When Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 yesterday they said what most people were expecting them to, that a new tablet-friendly interface would be the default way to interact with the new version of the OS. This new Metro UI would load when you start Windows and that Microsoft expected most people to interact with Windows 8 [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Windows 7 Enterprise Security is better than OS X
Researchers at Black Hat have said that they’ve found Windows 7′s Enterprise security to be better than that of Apple’s OS X operating system. The problems for OS X seem to stem from user privileges. While Windows 7 isn’t perfect, OS X seems to have more “soft spots” according to a report by Network World. [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Apple to pioneer USB Drive Software
I’vee been waiting patiently for this moment for years and it comes as no surprise to me that it’s Apple leading innovation in the software sales market. The company launched their new OS X Lion operating system update as a download through the new Mac App Store. What they also announced however was that this [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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How long should we support old Windows versions?
Apple this week announced their new iCloud service, bringing together MobileMe and iTunes in the cloud. With it though they also announced they were dropping support for Windows XP from the new product. Indeed they were only supporting their own desktop operating system, OS X, going back four years to 10.5 ‘Leopard’ too. This raises [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 3
Is OS X Lion hinting at a Mac Tablet?
Yesterday Steve Job’s unveiling of a host of new Apple products and services was very well received, including the official product tour for the next version of OS X on the Mac desktop. Some of the features don’t seem to fit well with the current Mac lineup though and this has left me wondering if [...]
- 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
- Comments: 6
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 [...]