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  • fantomas

    NVIDIA Web Driver Updater

    By fantomas, in OSx86,

    Hi InsanelyMac community!
     
    Our developers are proud to present you their last great application, NVIDIA Web Driver Updater.
     
    This application will enable you to search for the latest NVIDIA Web Drivers online and download the standard package from NVIDIA.
     
    The downloaded package is modified on the fly to remove the hardware restriction, so you can immediately install the new drivers on your hackintosh!
     
    You can download the application on our Download Section.
     
    We're looking forward to your feedback in the support topic!
  • Ed

    PDFelement review

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    PDF files are a ubiquitous part of our digital lives. It’s hard to avoid them in an increasingly paperless age, yet simple editing and conversion of PDFs largely remains out of boundaries for most consumers.

    Typically one would need to install Adobe Acrobat to manipulate a PDF, or even use Adobe Illustrator for more complex edits: neither of these applications by Adobe come cheap, each running into the hundreds of dollars or, as Adobe is now fond of, a chunky subscription fee.
     
    Enter Wondershare’s PDFelement: a much more affordable, lightweight, yet surprisingly polished application at $99.
     
    Editing text & images
    The Mac interface of PDFelement is akin to that of Apple’s own Preview application: tools up top and multi-page thumbnails down the side. Simply switching into edit mode allows you to edit text on a field by field basis, and unlike with Adobe’s solutions there’s no warnings about font mis-matches: PDFelement just gets on with the job and lets you edit the text in place, without breaking the formatting or alignment. Making edits and saving a version of an edited PDF, then comparing to the original, it was impossible to tell which was the original document and which was the edited version.
     

     
    OCR
    There is an optional OCR plug-in for converting scanned text in PDF documents into actual native text. The plug-in can be installed directly from with PDFelement although be aware that it’s a 400MB+ download. Once installed, any scanned document can be converted so that bitmapped text becomes native text, which you can then edit.
     
    From our tests the OCR worked well with large chunks of text on scanned documents from a Fujitsu ScanSnap and even an iPhone. However, it wasn’t as effective on more complicated pages that included tables where text was quite close to table outlines, which led to the OCR simply missing text and leaving it as bitmap.
     
    Exporting
    Possibly one of the most common wishes for PDFs is converting them to a Word document. As you would imagine, PDFelement handles this well, albeit you should never expect the conversion process to be flawless: a relatively simple terms & conditions document inherited random exclamation marks throughout the document; a more complex document with tables and simple graphics held up reasonably well but certain tables lost their colour shading. However, the export to Word process is satisfactory enough to communicate the text in a document via Word.
     

     
    Summary
    If editing PDFs and re-saving them either as PDFs or converting them to Word (or the many other formats that it support) is important to you then PDFelement is a valuable and reasonably priced application that does exactly what it says it does in a solid, lightweight application.
     
     
    Compared to Adobe Acrobat it’s a no brainer unless you’re a graphics professional. At the $99 price point you’ve still got to be serious about regularly wanting to edit PDFs, but it’s one of those tools that you'll soon wonder how you ever managed without it.
     
    Download a free trial of PDFelement
  • Allan

    Apple Keynote - What's the news?

    By Allan, in OSx86,

    Well, August has ended, and anxiety increases
     
    As you know, we always have two (public) Apple keynotes. In the first Keynote we get to know a little bit about Apple's operating systems (Mobile and Desktop).
     
    Now let's see the news about Apple's hardware:
     
    Official releases
     
    iPadPro with 12,9 inch
     

     

     
    The new iPadPro brings the new "Metal" technology.
    You can run 4 videos in 4k resolution, wow
    And includes a Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil integrated

    - Thanks Microsoft
    Apple TV
    The Apple TV brings a new Smart Control, with integrated Siri, and you can play some games.
     

     

     
    iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
     

     
    The most incredible technology in not Force Touch, but is the 3D Touch!
     
    Specs:
    A9 chip with 64-bit architecture - Embedded M9 motion coprocessor
    New 12-megapixel iSight camera with 1.22µ pixels
    4K video recording (3840 by 2160) at 30 fps
     
     
    OS X El Capitan - Availabel September 30
     
    Apple has also added some jokes to Siri - this is pretty cool:
     

     
    This keynote begins at 10AM PDT - You can watch it here:
    Apple Events
  • Allan
    Today (via AppStore), for Yosemite users, can donwload the Final Version of 10.10.5
     
    About the update:
    The update improves “stability, compatibility, and security” while also highlighting specific fixes for Mail, Photos, and QuickTime Player apps.
     
    Updates:
    10.10.5 Combo Update https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1832
    10.10.5 Update https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1833
     
    Thanks: @FusselFux
     
    1,20GB size in AppStore:
     

     
    All fine here:
     

  • Allan
    Apple release today the new update for OS X Yosemite.
     
    The new OS X version is available through the Mac App Store. Developers and public beta testers running preview releases of OS X 10.10.4 can find the update through the Updates tab as well.
     
    This update:
    • Improves networking reliability
    • Improves Migration Assistant reliability
    • Addresses an issue that prevented some external displays from functioning properly
    • Improves the reliability of upgrading iPhoto and Aperture libraries to Photos
    • Improves reliability when syncing photos and videos to iCloud Photo Library
    • Addresses an issue that could cause Photos to unexpectedly quit after importing some Lecia DNG files
    • Resolves an issue that could delay outgoing email messages in Mail
    • Fixes an issue where a website could prevent the user from navigating away by presenting repeated JavaScript alerts in Safari
     
    Enterprise content
     
    For enterprise customers, this update:
    • Addresses an issue where OS X systems bound to directory services could stop responding under certain conditions
    • Adds the ability to create mobile accounts with the createmobileaccount tool
    • Fixes an issue in Profile Manager that could allow a user to install pre-release software even when the setting is disabled
     
    Normal Update: OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 Update
    Combo Update: OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 Combo Update
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