Archive for the 'Software' Category

Snow Leopard – Availability and Pricing in India

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Mac OS 10.6 aka Snow Leopard will be available in India in another 2-4 weeks. It’ll be priced at Rs. 1,800 for existing Mac OS 10.5 users. Tiger users can buy the Mac Box Set which includes iLife’09, iWork’09 and Snow Leopard, for Rs. 10,000. As far as we can tell, Apple is not [...]

Mail.app tips

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Mail.app is not many people’s preferred e-mail client. Indeed, it is missing some key editing features – like the ability to insert tables in an email message – which can be a deal breaker for a lot of us. I use it because it is fast and lightweight, and unlike some of the other email [...]

Google Maps road directions now available in India

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Good news for people who lose their way easily in India
Google Maps now supportsĀ  “Get Directions” on its map application both on the web and the iPhone. I have tested a few routes and they are fairly accurate bar a few shortcuts I know of. Please test it in your cities and leave [...]

iLife’09/iWork’09 availability in India

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

iLife’09 should be officially available at both imagine and Reliance iStore outlets in Bangalore on coming Wednesday. It is expected to retail at around Rs. 4,320.
iWork’09 is also expected to be here on Wednesday and will cost roughly Rs. 4,320 as well.
The refreshed MacBook White is also available in Bangalore now. At around Rs. 56,580, [...]

Opening .CHM files on a Mac

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

CHM or Microsoft’s Compiled HTML Help format is quite widespread these days. You’ll find a lot of ebooks and documentation in this format . For example both MySQL and Apache offer their documentation is this format – the latter doesn’t offer PDFs at all. I really wish Preview handled CHM files as well, but [...]