Apple Releasing EFI & SMC Firmware Updates for Late 2008 MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Models

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has released a firmware update for MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro, all models released in late-2008. According to the company, the SMC firmware updates for MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro ‘improve the sensing and accuracy of the MagSafe Power Adapter indicator light and the battery charge indicator lights.’ of the computers. As for the EFI firmware updates for MacBook and MacBook Air, the company says these updates fix ‘several issues to improve the stability’ of the computers.






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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4 Reviews – Should One Upgrade Adobe Dreamweaver & Fireworks?

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Some 9 years ago, I bought Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio for about $150 to 155 with an academic discount. I was still a graduate student at that time. I only wanted Dreamweaver and didn’t use Fireworks very much.

Nowadays, our work without Fireworks is unthinkable. Fireworks is not necessarily a great application to use. It’s just that you can edit graphic files fast. It’s not like there are many things that you can do with Fireworks, which you can’t with Photoshop.

How about Dreamweaver? I won’t say life without Dreamweaver is unimaginable. It’s true that Dreamweaver is one of the most widely used HTML editor for both Mac and Windows. Dreamweaver is a mature product just like Microsoft Word and Excel. Some Mac users had a good reason to upgrade their Microsoft Office, though. Microsoft never released a Universal upgrade for Office 2004 products so that they could sell more units of Office 2008, which runs natively on Intel Mac computers. Again, how about Dreamweaver?

Adobe officially started shipping CS4 products including Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4 in mid-October. The release cycle is quite short. It’s only 18 months. Adobe started shipping CS3 products in April, 2007. Dreamweaver 9 and other CS3 products were already compatible with Intel Mac computers natively. So some Mac users may not feel they need to upgrade their Adobe CS3 products. And our recommendation is… Don’t waste your money.  Continue reading →

Microsoft Releasing Open XML File Format Converter for Office 2008 and Update Patches for Office 2004 & 2008

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Microsoft has released Open XML File Format Converter for Microsoft Office 2008. According to the company, Open XML Converter allows the user ‘to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows.’ And you can open and edit converted files with earlier versions of Microsoft Office. Meanwhile, according to Microsoft, Office 2004 11.5.3 Update and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.5 Update will enhance stability and performance. More specially, the company says the update will fix ‘vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.’






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Age of Mythology: The Titans – Game Play Video Part 3

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The following game play video is for those Mac users who hoped to play Age of Mythology: The Titans and still want to see how this expansion runs for PC. The Titans adds a fourth mythology, the Atlanteans, to the game on top of Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythologies. Thanks to our Intel Mac machine, we are now able to play the Titans expansion on Windows partition.

Playing Age of Mythology: The Titans Boot Camp Playing Age of Mythology: The Titans Boot Camp

This recorded game file comes from JOSEYWALES (http://ksjoseywales.nodecam.com). This is a 2 vs 2 game play. Team 1 has FoD_AssHole (Loki) and FoD_MsDolls (Kronos) while Team 2 includes DBD_Mac (Odin) and KS_Josey_Wales (Oranos).  Continue reading →