You may probably know that Apple, Inc. began selling OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, a USB install drive for Mac OS X Lion, several days ago. Apple Store currently sells it for US$69.00. You may have also heard that you can actually create your own USB install drive saving some 20 to 30 bucks, provided that you have a Lion installation disk from Mac App Store.

Screenshot 1 – Source: MacHouse

A question that I had a few days ago is “Can I use my SDHC card to create a Lion install drive?” These days, I don’t use USB memory sticks. Rather, I have quite a lot of SDHC and Compact Flash cards. As you know, all new iMacs, which Apple, Inc. introduced in early May, come with an SD card slot. Maybe, create a Lion install card and plug it into this slot to start up an iMac? I was a bit skeptical. But I had to try it. So I just bought a new iMac 27″ Quad Core 3.1 GHz plus a SDHC card yesterday. Actually, it arrived this morning.

An SDHC card that I was going to use is Silicon Power 4 GB (Class 10) SDHC card. I’ve bought one just for this attempt. I was going to use it, but I didn’t. That’s because this card doesn’t have sufficient capacity. 4 GB isn’t enough. So, instead, I ended up using an existing Transcend 8 GB (Class 6) SDHC card. Well, I didn’t have to buy a new 4 GB SDHC card after all. But that’s all right. Furthermore, since I’m a member of Mac Developer Program, I get a free copy of OS X Lion installation disk. And I have a copy sitting on my external hard drive.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s been quite a while since we released the last software title. It’s most likely that we are not going to work on many Mac projects as we used to as Apple, Inc. is such a very disappointing company to work with as far as Mac App Store is concerned. Meanwhile, a new Mac software title that we’ve just released is called BOMM.

Source: MacHouse

BOMM is a Mail assistant that is designed so that users can read e-mail messages from older versions. If you have a backup Mail folder dating back to days when you used OS X 10.5 Leopard, you can use BOMM to browse e-mail messages on a computer running Snow Leopard or Lion.

Source: MacHouse

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BOMM is a product of MacHouse.
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So Mac OS X Lion is out. We’ve tested almost all our software titles that are available at Mac App Store. We regret to inform that at least two of them are unlikely to run under Mac OS X Lion.

1. FileTidy: The way Mac OS handles the view arrangement of files has changed. We used to press Control + Shift + 3, 4 or whatever under Snow Leopard. It’s now totally different under Lion. It would be easier for us to release a separate update that would run only under Lion. But that’s not how Mac App Store works. To our understanding, Mac App Store applications must run under Snow Leopard and Lion.
2. QuickMarks: We were going to update this software title. In fact, we’ve submitted an update to Mac App Store. They’ve just informed us that it will crash after the user drags and drops a piece of clipped text onto the drop box once or twice. In fact, they are right. The application doesn’t crash under Snow Leopard. For now, we cannot figure out why it will crash under Lion.

So Mac OS X 10.7 is finally out. This OS release can be quite trouble-making for those who distribute their software products through Mac App Store, which Apple, Inc. opened in January 6th.

Screenshot 1 – Source: MacHouse

If you develop Mac software products, you probably know that the primary location where your application is allowed to access and store files is Application Support. More specifically, the path is Users/User/Library/Application Support/(application name)/. As you see in Screenshot 1, however, you don’t find ‘Library’ inside the User folder. Under Mac OS X 10.7, this folder is hidden. So you have to reveal invisible files at first to access the Library folder. If you have done so, you may probably want to add it to the sidebar. (See Screenshot 2.) If you click on the favorite folder you’ve just added, whether invisible files have been revealed or not, you can have quick access to the Library folder.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – It was announced yesterday that the company planned to release Mac OS X Lion today. Indeed, OS X Lion is already available at Mac App Store. In the meantime, Apple, Inc. has also released a new line of MacBook Air models.

Source: MacHouse