Section: Mac
February 15, 2008 by
Jason
No one ever bought a car or a computer because it could go slower. If your hard-disk drive seems to take forever to go about its business, or if it’s having trouble keeping up with your CD-R burning software, chances are it’s time for a tune-up and defragmentation.
Step 1: Close any open applications. Disable antivirus utilities, screen savers and other background programs. Make sure you’ve quit all programs in Windows by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete once (don’t press it twice or you’ll restart the computer).
Step 2: Windows will show you a list of applications running. Highlight each application (one at a time) and click on End Task to close each one. Read More»
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January 16, 2008 by
Jason Apple is riding a success wave fueled by the market performance of the Mac computers. And while the Cupertino-based hardware company was pushing in excess of 2.15 million Macs per month back in the third quarter of 2007, ahead of the advent of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, its proprietary operating system also grows its own market share in the background. Statistics delivered by Net Applications reveal that at the end of 2007, Mac OS X accounted for over 7% of the operating system market, just behind Vista which passed the 10% mark in December
of the past year.
But with the added Mac OS X audience also come inherent caveats. With an install base of in excess of 70 million users worldwide, Mac OS X is increasingly coming in the focus of attackers. The DNSChanger Trojan horse aimed at Apple’s operating system is an illustrative example of such a scenario. And as Mac OS X will increase its footprint on the operating system market, the threat landscape will react, responding with new threats tailored to the platform. Read More»
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January 12, 2008 by
Jason The iPhone, that extremely popular gadget built by the Cupertino company Apple, is one of the latest devices threatened by some malicious packages, as Orla Cox of Symantec today warned. What’s interesting is that this threat, if we can name it so, is not as dangerous as it may sound, because the only thing it does is to harm some of the applications deployed on the affected iPhone. The malicious file comes as a firmware update and is named “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep”. Its creators described the package “an important system update; install this before updating to the new 1.1.3 firmware”, according to the Symantec official. Read More»
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December 23, 2007 by
Jason Apple’s move to Intel architecture opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and it was not long before software, such as Parallels, VMWare and Boot Camp, came and made lots of those possibilities reality. Now, with Leopard released, new information about how the Mac OS reacts to Windows executable has come to light.
The abundance of speculation has been spurred by two independent reports. The first, a thread on the Wine mailing labeled ‘Interesting Behavior of OS X’, has Steven Edward’s describing that Leopard has an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, which are used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Read More»
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December 20, 2007 by
Jason
When it comes down to the Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X face-off, consumer perception is an important factor in bringing to center stage the most secure operating system of the two. And driven by an immutable Apple marketing ideology, Mac OS X manages to position itself in the limelight. OS X is nothing short of the Holly Grail in terms of protecting its users, while Windows Vista, via the inherent associating with the Windows line-up of products, is situated at the very opposite pole.
But at the same time, statistics manage to paint an entirely different picture of the two platforms. A new perspective over Vista vs. Mac OS X begins to take contour, one that is largely in the advantage of Microsoft’s latest Windows client. Apple has not reacted in any manner to the vulnerability and update counting games that tilt the balance in Vista’s favor. Not that it would have many avenues to deny hard facts. Read More»
Posted in Mac, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
December 18, 2007 by
Jason iPhone is virtually slaughtering Windows Mobile powered devices in terms of market performance. In yet another aspect of the multifaceted Microsoft vs. Apple face-off, the Cupertino-based hardware company has left the Redmond giant in the dust. On the U.S. Market, the iPhone has been nothing short of a smashing success just a few weeks short of the first six months since it was introduced. Earlier in 2007, Apple chose to sacrifice Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on the altar of the iPhone. Apple talked at that time of necessary tradeoffs, and it looks like their gambit payed off. The iPhone is swallowing market shares at a rapid pace and is consistently growing its audience. Read More»
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December 11, 2007 by
Jason If you are an iTune user, the following add on list will come handy for both Mac and Windows users.
Lets first check the programs, which should be there on a Mac computer:
Synergy: Synergy is an iTunes utility designed for expanding the graphical display of the standard iTunes feature set. The update adds the ability to display album covers of song titles being played.
Fetch Art for iTunes: Fetch Art allows to automatically download album art from music in iTunes. It uses album art from Amazon.com, and the ID3 tags in the MP3 files to determine the appropriate CD cover to download. Read More»
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December 06, 2007 by
Jason A newly discovered security hole in Apple’s QuickTime medial player could be used to allow users to unwittingly download malicious software, according to Symantec researchers. The necessary code is now ‘in the wild’ and has been found lurking on at least one porn site. The code, which is been named ‘Downloader’ is currently rated as low risk, but once it finds its way onto a PC it opens a backdoor that allows other malicious programs to be downloaded. Users of QuickTIme 7 are advised to avoid downloading and watching naughty videos until a patch has been released. It’s also a good idea to increase your browser’s security settings, and if you know how, disable QuickTIme as an RSTP protocol handler.
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November 05, 2007 by
Jason Ever since Apple switched over to Intel processor, the same processors that are used in some PCs, it has been possible to run Windows on the Apple hardware. Why would you want to do this? While OS X is a pretty OS, Windows applications will not run on it. The only way to run Windows applications on a Mac is to run Windows in a VM. With the Intel based Macs that changed. It is now possible to dual boot OS X and Windows so that you can simply reboot and startup in Windows. Removing the need for the VM by natively running Windows has a big performance benefit. It also makes it possible to do things that were not possible with virtualization software such a 3D gaming.
To dual boot Windows Vista and OS X without destroying OS X you will need to use Boot Camp that is only included in OS X 1.5 Leopard. To get started, you will need to follow these steps on your Mac: Read More»
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November 05, 2007 by
Jason
With a new major release of a new operating system, one would think that there is so much new stuff to look at and play with that nobody would obsess over an icon. That is not the case, apparently, as opinions flare over Apple’s representation of Windows PCs in Leopard.
One of the new features in Leopard is easy access to computer on the local network, which show up, conveniently, on the left side of the window. Like with nearly all things, Apple has paid a lot of attention to the feature, to the point that the icons of each and every computer there tries to match what the computer product actually looks like on its owner’s desk. With Macs this is easy, since Apple can quickly identify the exact model of the networked machine, but with a PC, things are a bit more complicated since there are so many makes and parts in them. To solve this, Apple represents all Windows PCs as a beige monitor with a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). Read More»
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