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Apple unveiled the year's fifth major security update for Mac OS X to patch 17 vulnerabilities, but fewer than a third could lead to hackers injecting their own code into a compromised system.
The release also marked the first time this year that an operating system security update from Apple did not patch a vulnerability disclosed by the January "Month of Apple Bugs" project.
This is a very useful list of what you can achieve during bootup.
When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.
The higher risk posed by QuickTime stems from slack patching by users. According to an analysis of more than 350,000 system checks done over the last six months by the free Secunia Software Inspector, 33.1 per cent of all QuickTime 7 installations weren't up to date with security patches. Another music player, AOL's Winamp, was almost as likely to be outdated: 27 per cent of Winamp 5 installations were missing needed security fixes.
A preview build of Firefox has been released by the Mozilla developer Josh Aas. This new experimental build is equipped with native Mac OS X form controls, that should help in making it look and feel more like an OS X program. Currently, the build is only available for the latest Intel-based Macs, though a PowerPC version has been promised.
If you are using the OS X firewall, and you've recently installed Creative Suite 3, you should probably be checking your firewall right about now. That's because the Adobe Version Cue CS3 installer will shut off your firewall. More specifically, during the installation for Version Cue, the installer has to turn off the firewall in order to set up some TCP ports.
A plethora of announcements were enough to get eager Mac users drooling for Leopard, so the delay hit them hard. But while they will have to wait for the new OS, they don't have to wait to add some Leopard-like features to their Macs. Shareware and commercial tools already make it possible to add many of these features (or something similar) to the current Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger.
Apple on Thursday received the official go-ahead on its first ever mobile handset, as regulators for the Federal Communications Commission gave the iPod maker the green light to commence sales of the device in the United States.
Among the many tools that make up Adobe CS3 is a new audio-editing addition—Soundbooth CS3. Available in beta form since late October 2006, Soundbooth won’t see official release until this summer. Unlike most audio editors, which are designed largely for audio professionals and enthusiasts, Soundbooth was created with video in mind.
Today it seems the classic game ROM community is growing and growing as more and more are discovering how to play classic arcade and console games on their computers. For a long time, the Mac platform has lacked great emulators that feature solid compatibility and a full-set of features. However, some developers are working hard to build solid emulators and more and more Mac users are enjoying the same classic games their PC friends have been enjoying for quite some time.
As it tries to finish the next version of Office for the Mac, Microsoft has delayed efforts to enable current users of the productivity software to work with the new file formats used in the latest Windows version of the desktop software.
Apple today updated its MacBook consumer notebooks with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and larger hard drives in every model. The MacBook is just one-inch thin and features built-in 802.11n wireless networking for up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g.
Featuring a gorgeous 13-inch glossy widescreen display, the one-inch thin MacBook comes in three models: sleek white 2.0 GHz and 2.16 GHz MacBook models, and a stunning black 2.16 GHz MacBook model. The MacBook includes a built-in iSight video camera for video chatting on-the-go with friends or family using iChat AV, recording a video podcast or iMovie using iLife ‘06, or taking fun snapshots with Photo Booth. Designed for the mobile lifestyle, the MacBook includes Apple’s MagSafe Power Adapter that magnetically connects the power cord to the MacBook and safely disconnects when under strain, and the latest generation of 802.11n wireless networking for up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g. essay writing service
Podcasts and YouTube and streaming Internet radio may be the latest trend, but there's still a lot of good content on the old AM/FM radio. The problem with it is that we are often not actively tuning in to the radio to catch a program, but rather leave the radio on in the background. The Radio Shark from Griffin changes that, by providing a "Tivo" like service for your radio, with time-shifting technology.
What can you do with the Mac Pro's extra drive bays? One of the coolest things is to fill them with the highest-capacity hard drives you can find and then configure those drives in a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent [or Inexpensive] Disks). But what exactly is a RAID, and how do you set one up? The answers are in this article.
Macs are not immune to hard drive or system startup problems. On occasion, something may go wrong during the boot process and your computer just sits there. If you have enough open space on your iPod, you can use it as an emergency startup disk. Then, if you experience the frightening feeling of not having your Mac boot properly, you can at least boot it from the iPod and possibly repair the problem or at least move some of your files off the boot drive.
Off-site backups have two problems: how do you get the data to the off-site location, and is the off-site location secure? A lot of data isn't sensitive at all. Another set of data is somewhat sensitive, but not so much so that having someone else see it would be a disaster, and it's not of much interest to others anyway. Then there is the category of highly sensitive information. This includes passwords, anything financial, information that can be used for identity theft, compromising photos, death threats, that kind of thing.
It's not always the full-blown software applications that make the biggest difference on your computer; often it's the small do-one-thing-well utilities that enhance our computing experience that much more.
Security professionals need not hide behind the argument that avoiding Microsoft products is the end-all solution to a secure computing environment. Security professionals have much better reasons, and those were amplified when I talked to other folks at CEIC 2007 over the last few days.
This tutorial will take you each and every step of the way through installing Linux programs in OS X - using Fink and FinkCommander.
To whatever degree Apple can be said to make products with a distinctive genetic code, they can also be said to have inherited most of their traits from a single parent: founder Steve Jobs. Jobs left the company in 1985 and didn't return until 1997. Nonetheless, according to many who have worked at Apple, sometimes in close proximity to Jobs, it was largely he who established the company's emphasis on industrial design. Indeed, some would say that he made design a higher priority than technology.
The Mac OS X command line interface is home to thousands of programs that the average user doesn’t know exists. Leveraging years of hard work by the GNU foundation and others in the open source community, Apple designed a wonderful OS that doesn’t “need†any use of the command line. While using the command line in Mac OS X is not necessary for the every day operation of a Macintosh, if harnessed correctly, it can save you a lot of time, and occasionally give you a laugh.
For those who don't know, Mac OS X packages are simply folders disguised to look like single files. The most common examples are applications. They are just folders containing all the data files for the application that open up as an application rather than folder when you double-click them in the Finder.
This article discusses Kerberos in Mac OS X and how the protocol is used for secure Single Sign On authentication. The importance of this secure, standards-based methodology will be discussed from both a system administrator and developer perspective.
When it was introduced as part of Tiger, the eye-candy factor was quite high, even compared to Konfabulator. With a few years of Dashboard under its belt, Apple is ratcheting up Dashboard's graphics once again, presumably for Leopard. They've recently applied for a patent on "Multiple Dashboards" that highlights some of the upcoming graphical and functionality changes, and boy are there a lot of them.
Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and more people are using Apple notebooks these days. Apple has a significant market share in the desktop space.
From anonymous nerds on the Internet to six-figure analysts in corner offices, everyone is talking about a rumored subnotebook from Apple, the MacBook Pro Thin. The transition to Intel and fabulous new technologies like a non-crippled FSB, and the notable failure of the 12" PowerBook to make the transition, has only heightened the sense of anticipation. Recently, several rumors have come together to form supposition, which, unfortunately, might not be good news for those pining away over an MBT.
This brief tutorial will show you how to automatically mount a Windows shared folder when OS X starts.
