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The Mac OS X print dialog includes a Priority option that’s neatly tucked away in an unassuming pop-up menu. You can use this option to tell the other Macs on your network that your print job is more or less important than other print jobs. Here’s how: Choose File > Print to open the Print…

A recent patent filing from Apple Inc may offer a glimpse into the company’s future plans for Mac OS X, including a three-dimensional Desktop. The revamped interface design could allow for stacked items and offer ways to essentially grab objects that are covered by other icons, and to group objects closer to you or farther…

This holiday season, many people will be delving into HDTV for the first time — perhaps on a tight budget. With Black Friday just around the corner, and some amazing deals likely to be offered, the newbie buyer needs a lot of help wading through the new HDTV technology. At the iPod Observer, John Martellaro…

Mr. Hubbard was at the Large Installation System Administration, or LISA, Conference to talk about the Mac OS X path from servers to embedded platforms. During that talk, he discussed the release cycle for Mac OS X, and specifically mentioned the pending first quarter launch for Mac OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard wonit add as…

Billings 3 from Marketcircle, Inc. is designed to track projects for clients, account for time spent, invoice clients and track payments. Itis perfect for small businesses, freelance writers and Web developers, for example, and it exploits good Cocoa development principles. One of the key advantages is its ability to present a professional look to the…

Migration Assistant 1.0.6 is now the latest version for Mac OS X 10.4.11 users, and Migration Assistant 1.2.3 is the current version for Mac OS X 10.5.5 users. The updates are available via the Software Update application, or as downloadable installers at the Apple Support Web site.

Firefox continued its upward trend as well, moving from 19.22 percent of the browser market in July up to 19.75 percent in August. Safari and Firefox have been on an upward swing for months as interest in both browsers continues to grow. In comparison, Internet Explorer has been losing market share to both for well…

Late on Thursday, Psystar filed its official response to Apple in a 54 page document with the U.S. Northern District of California. In it, Psystar claims that Apple is abusing its copyrights in order to establish an anticompetitive tying of Mac OS X to Apple hardware and that that tying creates an illegal monopoly. Earlier…

Unti l recently, my problems with junk email far exceeded the norm. On a typical day, I would get several hundred junk messages, sometimes approaching 1000. Still worse, despite my best efforts at using various junk mail filters, many of these worthless missives evaded detection and wound up in my main Inbox. Long ago, I…

SecureMac has posted an advisory about a Mac OS X Trojan Horse that exploits a vulnerability in the Apple Remote Desktop Agent and allows the malware to run as root. The vulnerability is rated critical. The Trojan Horse runs hidden on the system and allows a malicious user complete remote access to the system. It…

Psystar has announced two new rack-mount servers. The 1U OpenServ 1100 has an Intel Xeon Harpertown CPU (2.5 GHz) Quad core processor in the base configuration and four drive bays. The 2U OpenServ 2400 has six drive bays. OSes supported include Microsoft Server 2003/2008, CentOS, Ubuntu Server, and Mac OS X Leopard Server. The default…

The update is a 60 MB download for Mac OS X 10.5.x, and can be found in Software Update. Windows users can look for the update under Update in iTunes.

The PC world has been eagerly waiting for the final release of Window XP, Service Pack 3 (SP3). However, Mac users who plan to install it in their virtualization environment should know that Microsoft has tested the service pack under those conditions as well. Planning for the upgrade, however, is little different than installing on…