Apple has inadvertently opened the Mac to malware exploitation through Dashboard. Shortly after the release of Mac OS X Tiger, one developer claims he has already found a way to turn widgets into potentially malicious…
Many users are puzzled or sense a feeling of loss when their Mac crashes. Don’t get us wrong. Macs are resilient but nothing is absolute. Not even Macs. As we align with Apple’s theme, that…
A couple of years ago, the DivX video codec came onto the scene as a high compression standard for video. Along with it features that proposed to provide similar features and functions you would expect…
With the introduction of a built-in dictionary, Mac users can now look up words without accessing an application. Although, Dashboard seems the fastest way to find out meanings to new words you come across, there…
Not that we disbelieve Steve when Apple claims Spotlight can, “Find anything, anywhere, fast.” We just had to put it to the test and we ended up red in the face with the results. We attached as…
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger certainly packs a wallop not just in the fancy stuff. The latest built-in firewall has the guys (and girls) at Macriot impressed. Tiger now comes with user accessible advanced firewall…
There’s a less known feature in Airport base stations that doesn’t really serve any useful purpose other than parading your quip remarks to people who log onto your WiFi network. Nevertheless, its a cool personal…
You’d tend to think that with advances in OS technology and the introduction of newer versions of applications, things get easier. Sadly, this is not the case for the popular iSync application. “Do you find…
Thanks to Ben Kazez and Nick Takayama you can now view iCal events and To Do items on your Dashboard. Not only can you view the entries but they are coloured co-ordinated to match your iCal entries! Download your…
For everything we laud Mac OS X Tiger to be, nothing is totally infallible and sometimes some system preferences can become corrupted. This often causes your Mac to behave unpredicatbly. We received this question from…