CodeWeavers recently, announced the coming availability of CrossOver for Mac OS X. Running off Wine, originally an open source implementation of Windows API that sits on top of X11 and Linux. Wine and CrossOver purport the ability to run regular Windows-based…
Apple Remote Desktop 3.0 (ARD) has been tweaked slightly since Apple Remote Desktop 2.0. To enable interactivity between the ARD server and the controlled client Mac systems, one of the first things that needs to be…
An uncommonly known fact that ships with every copy of MIcrosoft Office 2004 for Mac, is Microsoft’s implementation of VNC, known as Remote Desktop Connection (RDC). Using industry standard Virtual Network Computing (VNC) protocols, RDC does what Apple’s Remote Desktop…
Every time an application is launched in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, an application icon representing the application usually appears in your Dock to indicate that its running. Wouldn’t it be nice, if there was…
There’s a little known and lesser used feature built into Apple Safari that has become both the jewel to reporters everywhere and also the bane to administrators of educational facilities – “Summarize”. This built-in feature allows…
Its unfortunate that, the introduction of Expose and its associated short keys, results in an annoying behaviour in the line-up of PowerBooks and MacBook Pros that are equipped with ambient light sensors and illuminated keyboards….
Ever wonder why Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) some times doesn’t display web pages as they should? The Redmond-based software giant has ceased development of IE from as early as 2003 and has recently removed its…
CUPERTINO, California, 05 April 2006 – Apple has released Boot Camp Public Beta (an 82.9MB download), allowing Intel-based Mac owners to configure their Macs to support both Mac OS X and Windows partitions on a single hard drive….
Granted Software has come up with something that ought to have been included as part of Mac OS X. Now, for USD$6.95, you can keep an eye on your peripherals. Including network devices that connect/disconnect…
There’s nothing like getting some work done in a room filled with Air Tunes and tunes coming outta your Mac portable speakers simultaneously. Does it get any better than this? …Yes, it does. Thanks to a freeware offering from…