By James Wilson on August 17th, 2011

OS X 10.7.1 Ready for Consumption

Hot on the heels of the wailing and gnashing of teeth of 10.7.0 users, Apple today released OS X Lion 10.7.1 that addresses a few issues.

MacBook users will be pleased to know that any WiFi dropouts experienced after upgrading to Lion seem to have been resolved as well as freezes when playing videos in Safari.

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By James Wilson on March 26th, 2011

iOS 4.3.1 – What’s New

That’s right iOS lovers: Apple has released yet another update to iOS – in this case 4.3.1. The incremental update is a bug fixing update. It currently supports iPad 1, 2, iPhone 4 (GSM), iPhone 3GS and 4th-3rd Gen iPod Touch.

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By James Wilson on January 6th, 2011

Mac App Store, Twitter for Mac

What a way to start 2011! With all the tech buzz surrounding CES and the rush of new toys, some of us may have forgotten that tomorrow, Jan 7, the Mac App Store will be released. Rumoured to be delivered by Software Update, here at TechGeek we believe that installing all the latest updates will ensure that you receive the update as soon as it is publicly released. Mac OS 10.6.6 may also make its debut tomorrow to incorporate the new frameworks required to install apps via the Mac App Store.

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By James Wilson on August 12th, 2010

iOS 4.0.2 waiting to meet your iPhone, Apple Retail Store’s safe.

Well that was short-lived. After much publicity, the PDF exploit that jailbreakme.com utilises (that site and others) to jailbreak your iPhone has been fixed by the big A. Apple this morning released the 4.0.2 update to fix that specific issue. That is all. No antenna fixing issues. No 3G painkillers. Nothing. Just a PDF, font-subsystem fix to keep Apple’s iPhone and iOS happy. Oh, and to stop youngsters (both real and young-at-heart) from breaking Apple’s retail display iPhones.

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By James Wilson on June 21st, 2010

iOS 4: 9.00AM Pacific, 2.00AM AEST

Just a quick reminder that iOS 4 is expected to come out really early tomorrow morning (June 22 at 2.00AM AEST), 9.00AM Pacific Time (or so the rumors around the interwebs say). So don’t forget to mark your downloaders, iTunes, iCals, Alarms and whatever else wakes you up at 2 in the morning to get the latest iOS!

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By Stewart Wilson on November 29th, 2008

TECHGEEK Tip: HandBrake

Ever needed to convert a video for your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple TV or just simply, your computer? Never found a suitable program? Don’t want to fork out any money? Then HandBrake is for you!

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By Terence Huynh on November 4th, 2008

Want to Chrome Firefox?

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While Google Chrome and Firefox are arguably the two most popular browser alternatives to the monopolistic Internet Explorer (sorry Opera and Safari fanboys), why not merge the two into some weird, yet “sexy” (according to one comment) twist. Introduce Chromifox 2, a skin for Firefox 3 that makes it look like the Chrome browser. While you don’t get the “tabs being separate windows” feature or the tabs being on the top, you will get the customisation features of Firefox 3.

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