Macs And Stuff

Looked around for an Exif Editor for Mac OS X and found…

ExifTool by Phil Harvey

Latest version was updated today (Jan. 10, 2010). So, it looks like a “live” freeware project.

Parallels Desktop 5 was released. Upgrade price is $49.99. Not planning to upgrade Parallels or VMware at the moment because I rarely run VMs on my Mac these days and use the free VirtualBox when I do.

I guess I don’t scan paper very often on my Mac. I only noticed a week ago that my HP OfficeJet couldn’t scan a week or so ago. It scanned fine prior to upgrading to Snow Leopard. Found Apples…

Mac OS X v10.6: Printer and scanner software

…list. Will have to check if my printer/fax/scanner is supported later.

Looking through VMware Fusion 3 new features list…

VMware Fusion 3: New Features

Not convinced I need to upgrade for $39.99 despite the impressive list of new features and reasonable upgrade price. I have not been using virtualization much on my Mac recently

Microsoft Mesh is one of several online storage services from the software giant. Others include Skydrive (my favorite) and Office Live. The latest version of Mesh is compatible with OS X Snow Leopard.

Mac Software, Snow Leopard Support Now Available

While it is compatible with both the older OS X 10.5 Leopard as well as Snow Leopard, Microsoft’s announcement says the update is only required for Snow Leopard.

Ugh. This is a note-to-self entry. Re-read this item on 9to5mac.com…

Snow Leopard bug threatens user data, reports claim

It provided a link to this CNet item about a possible recovery procedure for this problem…

How to restore Lost home folder after logging in as guest in Snow Leopard