Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from April, 2011

Mac OS X Lion

The eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system brings our best thinking from iPhone and iPad to the Mac.   Mac App Store Mac OS X Lion includes the Mac App Store — the best place for users to discover, purchase, and download your apps. Millions of customers in over 90 countries can quickly and easily select from some of the best Mac apps conveniently on their Mac. Learn more about the Mac App Store and how you can introduce your apps to millions of users around the world. Learn more   Full Screen Apps Provide an immersive, focused user experience with a full screen app. NSApplication, NSWindow, and the NSWindowDelegate Protocol in Mac OS X Lion make it easy for you to create and manage full-screen user interfaces while providing you the power to design rich user interactions. Aqua Aqua defines the look and feel that users come to expect from Mac OS X. Lion takes this experience and brings it to a new level with popovers, overlay scrollbars, and p

Open Source Cloud Computing Software: Build, manage and deploy private & public clouds

  Cloud.com helps organizations quickly and easily  build, manage, and deploy private and public clouds. Extending beyond individual virtual machine images running on commodity hardware, the Cloud.com CloudStack provides an integrated software solution for delivering virtual data centers as a service – delivering all of the essential components used to build, deploy, and manage multi-tier and multi-tenant cloud applications in a simple to install software package. Because Cloud.com focuses on removing the complexity of cloud infrastructure by integrating all of the key components, customers realize instant efficiencies and without the overhead of integration, professional services, and complex deployment schedules. With CloudStack as the foundation for infrastructure clouds, data center operators can quickly and easily build cloud services within their existing infrastructure to offer on-demand, elastic cloud services. Cloud.com believes that cloud computing is a major shift and an e

Burn: Simple but advanced burning for Mac OS X

There are a lot of ways to approach burning discs. Burn keeps it simple, but still offers a lot of advanced options. Keep your files safe and share them. Burn your files to a disc so you can access them later on. Choose different filesystems so you can share your files with people with different operating systems. Change advanced settings like, file permissions, the disc icon, file dates and more on the fly in Burns inspector. Let the music be with you. Create standard Audio-CD discs with ease. Just drop your audio files in Burns audio list. Want more music on your disc, Burn can create MP3 discs. More and more players support these discs. Higher quality, no problem, Burn can create DVD-Audio discs, which can contain more and higher quality files. Burn offers advanced options like CD-Text and mp3 tag editing to personalize your disc. Share your movies. Made your own movies and want to share them with family and friends? No problem. Burn can create a wide range of video discs. F

Refinery: Customising your Mac has never been easier.

Revamp the Dock With Refinery , giving your Dock a whole new look is as simple as drag-and-drop. The Live Preview feature lets you see your changes as you make them, and you can export your favorite docks as Refinery Dock files, which you can import back into Refinery later. And it only takes one click to restore your Dock to its default state. Customize the FinderChange your Finder sidebar, toolbar, and alert icons easily with Refinery. Simply drag a new icon into Refinery, and press Apply to change the icon. You can also enable the viewing of hidden system files, enable a special path bar, as well as some other useful options, such as enabling the option to quit Finder from the menubar. Refine your System Have you ever wanted to change the background for the Login Window? Simply drop a new background into Refinery. Change the way screenshots are made, customize Crash Reporter, or change the Alert and Clipping icons. All of this and more is possible with Refinery. To res