I’m posting a link to a piece in MacWorld thats very relevant these days about “scary looking websites”, especially as a followup to another recent blog post I put up about Scam-Ware and Scare-Ware “A reader says, ‘I used Yahoo to search for something and was sent immediately to the following [redacted] site. I believe …
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Mac Owners, “No, you’re not infected”
August 17th, 2009 | Posted by in Mac | News - (Comments Off on Mac Owners, “No, you’re not infected”)It always is a bit surprising to me how many of my clients still use AOL for their email after all this time (and for example, have not switched to Gmail…. a far, far superior email service in every way) This seems to be a common holdover from the time, many years ago now, when AOL …
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I just installed and am testing out the WDC pre-release version of Snow Leopard. The Finder as advertised does feel much much snappier, as Apple says… “It’s more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder.” Thats the 64-bit ‘oomph’ no doubt. Startup and Shutdown also happen much quicker! I’ll post a …
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Scam: Online Anti-virus Scan REDUX
July 4th, 2009 | Posted by in News - (Comments Off on Scam: Online Anti-virus Scan REDUX)Client contacted me yesterday VERY concerned her Mac seemed to have software downloaded onto it indicating her computer was infected with multiple viruses. Bunch of bull, fortunately. 1) She was on a Mac, and the “scan” was about her “infected PC”. A very similar scenario is exactly detailed by this site here, “Scam: An Online …
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Time Capsule ‘Hang’ Restore Problem & Backup Issues
July 1st, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac | Maintenance | News - (1 Comments)I recently had a kind of bad experience with having to do a Restore from a Time Capsule. It was very frustrating, so I thought I’d post about this problem. Following Apple’s instructions exactly, I booted up from a Leopard Installer Disk, chose the “Restore from Time Machine backup” Utility…etc, and so far so good. It …
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What is Time Machine?
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac - (Comments Off on What is Time Machine?)If you have Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.x) on your Mac guess what, you have Time Machine (its built in!) So whats Time Machine anyway? Well its the name of Apple’s automatic Backup software that just works! For most of my clients, its what I recommend. I found this very good, detailed step-by-step description on …
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Just read about this web-based image editing program called Paint mentioned in this MacWorld article. http://www.macworld.com/article/134962/2009/06/sumopaint.html Its like Photoshop in function. One huge difference? Adobe’s Photoshop costs hundreds of dollars. Sumo Paint is FREE! It does many of the same things. Here is a demo of Sumo Paint in action up on YouTube. Certainly worth …
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Just downloading now…. Found this good link “to read as your downloading that big update” http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/17/iphone-os-3-0-walkthrough/ And this…pretty funny http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8475
iPhone 3.0 software is supposed to be released today by Apple; Again, its supposed to have many improvements, one huge one being “cut and paste” (!) Will post on the update once its available and I can download and check it out, up close and personal http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/ Related posts: Hints & Tips – A really …
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