2005 April

Aunty is involved with a brand new website called “Mac Your Life”.
It’s still a baby, fledgingly site, but the premise is that MacYourLife.com is not your usual Mac website. In fact, Mac Your Life turns your typical Mac website on its head - this is not a site about what you can do with […]

Computer mail-order outfit Tiger Direct has sued Apple, Inc, in the 11th hour, over Apple’s use of the name “Tiger” on Apple’s newest release of OS X. How stupid is that?

I love writing articles about great Mac software. You might remember the one thing I’ve always felt about Macs was that the software, whether commercial, shareware or freeware is head and shoulders above the PC programs. I looked at another quality piece of software from another unique, and imaginative company. Rogue Amoeba just keeps improving […]

Most of us use keyboard shortcuts everyday. Probably the most common are Command-C for copy and Command-V for paste. For a lot of people having to selected Copy-Paste from the edit menu everytime they needed these functions would be unthinkably slow. But OS X offers a rich array of keyboard shortcuts that are far less […]

Many of Aunty’s gentle readers know that Aunty adores her T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton’s Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, providing always-on email, AOL Instant Messenger, Web browsing, and lots of other […]

No one is as anxious as I am to see the new Tiger OS X when it’s released on April 29th, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned is that you never want to be an early adopter if you have a business critical system. What do I mean? Does anyone remember the first release […]

Secunia Advisory: SA14974
Critical: Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass, Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
OS: Apple Macintosh OS X
Software: Safari 1.x
Apple has issued an update for Mac OS X, which fixes various vulnerabilities….

Apple has released another update to Panther, which is OSX 10.3.9, before
Tiger ships at the end of this month. This upgrade will include updates
to Stickies Safari, Mail, and Finder. I know I am looking forward to
Tiger after seeing some demos from Apple’s site. You can get this update
from the updater in Mac OS […]

Since everyone is buzzing about Tiger, the newest version of Apple’s powerful Mac OS X system, I thought it was time to share that in addition to being a business and communications strategist, I’m also a secret tech guy. Part of being a geek is that I’m among a team of very sharp Mac writers […]

If you find yourself needing a big battery boost for your iPod, check out an older article I did on the Tekkeon myPower battery pack for the iPod. My wife loves the myPower because it gives her weeks between charges and the added size profile is not a big problem for her.

Now she wanted to […]

Now may be the right time to get a .Mac account. I say that for several reasons, first, .Mac account users always receive a bunch of freebies with their account, and Apple just announced that they are giving a month of T-Mobile Wireless access for free to .Mac users. If you like the T-Mobile service […]

“Secunia Advisory: SA14873
Critical: Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched
Software: Camino 0.x
A vulnerability has been discovered in Camino, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.
For more information:
SA14820
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.8.3. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Disable JavaScript […]

Dave, I’m thrilled, I just got a new Mac Mini to dip my toe into the world of Macintosh (I’m a long-time Windows user) and I’m wondering what applications you recommend I add to the unit to make it maximally useful?

FTP, or File Transfer Protocol Programs are something many of you do not use, but for anyone with their own website to manage, or that want to upload and download files much faster then using you browser, FTP programs are an important utility. When I switched several years ago, I felt that Mac FTP programs […]

Hi, I would to know if recording AND EDITING recordings (cut and recompose audio-video from TV and the Internet) through products like those of EyeTV is technically in reach of the average teacher without in depth knowledge of capturing and editing streaming video, for example. It is an issue for me as […]

The only time I have a chance to listen to podcasts on my iPod is while I’m driving in my car. The problem is my iPod slides around the cup holders or the compartments in the dash. Marware has a great solution for your iPod or cell phone or PDA that works in a vehicle […]

iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, a song by ’80s pop group the “Darling Buds” called “Tiny Machine.”
Masters’ […]

In 2000, Mr. Benjamin Cohen (London) purchased the domain name itunes.co.uk from a London registrar, Nominet. Earlier this month, Nominet handed the domain over to Apple without Mr. Cohen’s consent. Cohen has applied for a judicial review claim that Nominet doesn’t like small businesses, and Nominet claims that Cohen was abusing his domain by using […]

Although I’ve designed websites for years, I never enjoyed working with CSS style sheets. Whenever I could, I used tables or layers and avoided CSS like the plague. Along the way there have been a few CSS editors I tried but there was nothing I found that made working with style sheets any easier. Along […]

Dave, do tell, when are we unwashed masses going to be able to enjoy the goodness that will be Mac OS X 10.4, aka “Tiger”?