10.5.3 Vaporizes Flash Player 10 Beta
If you have Flash Player 10 Beta installed on your Mac, Mac OS X 10.5.3 will erase it. This was done to ensure that everyone else got the latest security update, unfortunately the update package doesn’t run a version check to see if you have a Flash Player version newer than the one 10.5.3 includes. [...]
What Should be in Mac OS X 10.6
A list of 10 must-haves for Mac OS X 10.6. Why am I writing this right now? Tis the way of all things Apple. Now that Apple is wrapping up iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple will start looking to a unified operating system to upgrade both platforms from. Mac OS X Leopard was a half-Mac, half-iPhone [...]
Boot Camp Drives Update Themselves, Finally
While it didn’t initially, Apple Software Update for Windows now finally picks up the Boot Camp 2.1 update. This is actually a huge paradigm shift for PC markers. For the first time, Apple is updating all the drivers for all their systems in one payload. And, the software that is on every Mac will update [...]
Apple Regrets Scrapping Leopard Feature
There’s one feature that Apple, I’ve learned, really regrets scrapping from Leopard. Originally, Time Machine had a lot of additional features which didn’t make the final cut. One of the features was to use the free disk space on the boot drive as shadow copy storage. This mimicked a feature from Vista that does the [...]
Apple Refusing to Close Exchange Loop?
Come June, iPhone users will be able to use exchange. Great. With a Mail2Web free account, you’ll be able to sync your world of devices on Exchange. Your calendar, address book, and device info can all freely flow to your Windows Mobile phone, all your PCs, your iPhone, even your iPod touch. But what about [...]
Safari 3.1, A Good Thing
Safari 3.1 is out. This update makes a couple of big changes. First, Safari for Windows is now out of beta. Second, it brings Windows, Mac (Tiger & Leopard) builds into true sync… oh, and by sync, I mean they’re all much faster and in parity with one-another. I’ve been testing Safari 3.1 since it [...]
iCab Rises from the Ashes
iCab is best known as being the little browser that could for Mac. It is considered the best web browser for Mac OS 9, being the last to maintain active updates for the operating system. iCab kept a focus on being minimalist, which enabled it to run better on slower systems, a major plus when [...]
Joomla Still Doesn’t Get it on Migrating
“For those people interested in migrating from Joomla! 1.0 please note that this is a continuously evolving process and is likely to be refined and optimized heavily over the next few weeks as feedback is received. There is no immediate need for people to migrate existing Joomla! 1.0 sites to 1.5 so please be patient [...]
Yes, Secure Erase Trash is Broken in Leopard
If you’re like me, sometimes you get info that prying eyes might just want to see. Thankfully, there’s Secure Erase Trash in Leopard, which will cover the drive with zeros such that the data would be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible to recover. However, it’s simply not working in Leopard. Every time I run it [...]
Introducing the Mac OS Tune-Up
Today, I’ve rolled out the Mac OS Tune-Up, which is a collection of every Mac OS Software Update, as well as updates for software bundled for Mac, such as iLife. The goal of the tune-up is to allow you to copy all the available Mac OS software updates to a flash drive, DVD, or even [...]
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