A non repairable threat attack has continued since Sunday, against all Microsoft Windows operating systems (not DOS) eminating from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. Trojan comes attached to a phishing spam claiming to be from Western Union. Continue reading »
O’Reilly Media and TechWeb have opened the Call for Participation for the second edition of Web 2.0 Expo New York, scheduled for November 16-19 at the Javits Center in New York City. Continue reading »
In today’s world of bad news, drive-by media, and know-it-all talking heads, it’s no wonder people are walking around in a state of depression. How do you feel? Did you know it’s not your fault? Would you like a little optimism in your life? Continue reading »
I believe that this film was originally telecast on PBS back in 1996. It starts out with a lot of detail about the MITS computer, the Altair which was the first “personal computer.” It was the one that caused Bill Gates and Paul Allen to drop out of college and provide BASIC for the Altair. Continue reading »
After April’s rumblings of the iBotNet virus attacking Macs, which got little or no press, those of us on the frontlines knew is was basically a hoax Trojan that infected a very small number of Macs. This week, Bob Levitus wrote for The Chronicle, putting the situation in perspective saying “Virus’ isn’t what you’ve heard it is” Continue reading »
The classic game for the Mac, Myst is now available for the iPhone. Continue reading »
Pages in iLife ’09 is really a good update. But we can always use more templates and Jumsoft has announced an upgrade to its selection of templates for Pages by releasing 50 new ones. Pages templates can be easily applied to a vast range of documents including brochures, invitations, memos, invoices, flyers, photo albums, newsletters, catalogues, business cards, etc. enhancing their visual identity. Continue reading »
App Update is a free Dashboard Widget, (they do have a donation button on their web site) that can automatically check for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. It will present you with a tidy link list of all the updates found, enabling you to read release-notes and download the the updates quickly and painlessly. Continue reading »
nFinity Inc. last week announced the release of QuickVoice PRO Recorder 1.1, a new version of its popular recorder featuring high tech Voice-to-Text emailing. QuickVoice’s Voice-to-Text technology is powered by SpinVox, the world’s largest commercial speech platform. QuickVoice Pro users will be able to use their iPhones to record short voice messages, which are automatically converted to perfectly formatted text emails by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user’s choice. Continue reading »
As any long term computer user can tell you, we normally use only 20-30% of an application’s features. We get comfortable with what we are doing and don’t expand our knowledge any further.
MacTips has a pretty good article on using Address Book. Continue reading »
I had really meant to go to the ACD meeting last month. I had been working Saturdays from 3 to 9 and figured I could make the trip to Richardson in the AM and still make it back to Fort Worth for my afternoon shift. But then at the last minute the new schedule showed me starting work at noon. So that meant I could attend the main meeting and see Dr. Mac. But as it turned out, I at least could see and hear his presentation over the ‘net. Continue reading »
Some private investigators are finding it tough in these troubled economic times. But not this Atlanta Private Detective agency, thanks to their gumshoe marketing techniques driven by a bank of 24 Intel Macs. Using the latest Apple iMacs and iPhones, Eagle Investigative Services go about marketing their investigation business in a unique way. Continue reading »
Ambrosia Software, has rolled out the release of Snapz Pro X 2.1.5. This updated version fixes occasional problems when dubbing audio, along with other enhancements and fixes. Continue reading »
Dragan Milic announced Springy 1.5.2 late last month. It is a powerful archiving utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some incredibly useful features. Users have the ability to see at a glance, the contents of an archive or disk image without being forced to extract any file from it, add, and/or extract files of choice from an existing archive, as well as previewing them. All archiving tasks can be done via Drag and Drop or through Finder contextual menu plug-in. Continue reading »
Late last week, Roadside Attraction announced the release of CraigsHarves 1.1 as well as the release of the Lite version. Continue reading »
