Last Friday I treated myself to a new 17″ MacBook Pro (that’s a story for another post though!) One thing that always puts me off is as soon as I buy one a new one comes out, so I thought I would be safe buying a couple of weeks after the WWDC when it was upgraded. Of course the other big news at the WWDC was the upcoming official release of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard due to be released in September.
It made me think, do I have to pay the full price to upgrade my OS even though it’s not far away and I’ve just spent a small fortune in the Apple store?
So a bit of poking around on the Apple website came up with an interesting page (one I might add that is not well linked to!)
UK – http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/uptodate/
US – http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
So the deal is simple if you bought a new Mac on or after June 8th you get a special upgrade price! $9.95 USD and £7.95 GBP (gotta love Apples currency conversions!) You have to claim within 60 days of purchase and before December 26th 2009 but it seems well worth it.
You can apply at the above links pay by credit/debit card and it will be shipped upon release. Makes a nice change for Apple to do something nice seeing as they charged me £20 to buy a Mini-Display Port to DVI adaptor!!!!
Here at Crenk we have updated our site to the new Wordpress 2.7 and it is better than ever.
It only took about five minutes to upload via FTP and it is so much better than the previous 2.6 version.
The interface is a lot easier to look at and the dashboard has so many features to use. Additionally, one of the best features has to be editing and commenting right within the admin dashboard. Brilliant.
If you haven’t already head over to Wordpress.org and download Wordpress 2.7 now.
Yesterday we wrote about Firefox 3 and potential themes that you can download, but today we are going to talk about one of the most popular add-ons on Firefox 3, Foxytunes. Foxytunes is currently owned by Yahoo and improved a lot in the last 6 months or so.
Foxytunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.
Foxytunes can either be download from their website or via the Firefox add-on section. Either way this free download is a must for all web users!
The majority of Firefox 3 users are still using Firefox 2, but it is now time to upgrade to Firefox 3! Already here on Crenk we have covered Firefox 3 Download day and 7 Firefox add-ons to help you browse anonomously, but we thought it was time that we covered some Firefox 3 themes that we thought you should go and download right now. These themes are worth upgrading for.
Phoenity Reborn – A colorful theme with multiple icon sizes to customize your browser buttons. This theme is totally compatible with Firefox 3 and might even just brighten up your day at work. Well probably not really.
Walnut – This has to be one of the sexiest Firefox 3 themes out there. It kinda looks like a wood grain dash board, but I must admit I would much rather be sitting in a car with this as interior than playing around on Firefox.
Red Cats -Well im not too sure if this should be called red cats, should be orange cats. This theme has some great extensions and it also comes in blue, you can ask for more than that.
Zlio have some news. The have just announced they have a new voting and classifcation system that will allow Zlio to regularly promote users stores on both their homepage and other pages, thus bringing in a great deal more traffic to your site. This service is due to launch in a couple of weeks. Other new features will include:
- A search engine that will allow you to find store within a certain key word or theme
- The ability to add several products at the same time
- A commissions upgrade, so this can be accessed with greater efficiency
- Finally, administration upgrade, so you can move between different stores and pages more freely
This is good news for Zlio who claim to currently be the largest online shopping centre in the world, with over 210,000 stores in their network. Make sure you keep an eye out for this news to be all over the web in the next few weeks, because im sure as part of their marketing campaign they will try to push a lot of traffic to their home page, so stores within the network can benefit.
It was announced last week that Wordpress would be launching a new release soon, and it happens to be today! Crenk has already upgraded our Wordpress and some new features are: tagging, tag clouds, plugin updates and also the cleaning up of URLs.
So make sure you head over to Wordpress and upgrade now!
