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 apps natively on a MacIntel platform. Negating the need for a dual boot MacIntel. The implications of this, could cause […]Read More
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 done is to upgrade the ARD client on all the Mac systems involved. Usually, Mac OS X 10.4 ships with […]Read More
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 (ARD) cannot do. Manipulate Windows PCs from your Mac. Sadly, RDC does not possess the capability to observe a Windows PC. […]Read More
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 a quick and easy way to hide the running application’s icon away from prying eyes? This little modification that […]Read More
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 quick summaries of a selected block of text in Safari and greatly reduces processing time for reporters but at the […]Read More
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. Unless something is changed, Expose shares a few function keys with the illuminated keyboard controls; F8, F9 and F10. […]Read More
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 availability from its Mactopia site. For this same reason, Microsoft Internet Explorer no longer ships as part of the Mac OS X […]Read More
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. Giving them the ability to run Windows natively on their Intel-based Macs! In an unprecented move, Apple has launched the […]Read More
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 to your Mac. Utlising a floater window that flashes briefly in the center of your screen, Peripheral Vision, keeps you in […]Read More
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 Yellow Mug, Sizzling Keys empowers Mac users everywhere to do the one thing that makes the Mac a quick system to work […]Read More
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