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 software. Developers have successfully produced widgets that can hijack browsers and run full user access without the user’s express permission. […]Read More
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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 sporting a ‘digital lifestyle’ is about the hippest thing you can do this decade, its an inevitable conclusion that an increasing portion […]Read More
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 to find in your common DVD movie. Effectively, touting to bring DVD quality video over the Internet. After unpacking your […]Read More
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 is a shorter, faster, way. To quickly find out the meaning of a word, highlight the word and use […]Read More
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 many hard drives that we could to a PowerMac and set Spotlight to work on the 5 hard drives. After […]Read More
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 features you would expect from firewall applications that you normally have to buy as an add-on to your computer these […]Read More
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 touch to make your WiFi network unique. You can either place a warm welcome greeting or scare off hackers who […]Read More
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 trouble syncing devices using iSync 2.1? Ever wonder why?” Before iSync 2.1, it used to be in earlier versions of […]Read More
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 iCal Events and R2ToDo widgets now: iCal Events R2ToDoRead More
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 Tom in USA under our WiFi | Transferring Files Wirelessly article: "Hi! I successfully created a wireless network using my iMac several […]Read More
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