First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was […]
Folks, Here’s the newest version of the Remote Log Viewer for Indigo. It fixes a issue that was exposed when running under a Snow Leopard OS. The current days log file would appear to have duplicate entries… This was only a cosmetic issue, and has been fixed. The download for the release is available here…[download […]
It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the […]
Apple today introduced the iPad. The 0.5′-thick tablet weighs 1.5 lbs. and touts a 9.6′ LCD (IPN) display. It features built-in Bluetooth and 802.11n connectivity, accelerometer, and compass and will be available in sizes from 16GB to 64GB. It uses a proprietary 1GHz Apple processor; the battery is purported to feature up to 10 hours […]
I ran across this today… Â And was very suprised… 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) Exited with exit code: 1 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 1/21/10 10:10:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36804]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of […]
For some reason, the latest build of EyeTV v3.3 (5851) is not being detected by some earlier builds of v3.3 (eg. 5848). Â Build 5851 was just announced on MacUpdate, but you can force an update from El Gato, by entering this into a web browser: eyetv://checkforupdates?build=5851 EyeTV will then auto-launch and prompt you to OK […]
Well, it appears that Sophos may have resolved a problem with their On-Access Scanning & Retrospect 8.  While I have not had a chance to test this yet, Version 7.1.3 of Sophos has this in it’s release notes: Sophos Anti-Virus 7.1.3 Threat detection engine 3.04.1 Threat data 4.50, February 2010 New in this version This version […]
Apple has finally released Boot Camp v3.1 for Windows 32 & Windows 64 bit…. This update adds support for Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate), addresses issues with the Apple trackpad, turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not being used, and supports the Apple wireless keyboard and Apple Magic mouse. This update […]