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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0.

Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

Announcing SushiReader 1.0.0, an application that I've build for news junkies like me.

SushiReader is a simple river-of-news style RSS reader for the busy news junkie. You can specify priority levels for your subscriptions so that important news stories are sorted at the head of the queue, which you can read earlier. Keywords can also be specified to further rank individual news stories' importance.

SushiReader requires Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and is available for free.

Six Unexpected Uses For Tooltips

Sharon Zardetto, Macworld

You can do more with these little yellow rectangles than just identify items in toolbars.

Initial Aperture 3 Release Triggers Severe Memory Leaks

MacNN

Serious memory leaks are being caused by the newly-released Aperture 3, complaints on Apple's support forums suggest. Affected users note that virtual memory can spiral out of control, to the point that it can consume all of the free space on a Mac's hard drive. This can result in a Mac becoming unusable, either extremely slow or ultimately hanging.

Mac 101: Adding New Microphones To Your Mac

Erica Sadun, TUAW

There are several tricks that can help you analyze why your audio chats aren't working quite right. Here's a quick run-down of the steps you should take.

iPad SDK's Surprise: There Are No Surprises

Paul Krill, InfoWorld

Developers report lacks of new features beyond support of UI elements for the larger screen.

Nuance Acquires MacSpeech

Mel Martin, TUAW

Nuance Communications, the company behind Dragon Dictate and Dragon Search for the iPhone, has acquired MacSpeech, the company that makes MacSpeech Dictate and other voice recognition apps for the Mac platform.

Apple Announces MacBook Repair Program For Hard Drive Issues

AppleInsider

Users who bought MacBooks between May 2006 and December 2007 that are experiencing hard drive problems may be covered under a new repair extension program.

First Impressions Of Aperture 3

Thomas Fitzgerald

Review: Now X Calendar And Contact Manager

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Now X, once the standard for Mac contact management and calendaring, is a program that doesn't rise anywhere near the level of its predecessor. Poorly documented, occasionally buggy, and often slow, Now X is unlikely to be a viable replacement for whatever contact and calendar application is your current favorite.