Keep your Macs Applications fresh…
September 11, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
I always looked for a program which tracks current versions of my installed software and tells me when there is an update available.
One day I found AppFresh, which does exactly this. It scans all local installed applications versus new updates and lets you conveniently install them right from inside AppFresh. Its currently in beta, but I use it at least for one year now and I am quite happy with it. Really recommended especially if you plan to upgrade to Snow Leopard soon.
Epson and Snow Leopard
September 9, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
Because I am still too busy working with my current main computer I haven’t upgraded it to Snow Leopard yet, but I just found an interesting link for Epson/Mac users. The money quote is:
Rosetta is required for the installation of the driver for the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 because of the old Vise installation software that Epson uses, not because of the driver itself. The driver for the 9900 is actually a native Snow Leopard driver.
Found it on Luminous Landscape.
Of course I am in Japan and have to install a Japanese driver for the Epson PX-5500, so I better wait a little while longer.
Snow Leopard: Software Update finally makes sense
August 29, 2009 by Juergen Specht · Leave a Comment
Apple’s Software Update dialog always nagged me, because the confirmation screen was so ambiguous.
Snow Leopard finally fixed it!
When there was an update available, it looked like this dialog, which is ok:
However, after you downloaded the update and it was installed, the dialog shown was practically the exact same:
The only difference was the small green check mark and the easy to miss text below. It still said “New software is available for your computer” and the only way to close the dialog was the small red dot in the top-right corner. Talk about ambiguity.
Since Apple issued software updates at least every 2 weeks in the last year and I have an unusual high amount of Mac’s, I saw this dialog about 100 times in the last year alone.
Snow Leopard finally made it right, see below:
Ah, thank you Apple. Was this really that difficult?
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