Showing posts with label MacBook Pro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacBook Pro. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Volumify Easily Mutes Your Mac Startup Sound


If you are looking to turn off and mute the annoying Mac startup sound, a new application called Volumify has been launched on the Mac App Store. That allows you to easily disable the startup sound in OS X Lion, allowing you to reboot and turn on your Mac without letting everyone around you know.

The new Volumify application not only mutes your Mac startup sound, it can also be configured to act differently in various locations. For instance if you only want to your Mac startup sound turned off in lectures, its ease to configure.





Once back at home or in the office you can simply configure Volumify to turn the volume back to normal. Volumify developers Rolling On The Bed explain:

“Volumify is a very handy utility to automatically adjust your Mac’s volume according to your current location and to disable the startup sound. All you need to do is configure your locations in the app’s preferences. Volumify automatically detects your locations by available WiFi networks and adjusts your Mac’s volume accordingly.”

Volumify features include: Automatic volume adjustment based on your current location, Automatic detection of locations, Configure individual locations and determine the system volume for these locations, Customise each location’s radius to account for large buildings or sites, Turn off the Mac OS X startup sound.

Sure there are other ways to turn off and mute your Macs startup sounds, but Volumify makes the process so simply and for £1.99 is a bargain, to have easy control over that annoying Mac startup sound

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Apple Motion 5.0.2 Update Rolls Out, Adding Improved Speed And Responsiveness



Joining the new update rolled out by Apple today for their Final Cut Pro X video editingsoftware. Apple has also rolled out an update for its Motion 5.0.2 software. Motion 5 providesFinal Cut Pro X users with additional tools to tweak and customise video footage, and is available to purchase for $50.

Enabling users to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. The new update released today is around 1.05GB in size and improves speed and responsiveness of text editing.





When first released the new Motion 5 packages was updated with an interface had been redesigned specifically for Final Cut Pro editors, with a familiar look and feel. Making it easy to switch between the two applications. A new single-window layout puts all the tools you need at your fingertips, and redesigned icons make it easy to identify options at glance.

The new Motion 5 update also brings with it improved overall stability and performance tweaks and is available as a download via the Mac App Store software on Mac OS X Lion.

Monday, January 30, 2012

OWC Aura Pro Express Adds Extra Storage Power To Your Mac Air



OWC has unveiled a new upgrade that will allow anyone with a Mac Book Air to add even more speed to the already nippy ultra book. The new OWC Aura Express 6G 480GB Solid State Disk has been created to add not only 8x more storage capacity for the MacBook Air, but also add up to 3x faster performance as well.

As you can expect the extra performance and speed comes at a price. The Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G 480GB model is priced at a massive $1,149 and is now available directly from OWC.








OWC’s 480GB SSD will perform best in the latest 11.1″ and 13.3″ Apple MacBook Air models, incorporating 6Gb/sec data rate capabilities and Tier 1/Grade A Toggle Synchronous NAND to deliver data rates.

OWC explains: “Whether you’re looking for storage capacity up to 8x the factory maximum or extreme data rate speeds over 500MB/s, an OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD is the ultimate MacBook Air performance upgrade.”

If this model is a little highly priced for your budget OWV also stocks 120GB and 240GB providing alternatives to factory SSD options for the MacBook Air models. More information can be found over on the OWC website


Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Apple has plans for a 2880×1800 MacBook Pro?



According to a new rumor from Digitimes, their sources have told them that Apple has plans to launch a new series of MacBook Pro laptops that will feature a whopping display resolution of 2880×1800, trumping that of the 27” iMac which only sports a maximum display resolution of 2560×1440. Safe to say that if this were true, the new MacBook Pros by Apple could possibly feature one of the highest resolutions available in its class.
At the moment ultrabook manufacturers such as ASUS and Acer have plans to launch a new series of ultrabooks in 2012 that will feature a display resolution of 1920×1080, a display that beats out other ultrabooks in the market including Apple’s MacBook Air, whose 13” model only goes to a maximum resolution of 1440×900.
The MacBook Pro was recently refreshed with newer Intel processors but we’re sure that a refresh is definitely on Apple’s to-do list for 2012, but will it sport the rumored 2880×1800 resolution that Digitimes’ sources have told them? We guess we will have to wait and find out for ourselves.