A couple of weeks ago word started spreading to Apple forums that there was malware installed on some systems. Discussion has continued to grow, and even security companies have reported that there is, indeed, a virus for macs in the wild. Seemingly the only company who is still denying the existence of the bug is [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Windows Phone 7 Sync for Mac coming by end 2010
If you’re an Apple Mac or iMac user and have been looking longingly at Windows Phone 7 then, up until now you’ve probably been disappointed. While it’s not necessary to ever synchronise the phones with a computer, it’s still the best way to transfer files and your existing music collection to the devices. So the [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Windows Live Sync for Mac now Available
Windows Live Sync, formerly Live Mesh and part of the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 Suite is now available for the Apple Mac, as reported by Windows Observer. The beta can be downloaded hereas a .dmg file. Live Sync is an excellent tool that I’ve come to rely on myself for automatically syncing files and [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Linux equivalents to popular Mac apps
In my most recent article (“Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux“) I outlined ways to help end-users transfer from the Mac operating system to the Linux operating system. It was suggested to me that I should cover applications that could serve as replacements for popular Mac apps. Your wish is [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux
In my most recent article “Five ways to ease the migration from Windows to Linux” I examined how you can help new users make the migration from Windows to Linux easier. Most know the very philosophies behind both of those operating systems are very different. Because of that, many often need a bit of hand-holding in order [...]
Quickly capture screens and share them on OS X with Skitch
Macs don’t have a PrintScreen button, and if we want to take a screen-capture, the default program we use is Grab. Grab is great in a few ways; you can choose to use a timer before a screen-capture is taken and it can be used to ensure only a certain area of the screen is [...]
XNJB: Transfer music to and from a MTP MP3 player on a Mac
When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]
- Author: David Pierce
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How To Make Free Calls From Your Computer With Google Voice
About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google Voice (back then, it was called GrandCentral, and I still wanted it really, really badly). Google Voice has a ton of great features, [...]
A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya
Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards. Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with [...]