The best value for a machine running Mac OS X right now is the Dell Vostro A90 netbook, which is on sale for an unbelievable $199. It’s less than the price of an iPod touch. You can purchase a machine that runs desktop-class Mac OS applications and a Web browser with Flash. The Vostro A90 [...]
06.3.09 | Computer News | admin
Xee Xee is a fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It also uses much less memory than most image viewing tools. Xee also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts. Seashore Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa [...]
05.24.09 | Software Review | admin
We are going to cover some of the most used system applications for Mac. Caffeine Caffeine is small program for Mac that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. It can be clicked to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Just click [...]
Dina Dai Zovi, an independent security professional in the financial services industry, demonstrated at a conference how to defeat Mac OS X by gaining access to its root memory. A few lines of arbitrary code will enable any attacker to take over a computer, establish a TCP connection and download additional malicious code.
03.23.09 | Software Review | admin
A vulnerability was reported in Apple iTunes. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions on the target system as well as sending a Digital Audio Protocol (DAAP) message containing a specially crafted Content-Length parameter value to cause the target iTunes application to enter an infinite loop.
03.18.09 | Computer News | admin
Apple, on Tuesday, released Safari 4 beta, a new version of its browser for Mac OS X and Windows. This update brings a bunch of new features, including a flashy new Top Sites view, a completely redesigned Windows UI, and support for some impressive emerging Web standards. Headlining Apple’s feature list is Top Sites, a [...]
03.5.09 | Software Review | admin
Microsoft is rushing out an emergency patch, while other browser makers are releasing their own updates as well as people worldwide go online to do their shopping. Opera released version 9.63 of their browser, fixing several security issues. The most significant ones allow arbitrary code execution, making these just as critical as the Internet Explorer [...]
01.23.09 | Software Review | admin
Apple released an update to its Mac OS X operating system, closing 21 security holes in various components, including the software’s kernel, core services and the Adobe Flash Player plug-in. The patch, which upgrades the operating system to version 10.5.6, fixes at least a half dozen vulnerabilities that could allow remote-execution attacks. The fix for [...]
01.7.09 | Computer News | admin
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