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Apple OS X Lion bug that exposes passwords

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A security blunder in the most recent version of Mac OS X – 10.7.3 – apparently turns on a system-wide debut log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has logged in since the update was applied. According to Sophos’ Naked Security blog it appears that a debug option was accidentally left enabled in [...]

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Converting Books for the Kindle in Mac & Apple

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Amazon doesn’t go out of there way to make it clear how to use non-Amazon sources (we wouldn’t expect any less really, they have a business model to support and encourage). It’s really easy with the use of a free and open-source application called Calibre. Calibre can easily convert many, many, document formats into Kindle [...]

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One of the new fea­tures of Mac OS X Lion is Lion Recov­ery

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Which includes all the tools you need to rein­stall, restore or repair your Lion instal­la­tion on your Mac. Check this page: Apple’s sup­port page for Lion Recovery One item of note is how to rein­stall your iLife appli­ca­tions after a restore of Lion. You can just down­load them from the Mac App Store if Lion [...]

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Untethered Jailbreak official iOS4.3.1 available for iPhone and iPad

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Finally available the famous Jailbreak iOS4.3.1 expected by all, the Dev-team is not ruling the Jailbreak appeared a little less than 4 hours, at the moment is a safe Untethered Jailbreak, and everything working smoothly, the only warning follow is. If you’re using legal Iphone 4 operator can use the device without problems and use [...]

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Fixed bugs in iTunes on the MacBook Air with Snow Leopard 10.6.7

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Users, friends, the MacBook Air 13 “(late 2010) were reporting problems with iTunes, which completely froze the computer. Because of this, Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13 “MacBook Air (Late 2010). It is a small software update less than 500kb, which specifically corrects the error that had the MacBook Air [...]

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MKVtools, free video converter for Mac OS X

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The need for an application for converting video files is increasing due to the possibilities and convenience that devices like iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad offer. MKVtools is a free utility to convert a variety of popular formats like mkv or other like avi, mp4, ogm, … Operation, as in most of these applications is [...]

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Never throw a Mac

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Apple computers are multipurpose.

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How to Clear DNS Cache in Mac

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DNS request are usually cache, that’s good as it speeds up the lookups within the same host but sometimes we will want to clear the cache so it don’t hold the values that are no longer valid. To do that in Mac (OS Tiger and below) we used the following command: lookupd -flushcache However a [...]

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New version of Safari with Extensions Gallery

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After updating its computers yesterday, Apple took the next logical step today releasing the new Safari 5.0.1 with a great new twist. Apple has also formally launched the Safari extensions Gallery, a directory of extensions and browser ad-ons now available from Amazon, eBay, Bing, MLB.com, the New York Times, and Twitter. Apple introduced extension support in Safari 5 [...]

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iPad Steering Wheel Mount Product Demonstration

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File this under bad ideas. “I think this is a great enhancement to safety so that you don’t have to text with something down in your console”

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About Net Neutrality

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I never thought I would need to write about this, because I kind of assumed that in general, people know what net neutrality means. Of course, if everybody knew everything, then I wouldn’t be teaching in a university now, would I? (I’m still shocked when I watch my students write down everything I say. “Wow,” [...]

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How to Uninstall Apps in OS X?

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Most of the time, you can simply drag the App to the trash. That’s it. The secret is the app you just trashed is not one file but actually a special kind of folder[1] with a collection of files inside. This collection of files make up an application. Almost all apps keep track of your [...]

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The Open Source

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The traditional business model for companies is to create a product and/or provide a service to customers in order to receive payment and hopefully exceed operational costs to generate a profit. However, what happens when you are not creating a product or service, but instead ideas? How do you make a profit? How can you [...]

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Apple : 1 billon of apps served

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Apple(R) today announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest, Connor will [...]

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