New phishing scam targets MobileMe users February 26th, 2009 In another attempt to con MobileMe users into providing their credit card information, a scammer has sent out spam spoofed to appear to come from Apple, which directs users to a fake site designed to look like Apple’s. Users who follow the email link and enter […]
Well, Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical computer… It wasn’t actually constructed into 1991, but still the plans were from 1871… Punch cards are from 1725 (Basile Bouchon & Jean-Baptiste Falcon), but here’s proof of a thumb drive from that era… Okay, maybe proof is too strong of a word, but still… It’s a neat […]
We just ran into this problem with Pointsec as well…. Pointsec certificate expiring – may cause upgrade problems: “This morning Checkpoint released a bulletin about a problem affecting Pointsec for PC version 6.2.0 (with HFA1 or HFA2) and 6.3.0. The certificate that the software uses to validate recovery files and log files has expired. As […]
SEATTLE, Washington — February 24, 2009 — The Omni Group has released four of their software applications as freeware: OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter. All versions are fully functional with no licensing restrictions, and are available at no cost from The Omni Group’s website at http://www.omnigroup.com/. “As a small company with limited resources, we have […]
I personally use Time Machine for backing up at home. Â With a single 500 Gb drive, I can backup virtually everything on my desktop system, except for the DVR collection… Â Generally for months… But, recently, I had an issue at work. Â We have several Time Capsules that have had wireless failures, and needed to have […]
Making sense of Mac market share figures: “ Mac market share has been a hot topic ever since Apple staggered into (and subsequently crawled out of) the gutter in the mid-90s. It has been a slow but steady climb to the point where, as of late, Apple has set quarter after quarter of records when […]
The rules that Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, and others don’t allows follow. Â The 11 Commandments of writing a good software installer… http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2009/02/on_installers.html
I just noticed, that a utility that I use, called “WinRestart” doesn’t seem to have much publicity… Â It’s a simple utility that will reboot the Macintosh, but you can selective restart to a specific partition, just for the next reboot. Typically with Bootcamp, you select the Windows partition, and then after you are done on […]