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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 [...]  I was on twitter and saw a link to an article that discusses why the bad guys seem to be winning the IT or cyber security battle. This article is well written and offers readers many items to ponder and provides links to a lot of great tools. A couple of highlights from the article: Internet User Guide: [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] A beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS. Today’s article is the first in a series of short but informative articles on how to use a tool to collect information from different websites and bring them to your desktop for easy review and access. So let’s begin this series with a simple question: what exactly is an [...] 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 [...] Just sitting here on a glorious Saturday morning wondering what to write about, with the release of the iPad today it is tough to think about anything else going on in the tech world, but I’m not one to stand in line for a new product so let’s move on and discuss some items that I have been [...] |
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