. Luckily, Flexibits’ Cardhop picks […]

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Rare Apple WALT prototype goes for $8,000 on eBay

It’s somewhere between nostalgia and awesome and it just went for US8,000 on eBay yesterday. Per the cool cats at The Verge, a user posted an auction for an Apple WALT (Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone), a device introduced at Macworld Boston in 1993. WALT, like Newton, also had a touchscreen, a stylus, and handwriting recognition. […]

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Apple releases updated Mac OS X 10.7.3 beta to developer community

Apple on Tuesday issued a new beta version of Mac OS X 10.7.3, labeled build 11D36, to developers for testing. Per AppleInsider, sources familiar with Apple’s seed notes for the release, focus areas for the beta include iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The build was reportedly seeded with no known […]

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Cocktail 5.1.0 (Lion Edition) released

On Wednesday, shareware developer Maintain released version 5.1.0 of Cocktail (Lion Edition), Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added “Disable local snapshots” setting (System – Time Machine). – Added “Disable spelling correction” […]

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SpamSieve updated to 2.8.8

Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.8.8. The new version, an 8.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and improvements: – Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X. – Added support for Postbox 3.0. – Added support for Growl 1.3. – Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s […]