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Seems like Apple has been having to sharpen it’s coding skills and getting patches out the door, and it is good to see they are doing the job. Apple on Friday released a software update to patch a vulnerability that hackers could use to break into the company’s popular iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets…. read more: Think [...]  While Windows users have been fighting this for a while, we now see that Apple’s OSX has some vulnerabilities of its own. Starting this past weekend articles like the one referenced below are showing up all over the internet. “A fake antivirus application is targeting Mac OS X computers using Apple’s Safari browser. Cybercriminals pushing MAC Defender, [...] The next article in our series on applications that run on all operating system platforms will look at office productivity. These were a little harder to find, and all of the productivity suites listed here have their ups and downs, but they all claim to be able to import Microsoft Office documents which is really [...] This series of articles will focus on free, and when possible open-source tools but not necessarily open source operating systems. The goal of this series of articles is to pull together applications that can be used on GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, and of course Microsoft Windows, so you can open, make changes, and save your data [...] Apple OSX hot-key cheat sheet. While most think of Apple’s OSX operating system being all graphical and mouse driven keyboard shortcuts still abound and make our computing lives much easier. The keyboard on Apple iMac’s are different than systems that run Microsoft Windows so I made myself a hot-key cheat sheet and thought I would share with [...] Continuing our beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS on Apple OSX. Today’s article is the second part of our series on using RSS feeds. If you have not read part one then please do so before continuing. Today we will look at Apple Mail running on the latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard. In the next [...] Day two of the new Mac is fairing much better than day one! I have found several Open Source packages that seem to fit into the Mac OSX desktop rather nice. For FTP I chose Cyberduck which is a straight forward FTP client that was quite simple to setup and use. For text editors I have [...] I bought my first Apple MacBook Pro this week! And since I have customers who ask about switching from Microsoft Windows to Apple Mac OSX, I wanted to share with my readers a few items that I have encountered with using the new system. The first day was spent manually downloading the system updates from Apple and exploring the desktop. Normally these [...] |
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