Ambrosia Software, Inc. has upgraded its popular screen-capture software Snapz Pro X to 2.1.2. According to the company, this version is compatible with OS 10.5 Leopard with various fixes over the last version. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Mozilla has updated its popular web browser Firefox to 2.0.0.9 for Linux, Mac and Windows users. According to the organization, this update fixes several bugs and security issues found in Firefox 2.0.0.8.

The Camino Project has also updated its Mac-only Mozilla-based web browser to 1.5.3. According to the organization, this version is improved over 1.5.2 to adopt Mozilla Gecko rendering engine version 1.8.1.9, which fixes “serious web compatibility problems introduced in version 1.8.1.8 of Gecko.” Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has released Software Update 1.2 for 15.4/17-inch MacBook Pro (2.2/2.4 GHz). This line of MacBook Pro models was released in June, 2007. According to the company, this update will improve graphics stability.

Another software update has been issued for the August-2007 release of iMac models (20/24-inch, 2.0/2.4/2.8 GHz ntel Core2 Duo) with an aluminum case design. This update requires that your machine has Mac OS 10.5 running. According to Apple, this update will fix important bugs. Continue reading →

The following video tutorial deals with the Matroska multimedia format. Matroska is a container format just like AVI and MOV. So it’s not the matter of installing a proper plug-in to open Matroska-formatted video files with QuickTime.

The simple video tutorial we introduced about 14 months ago only shows how to extract media tracks out of a Matroska-formatted video file with no audio commentary. This video tutorial shows both how to extract media tracks out of a Matroska-formatted video file and how to pack audio and video tracks in the Matroska contrainer. We mainly use three applications in this tutorial: MKVToolNix, QuickTime Pro and MPEG Streamclip. The original video clip used in this video tutorial comes from Internet Archive. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. released the first line of Mac models with the latest OS release. The new line of MacBook models is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (2.0 GHz or 2.2 GHz). The price starts at $1,099 in the U.S., according to the company. Continue reading →