The register is discussing a study that claims that Steve Jobs was wrong, when he stated:
Adobe Flash is Buggy
Littered with Security Holes
and is a CPU Hog
According to tests from the Streaming Learning Center – an online media consultancy that conducts public seminars on the delivery of net video – Flash is no more of a [...]
If you’re buying your first HDTV or an upgrade from a starter set, your new television may deliver a better picture than the one you’re used to. But picking the right HDTV can be confusing, especially when your favorite blue-shirted salesperson may be steering you in a certain direction in hopes of a bigger commission. [...]
Microsoft has released updates for Office 2004 and 2008, which include security fixes for “vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
The Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.8 update is a mere 9.7 MB, and the Microsoft Office 2008 12.2.4 update is 221.5 MB.
If you use Office, it’s [...]
Apple Mail, especially earlier versions of Apple Mail, may start to slow down after a long period of time…
Evidently as everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects and [...]
I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine.
Mail picks up email and filters [...]
Well, if it isn’t one thing, it has to be another…. I’ve been suffering with these errors for a while, and I think I just stumbled upon the trigger…
3/9/10 12:37:56 PM [0x0-0x206e06c].com.ranchero.NetNewsWire[97172] Tue Mar 9 12:37:56 dhcp105-37 NetNewsWire[97172] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window
Here’s the thread I just found kCGErrorIllegalArgument errors with Camino 2.0.1. And it makes [...]
From MacOSXHints…
At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution.
I created a launchDaemon [...]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used [...]
Why do installers often ask you to close all your applications before installing a new software package? Does it actually matter whether you have open applications when installing new software?
It seems the norm these days is for installers/setup programs to request that you close all open applications before initiating the install process for a [...]
Normally to remove a file or folder from Time Machine, you would open Time Machine, highlight the file or folder, and then choose Remove from Backup in the options pull down.
But to do this with an invisible directory in the Finder by using Go -> Go to Folder… (command-shift-G) and enter the path. Once it’s [...]