Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
(Via MacWorld.)
When OS X 10.5 was first released last fall, one of its marquee features was Stacks, those special folders in the Dock that pop up in a fan-like listing of your files. We've found some tricks and workarounds that actually make Stacks useful. Here are a few of our ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
(Via MacNN.)
Skype Technologies recently unveiled Skype for Mac 2.7.0.257, bringing with it 38 bug fixes, and much tighter compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Among the Leopard-specific fixes, Skype would sometimes crash when ending video calls, or when moving the "Send Video" windows. In addition, chat window emoticons would ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
(Via MacNN.)
Apple's latest Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 update and 2008-001 security update for 10.4 Tiger users fixes a number of different vulnerabilities that have existed in a number of different system resources. A stack buffer overflow in Directory Services could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code, while ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
(Via Insanely Great Mac.)
Leopard graphics, security updates also wriggle free. WebObjects gets a going over, too
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
(Via MacMegasite - Macintosh news from a developer's point of view.)
Scott Haneda and Caroline Merchiers have started a new Macintosh help website, OS X Help, aimed at beginners. The new site is designed for the beginning Mac user, whether they just purchased their...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
(Via MacRumors.)
The wait for Leopard 10.5.2 continues, with a 1 digit build increment (9C31) seeded today. The latest developer build offers fixes to a networking connectivity issue, and reportedly has no known issues. Apple seeded build 9C30 just two days ago.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
(Via MyMac.com.)
There may still be some cat lovers (Tiger, Puma, Cheetah, or Panther) among us who still don't know what Leopard has to offer. If you are one of them, or are just looking for a short, readable collection of whys, wherefores, hints, tips, and tricks about Leopard, Macworld's Total ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
When you’re setting up Spaces in OS X 10.5, one of the more time-consuming aspects of the process is assigning your programs to each space. Assigning a program to a space is done in the Spaces tab of the Exposé & Spaces System Preferences panel. Typically, ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
If you have been putting off using Time Machine to back up your Mac because of the lack of being able to time backups; you have no excuse now. As many of you already know, Time Machine does a complete system backup at first, then hourly ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
I just got a .mac account, use GnuPG, and want Apple's Backup to store my keyring on my iDisk regularly in a custom Backup plan. However, he keyring is by default located at /Users/myuser/.gnupg, which is a hidden folder in the Finder, and that makes Backup's ...
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