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Maintenance Tools For Mac OS X
There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.
Date: 2006-12-21
When The OS Doesn't Matter
What happens when the operating system you use doesn't really matter any more? It started with dual-booting Windows and Linux, and using things like Crossover Office to run Windows apps under Linux (which is balky at best), and then things like Virtual PC for Mac, and now we have Apples with Intel chips that can dual-boot Windows and Mac OS-X with Boot Camp.
Date: 2006-12-04
MacBook Pro Battery Exchange
I think I was actually vaguely aware of the 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program, but *I* wasn't having any battery problems so I never looked into it.
Date: 2006-11-20
New MacBook Hits The Street
So Apple released the specs for the new MacBooks today...
Date: 2006-11-09
The Psyche Of PC Owners
Apparently I'm not the only one wondering if Microsoft is going to take a big belly flop with Vista: David Morgenstern at eWeek has a column asking "What if Microsoft Held a Vista Party and Nobody Came?"
Date: 2006-10-25
Mac OS X Internals Review
I've been waiting quite a while for this book. It was the introduction of the Intel Macs that delayed this; an appendix and numerous updates throughout the book cover the new hardware and the software changes (that's the August 2006 printing; if you are buying used and want the Intel info, don't buy the June 2006 edition).
Date: 2006-10-10
Macs Can Chat Better Through MSN
Microsoft released its newest chat client, Messenger 6.0, for the Macintosh platform in Universal Binary form.
Date: 2006-09-29
10.2 Jaguar : Apple's New Innovative Mac OS X Version
Apple Developed the Original Mac OX as a brand new OS. When you start Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar, you are greeted with the friendly Aqua user interface, which enables you to work with programs, files, communications, and other functions and content. This latest version of the Macintosh operating system offers even more easy and elegant functionality.
Date: 2006-09-11
Vista Vs. Leopard Poker Showdown
So Apple has given us a taste of Leopard while almost certainly withholding some features to hit Microsoft with later this year or early next.
Date: 2006-08-31
Mac OS X: Time Machine
Apple has added something they are calling Time Machine to the upcoming "Leopard" release of OS X.
Date: 2006-08-17
Available today - QuarkXPress 7 for Intel-based Macs!
The Universal version QuarkXPress® 7 is here! QuarkXPress 7 is the first design and page-layout software to run natively on Intel®-based Macs. Work faster than ever and take your creative abilities to new heights with new features
Date: 2006-08-08
Sleeping Macbooks
MacBooks and iBooks can be put to sleep simply by closing the lid. That's the method I usually use when I'm done for the day: just close the lid...
Date: 2006-08-03
Fugu SSH/SFTP Client
Fugu boasts an Apple Design award for Best Mac OS X Use of Open Source. As expected, I found myself wondering why the heck you need a gui interface for scp or sftp, but actually it turned out to be useful and .. I liked it...
Date: 2006-07-20
Quicksilver
I'm still puzzling over Quicksilver. I'm really not sure whether I don't get it, or it's the people that love it that really don't get it...
Date: 2006-06-22
ClamAV On Mac With Kerio MailServer
I downloaded ClamAV source from http://www.clamav.net. A simple ./configure; make; make install in the source directory was all that was required...
Date: 2006-06-08
OS X File Encryption
I'm going to look at two methods for encrypting files on Mac OS X. The first is built in, and uses DisK Utilty to create an encrypted disk image.
Date: 2006-05-25
Tree Maps Of Disk Space
GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X are two free Mac OS X apps that give graphical views of where your disk space is being used.
Date: 2006-05-09
Burst Squeezing Apple Over Patents
Apple sued Burst in January 2006 and sought a declaratory judgment
to invalidate Burst's patents on video and audio real-time delivery
technology, and now Burst has responded with a counterclaim seeking
damages, royalties, and an end to Apple's infringement.
Date: 2006-04-20
Apple Releases Boot Camp For Dual-Booting Windows
Apple has released a free public beta of Boot Camp, software that lets you install Windows XP on a Mac.
Date: 2006-04-06
Compiling on Mac OS X
There are a lot of pre-compiled binaries available for Mac OS X, but sooner or later you will need to compile something from source.
Date: 2006-03-09
Google Shows Mac Users The Widget Love
Three Dashboard Widgets from the talented engineers at Google offer Mac users some extra Google functionality in OS X.
Date: 2006-02-27
Security Through Obscurity Threatened As Macs Become More Popular?
At Apple's
in the eye of flaw finders, Mac users are warned that the growing popularity
of the platform will attract viruses and security hacks. An unsettling report
states that...
Date: 2006-02-09
Vanderpool, Intel Dual Core VT And Intel Macs
I (and a few others) been blabbering about this for a while but it seems that very few people are really aware of what is about to happen here.
Date: 2006-01-19
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