I like Leopard Cache Cleaner. It’s a great Mac utility that is far more than the sum of its parts. The only real problem is the name. It needs a new name because it does more, far more, than clean Leopard’s caches. Reality Bytes Most of us don’t do much with our Macs other than … Read More »
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Leopard 10.5.3
Latest update for Mac OS X Leopard. 10.5.3 fixes plenty of bugs and weighs in at a whopping 536 megabytes for the Combo download (recommended). The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac Bug … Read More »
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Times: The RSS newspaper for your Mac
Detailed ArsTechnica review of Times, an attractive RSS newsreader that displays headlines and summary in a newspaper print-like layout. Times’ main window… is easily one of the app’s greatest strengths. Eschewing the current standard of a left sidebar containing feeds with a central content area for browsing articles, Times separates itself from the pack by … Read More »
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Use this tool and say goodbye to spam
There are two kinds of plagues that haunt email users. Spam and phishing. If you’re smart, you can avoid phishing scams. If you have multiple email accounts then how do you avoid spam? Both are a blight on humanity, but spam can be avoided, managed, and almost eliminated. Here’s how… Black Plague If you’ve been … Read More »
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Apple ignores Safari carpet bomb flaw (for now)
Safari security issues giving you the blues? Nitesh Dhanjani and StopBadware.org are livid blue, calling the Safari ‘carpet bomb’ flaw a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than (sic) it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user’s Desktop (Windows) or Downloads directory (~/Downloads/ in OSX) with executables masquerading as legitimate icons. … Read More »
Monday, May 19, 2008
Mac market share up to 66-percent (PCs over $1,000)
No matter how the numbers are sliced and diced, Apple’s Mac sales are exploding, mostly in the above $1,000 price range, of course. Joe Wilcox in AppleWatch: Apple’s retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more. Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter brick-and-mortar stores, … Read More »
Monday, May 19, 2008
TopXNotes: Where simple can be better (almost)
Deep into the information age, Mac users have gathered an array of complex tools to help us deal with keeping track of everything. From Stickies to Yojimbo, we have access to everything we can think of and much we can’t remember—all just a click away. The only problem is the complexity of the tools to … Read More »