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A reviewer for the Houston Chronicle was so enamored of the Apple iMac he was using for a project that he talked his accountant-wife into buying one for himself, according to his story in the Houston Chronicle on Monday. It wasnit Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus either; it was a book author, Dwight Silverman, who was…

Ben Rudolph, the Director of Corporate Communications at Parallels, provided some guidance on Wednesday how to handle the expiration of the Boot Camp beta license when Leopard ships this month. “If youire not ready to upgrade to Leopard right away and still want to use your Boot Camp partition, Parallels makes life very, very easy,”…

The new AOL Desktop for Mac marks the first major update to the application in over five years. It improved load time, added tabbed navigation, supports AOL Instant Messenger, and improved overall security. The AOL Desktop for Mac public beta is free to download, and is available at the AOL beta project Web site.

, in conjunction with Sandlot Games, announced the immediate availability of the family-friendly game, Cake Mania for Mac OS X on Thursday. Red Marble described the game as, “a wildly popular game on the PC and other gaming platforms, and winner of the prestigious iParenting Media Award, Cake Mania serves up countless delights that will…

Monopoly Here & Now

Fairy Treasure for the Mac

Vista, while still Windows through and through, improves on XP and makes PCs more fun and productive, according to Andrew Fishkin at Low End Mac on Friday. Mr. Fishkin is a longtime Mac user whois been using Vista for eight months. Mr. Fishkin has been evaluating Vista Business on an experimental basis on his IBM…

A Windows user, tested a new iMac, recalled fond memories of the original Bondi Blue iMac, was impressed with how the iMac has grown up, and was almost ready to make the leap, according to a story published by the Associated Press on Wednesday. However, there were some flies in the ointment. Rather, “maggots in…

The old iMac was chintzy plastic, but the new iMacs are once again physically desirable, according to a columnist at Tech.co.uk on Monday. Even so, he said the digital media features customers have come to expect from Apple are missing in the new iMac. “Now that weive all recovered from the effects of Steve Jobsi…

C|Net gave the new Apple iMac itis Editorsi Choice Award on Wednesday. The iMac was cited for its best-in-class design, solid feeling, thin but solid keyboard, iLife i08, and performance in multimedia benchmarks. C|Net noted that, regarding the internal hardware, the changes have been simply generational, with new CPU speeds and graphics card updates. Except…

Kodawarisan tears down a new iMac.

The PCI Express-based expansion card supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and JBOD. It includes a 256MB cache and a 72-hour battery to protect the cache in the event of a power outage, and connects to the four internal drive bays in the Mac Pro. It is priced at US$999, and is available now at…

Your Mac Life (YML), with Shawn King, which airs every Wednesday night, will feature a chat with photographer Aaron Johnson, creator of What the Duck? “What the Duck is a daily comic strip that debuted a year ago and, much to its creatoris surprise, is still going strong 260+ strips later,” Shawn King said. “What…

Taking a cue from Appleis own Get A Mac TV commercials, Parallels has posted their own humorous video which emphasizes how the customer can have the best of both worlds. “We took a different approach than the real ads, so instead of having PCs and Macs argue over which is better, we decided to show…

The new version also added support for Mac OS X 10.5, fixed a problem with modal dialogs, improved processor usage, and more. Default Folder X 3.0.5 is priced at US$34.95, and is available for download at the St. Clair Software Web site. The update is free for version 3 users.

Safari 3, which presumably will be released along with Mac OS X 10.5 in October, will offer faster HTML rendering than Internet Explorer and Firefox, according to Mr. Jobs. In fact, Safari 3 is to be twice as fast as Internet Explorer 7. Like previous versions of Safari, Safari 3 retains familiar features like tabbed…

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The vulnerability takes advantage of HTTP content scanning systems that donit properly scan full-width/half-width Unicode encoded HTTP traffic. An attacker that sends properly designed HTTP traffic to a vulnerable content scanning system could potentially bypass the scanning system and gain remote access to the network device or computer. The US-CERT advisory states that Apple systems…

Parallels, maker of the Desktop Virtualization software for Mac OS X, announced on Wednesday that their exclusive U.S. distributor, Tech Data, has just started selling Parallels Desktop plus Windows XP in 13 pre-configured packages, preinstalled on Macs, to resellers. The Macs include: Apple Mac mini, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. No reseller or…