Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via Infinite Loop.)
Apple has had yet another lawsuit filed against it recently, this time alleging that Time Machine infringes on a number of patents owned by a company named Mirror Worlds.
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
While OS X has long included basic firewall software, Leopard introduced some significant changes to it, leaving many Leopard users confused as to how to keep their Macs secure. But though the firewall interface in Mac OS X 10.5 is indeed quite different from that in earlier versions of ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
(Via Linux Today.)
Pack Rat Studios: "The only problem remaining was reception. My co-worker sat next to a window and was having reception problems despite Sirius having a land based repeater in our market..."
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
(Via AppleMatters.)
Apple’s Leopard is several months and a few upgrades old now, but some things still aren’t meeting expectations. Although my experience with it is has been very good (and I know some folks have had serious problems), an accumulation of troubling problems have, well, troubled me.
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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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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
Having lost part of a Sunday getting a hardened SSH to work between my various machines, it was a pleasure to recover by writing a Python script to create an /etc/sshd_config file I could actually read. Here's the script, which I've named sshd_config.py, to transform /etc/sshd_config ...
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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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