Check out the ‘ultimate’ in Mac maintenance software, hot of the shelves from ZeoBIT..
MacKeeper 2012 is a collection of Mac maintenance and security tools, all wrapped up in one neat little package. ZeoBIT really have thought of everything!
MacKeeper has been proven to keep your Mac running in tip top condition, and has managed to rack up a total of 8 awards from some very respectable sources! Including the Five Cow rating from Tucows.com
Check out MacKeeper 2012 features:
- Internet Security
The internet can be a dark and dangerous place for your Mac, stop taking risks now by enabling in-depth security checks each time you browse to a website. - Antivirus Plugin
Websites can often be home to some pretty nasty virus’s, why take a chance of browsing without Antivirus protection? Despite what some people may say, Mac’s can and do get virus’s. - Anti-Theft
Everyone fears that time when they realise there beloved Mac has been stolen, should you ever be unfortunate enough to suffer, MacKeeper’s Anti-Theft module will track down your Mac and take snapshots with the built in iSight camera. - Data Encryptor
Don’t leave your confidential drive contents ‘open to the elements’ encrypt and even hide your data away from prying eyes. - Files Recovery
Have you ever been in the position where you realise you have accidentally deleted your loved ones photos? Lost your entire music collection? Or even just misplaced one document. Well fear no more with MacKeeper’s File Recovery Module. - Backup
Don’t ever risk loosing your important information, MacKeeper’s built in Backup module leaves no data unprotected. - Shredder
Rather then just deleting your files, potentially leaving traces of confidential data all over your hard drive. Destroy it once and for all with Shredder. - Fast Cleanup
In todays fast paced world you don’t have time to clean up clutter from your Mac, take the bind out of keeping your drive clutter down to a minimum with Fast Cleanup. - Disk Usage
Disk Usage is perfect if your trying to track down the illusive free drive space. - Duplicates Finder
Track down duplicate space hogging files using the simple straight forward Duplicates Finder. - Files Finder
Using preset’s in Files Finder you can quickly and easily track down Video, Audio, Photos, Archives and Applications, or create your own presets. - Smart Uninstaller
Removing installed applications from you mac can often be a bit of a laborious process… Well not anymore, MacKeeper makes it super simple. - Update Tracker
Keep all your installed Mac Apps up to date and bug free with the update tracker. - Login Items
Speed up your Mac’s boot up times by easily tweaking your login items. - Default Apps
A quick and easy way to manage your Mac’s default application assignments. - Geek on Demand
Geek on demand gives you quick and easy access to answers to all of your technical questions.
You can take advantage of all of these applications with a massive 90% discount, what should cost £410.60 is only £33.95.. What are you waiting for, go grab a copy now!
You can also download a fully functional trial version by clicking on this link..
Popular Voice-Over-IP calling system ‘Skype’ has recently released an update to their iPhone application. Skype on iPhone works flawlessly for calling your Skype connected friends and family, and what’s more using Skype with ‘Skype out’ credits can often work out cheaper then using your standard mobile tariff.
Version 3.7 brings updates to the chat and dial pad view, along with lots of stability improvements and bug fixes.
If you have not had chance to test out Skype yet, you can download it from the AppStore for free.
Don’t forget Skype to Skype calls are free of charge (data usage charges may apply) and Skype to normal phones are charged at a reduced rate.
Microsoft have been working on breaking into the iOS market since around November last year, and it looks like we could soon be seeing that ever so popular Office logo in our iOS Device AppStores soon. It’s rumoured, that on launch the iOS variant of the popular app suite will support Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. No news has been released as of yet as to if that will ever been increased to support more Office file types.
The rumours are that interface is similar to that of the desktop variants ‘One Note’, with clear relations to the metro and Windows 8 GUI’s.
It’s going to be interesting to see at which price point Microsoft attack the market at, considering Apples’ own variant have been in the AppStore for sometime now. I am also looking forward to see how well Microsoft integrate cloud based storage and syncing, if nothing else but to judge it against Apple’s iCloud offering.
I’m confident an Android version won’t be far behind…
There is somewhat of a ‘hidden’ feature in the OS X Lion Speech System preference window, the ability to add more ‘System Voices’ to use with the text-to-speech engine.
The built in voices can be a bit boring, and no fun at all.. However, if you click on the System Voice drop down, then choose customise you will find a list full of all the available voices. Now, scroll down all the way to the US voices, and the past the normal ones. You should reach a section which looks like the one to the right.
Selecting these voice files add’s a little bit more novelty and variation to the Speech engine.
In this list you can also download some more voice files for most languages which don’t ship by default with OS X.
I think it’s fair to say that iTunes really does split the crowds, some people love it.. Some people hate it with a passion, well I am up there with the ones who love it.. Sure it’s got it’s issues, but I am not sure the iPhone or the mac would be the same without it.
For those of you who do love it, and think it’s here to stay.. Here’s a quick terminal command to enable a hidden feature. The feature gives you a small notification popup each time the iTunes track changes.
In a new terminal window, enter the following command:
1 2 | defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool YES Killall Dock |
Now, the next time iTunes track details changes you will get a popup like the one seen above! Not sure why this isn’t a built in iTunes feature, I personally think it’s pretty cool.











