Never Miss an Update Again: MacUpdater's Mac-Saving Magic!
Let Me share my little secret that I’ve been relying on for quite some time now - MacUpdater. This nifty app has been my trusted companion for seamless Mac software updates. Say godbye to the manual update grind and let MacUpdater take the wheel, keeping your Mac in top shape effortlessly.
OSX Tip: Add recently used application to your Dock
I recently came across a useful tip that I wanted to share by Peter Cohen, the managing editor at iMore. This tip has helped me cut down the number of apps in my doc, by creating a folder with my most recently used applications. Head over to iMore for the original article or drop inside and find out just how it works.
Update Java the safe way on OSX
We all know we shouldn’t click on links we don’t know, especially with so many phishing scams out there. Flash and Java updates have become one of the biggest forms of this. Many sites will prompt to update from a link.
So be safe and ONLY update Java and flash from your system preferences and never from a random popup asking you to update.
Follow these steps to update Java
Mac 101: Startup options
There may be a time when you need to troubleshoot a problem in OSX, a need to boot into a backup disk or launch into safe mode to diagnose a stubborn application. It's better to be ready then to get ready so keep this list of startup options on hand for the off chance you may need it.
OSX Zero Day Vulnerabilities
Google's Project Zero vulnerability research program does not just reaching Windows vulnerabilities. They have revealed the existence of three new zero-day vulnerabilities on the Mac platform.
Take a break from Yosemite beta | Disable notifications
Apple has seeded another Yosemite beta to developers this week. If you're like me and need a bit of downtime from the bugs and stability issues that comes along with beta’s. Take a brake by following the steps below.
QuickTip: Clean up duplicate entries in Moutian Lion's "Open with" Menu
Have you been annoyed by duplicate entries in Mountain Lion's "Open with" Menu? Join us for a quick tip, taking back control of your "Open with" menu.
QuickTip: Enable tabbing in OSX dialogs
Have you ever wished you can navigate OSX dialog boxes like you can on a PC, By TABBING? With this quick tweak of you Keyboard preferences we will having back to navigating dialogs with your keyboard like a pro. Follow these steps
quickTip: Enabling FTP on Mountain Lion
If your running Mountain Lion you may have noticed the missing FTP sharing options. Don't worry, FTP server is still there, even if it is a client installation and not a Server install.
Tips: Solve complicated Math problem with Soulver
Soulver is an awesome calculator app that lets you write out your math problem with words, list, and other real language to get a real, useful answer without confusing equations.
Headline: Mountain Lion Drops Support of Older Macs
Golden master build seeded apple has reported they have dropped support from some early 64-bit Macs that do support Lion.
Install: OSX Lion Development preview 4
OSX Lion Development preview 4 has hit the hands of developers. We are going to run though the installation and point out some things you should know about the process. Let dive right in here.
Create a Lion install USB: OSX Lion
Lion brings with it a new install method using the App Store but some of us still may want a CD or USB on hand to install from. Here is a quick run through on how to make a bootable Lion USB
Overview: OSX Lion
The anticipated release of Apples new Operating system named Lion will be released within a few weeks. In July you will be able to purchase OSX Lion for $29 which will give you the ability to install the new operating system right from the app store on up to 10 different machines with the same license.
Feature: OSX Lion Restart to Safari
OS X Lion's features have been known for a while now, however Apple has slipped a nice feature called "Restart to Safari" within it's user lock screen.
Headline: VMware vSphere 5 to add cloud support for OSX server
VMware has plans to support Mac OS X Server in their next release of vSphere. This product allows companies to build cloud infrastructures, offering a more flexible and management envirment than if they would allocate dedicated hardware to every server instance.
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Wi-Fi Diagnostics tool
It's seems apple as incorporated a Wi-Fi diagnostic utility in OSX 10.7 code named Lion. This thing looks awesome with graphs of Signal and Noise as well as the ability to capture raw data for diagnostic's by apple. All I can say wow one less application to buy else where.
WARNING: NEW-Mac OS X backdoor Trojan
Sophos one of the leading Antivirus software company's have found a new backdoor trojan targeting Mac OSX users. It seems it is a variant of a well-known remote access trojan (RAT) for windows users known as darkComet or BlackHole. However Sophos calles it OSX/MusMinim-A or MusMinim for short. .
Apple Releases 10.6.5 Update, Contains Bug Fixes, Reliability and Performance Boosts
Apple Releases 10.6.5 Update, Contains Bug Fixes, Reliability and Performance BoostsApple Releases 10.6.5 Update, Contains Bug Fixes, Reliability and Performance BoostsApple is still pushing out Snow Leopard updates out the door, this time with quite a few bug fixes in specific programs and hardware connections
Headlines: Java-based Trojan horse hits Mac OS X
Java-based Trojan horse targets computers running Apple's Mac OS X