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” I can understand and applaud the goal, but not the methods,” said Mr. OiGorman. “By limiting published source code to that which is iinfectedi by the GPL [GNU General Public License — editor], Apple is, in my honest opinion, scoring an own goal,” he added, referring to the soccer term that describes a team…

Hereis the deal: Thereis a Library folder sitting at the root level of your hard drive. This is where Dashboard widgets, Screen Savers, some startup items and several other things get installed by default. Any item that gets installed into this Library folder affects every user on your Mac. Since your Home Directory also has…

Appleis update notes: The 10.4.5 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies: iChat video conferencing Safari rendering of web pages usability of Dashboard and widgets viewing of QuickTime streaming media behind a firewall printing to some Epson printer models…

The statistical change is small enough that each of the browsers essentially held its own for the month.

“Attackers have been focused on the [Intel] x86 for over a decade,” Oliver Friedrichs, a senior manager at Symantec Corp. Security Response, told the reporter. “Macintosh will have a lot more exposure than when it was on PowerPC.” Mr. Friedrichs pointed out that hackers “have access to hundreds of documents and examples of how to…

Mr. Archibald added that Apple has left its code “relatively under-audited, which leaves a lot of low-hanging bugs.” As an example, he cited the now-patched “dsidentity” bug, which affected Mac OS X v10.4. It “could have easily been exploited to grant a non-privileged user with admin rights and allow that user to create and remove…

Users enter their queries into DEVONagent as they would with any search tool, using special qualifiers such as NEAR to gain even finer control over what theyire looking for. The software then presents the query to about 135 search engines. Once the tool gets results, it doesnit just display text and links, but also displays…

In addition, Salling Clicker 3.0.1 features better support for controlling EyeTV, DVD Player and QuickTime. This is a free upgrade for registered users. The full software sells for US$23.95 and requires Mac OS X v10.3.9, along with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity between the device and the computer.

"The ease with which the customer can set up a Macintosh network, the ease with which a Macintosh computer can find and connect to hardware on the network," Salon Transcripts Chief Technology Officer Aaron Conti said in the article, "those aspects are critical to customers in the beauty industry. Most salon owners donit have an…

The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes fixes for: AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support disc recording when creating and burning media .Mac…

What this means, according to Twin Mac, is that software built with this update wonit run on the pirated copies of Intel OS X that are currently floating around the Internet. The site notes: “Apple is expected to deploy much stronger TPM [Trusted Platform Module] checks to final candidate builds, if not already implemented, in…

A t its Developer Forum this week, Intel reiterated that it plans to release beta versions of both its compiler and performance libraries for Mac OS X later this year. The tools will be released as plug-ins for Appleis Xcode software and will especially appeal to those who already use Intel tools for Linux and…

Reporter Mark Baard says that a hacker who calls himself “cmoski” has claimed that OSx86 seems to run faster on the PCs than Mac OS X does today on the current generation of Mac computers. “Some in the Pentium camp want to say, iBecause a Pentium is faster, of course,i some want to say (Intel…

Mr. Kirkpatrick points out that Dell, though, “has for several years fearlessly — and lucratively — sold servers loaded with Linux, the operating system Microsoft reviles and dreads. And as the industryis top dog, it wields more bargaining power with Microsoft than other PC-makers.” So he decided to e-mail Michael Dell, who responded: “If Apple…