Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Question Asked: When Does Snow Leopard Come Out?
According to Apple, September 2009.
They haven’t announced the exact day yet, though employees at my local Apple store seem to think it’s going to be early in the month, opposed to towards the end.
If you haven’t seen the new features of Snow Leopard yet, you should definitely check out Apple’s OSX page. It seems like it’s going to be a pretty substantial upgrade.
Question Asked: How Can I Lock My Mac?
Locking your computer when you’re not at it is one thing that Windows does out of the box that OS X doesn’t. You can lock your Mac though, don’t worry. You just need to do a few things first.
For starters, you need to enable fast user switching.
To turn on fast user switching, open the System Preferences and click on theAccounts icon under the System category. Click on Login Options near the lower left and click the Enable fast user switching checkbox.
Fast User Switching
Once activated, you’ll be able to click on the Accounts icon in the top right corner of your computer, and select “Show Login Screen.”
This won’t log you out, but will make it appear that you have. Keep in mind that if someone else has an account on your Mac, and they login from the login screen, you’ll get logged out.
If you prefer a simpler way to lock the mac, once Fast User Switching is turned on, I’d recommend checking out MacLoc (link).
MacLoc is a small, lightweight program that enables the Fast User Switching to happen without having to mouse up to that corner, and select the login screen option.
You can set MacLoc to be opened with some keyboard shortcuts, as well.
Question Asked: Can I Use More Than One Airport Express At a Time?
Absolutely.
You can configure as many Airport Expresses on your home network as you want to. Whether you’re using them to extend your wireless network, or to stream music through iTunes, there’s no limit.
Just be sure to configure them with different names, when you’re setting them up. This way you know which one’s which, when setting iTunes to stream music to another room.
Question Asked: When Does The New iPhone Come Out?
Technically, as of yet, there is no “new” iPhone. Apple hasn’t made the announcement yet. However, there’s tons of rumors flying around the internet about when, and how, and where, and how much.
Though nothing’s confirmed, yet, the new iPhone is expected to be announced on June 8th, at a conference that Apple is holding.
This is generally the time of year when they announce new products, and discontinue old ones. That’s why people are so sure that they’ll be a new version.
It’s likely that if announced on Monday, that the new iPhone wouldn’t hit the streets until August at the earliest, based on past years.
Question Asked: Why Did Microsoft Stop Making Outlook for Macs?
After installing Office 2008 on a Mac for a friend of mine recently, I asked myself the same thing. I pondered “What the hell is Entourage doing in place of Outlook?”, so I looked it up.
Apparently, Outlook on Macs was only being used by 7% of Mac users, mostly corporate settings, in conjunction with Exchange.
When time came to develop a new version of Office, Microsoft weighted the cost of developing a new version, verses how many people would use it, and decided that it wasn’t cost effective to make a new version.
Entourage (which is very similar to Mac Mail) was used in its place, because it was already developed for Mac.