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Stolen MacBook Owner Logs On, Takes a Photo, Busts Thieves

Monday - May 12, 2008

When Apple created the Back to My Mac feature on its .Mac service, it probably never envisioned it as a crime-solving tool. Yet that's just what it became last week, when the service helped the owner of a stolen MacBook recover her lost computer. Kait Duplaga, a young Apple store employee from White Plains, N.Y., lost her MacBook to thieves in late April, when her apartment was robbed. Police were unable to find the thieves until Duplaga managed to access her stolen computer remotely using the Back to My Mac feature, photograph a man using it, and turn the photos over to police. [More...]

A Tale of Two Steves

Monday - May 5, 2008

I'm writing this from the Microsoft Management Summit at Interop with 5,000 of my closest friends in Las Vegas, and I'm still thinking about the book I brought up recently, titled Inside Steve's Brain. The result is, I think I've had an epiphany -- and no, I didn't call a doctor. [More...]

MozyHome Opens the Door for Online Mac Backups

Thursday - May 1, 2008

While Apple's Time Machine and Time Capsule present a made-for-Mac backup solution designed and built by the company itself, it lacks one critical feature -- offsite backups. If a home is robbed, flooded or, worse yet, burned, some of a computer's most precious data can be lost with it. While the family budget is important enough, the real gold is family photos and movies that can never be recreated. [More...]

MS Messenger for Mac 7 Says Bonjour

Wednesday - April 30, 2008

The Microsoft Mac Business Unit announced on Tuesday that it has released Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7 for both personal and corporate use. The corporate version includes multi-party audio and video use. The personal edition features new support for Mac OS X Bonjour instant networking technology, a new contact list search tool and the ability to give contacts a nickname for easy recognition, even when their screen name changes. [More...]

Safari vs. .Gov

Monday - April 28, 2008

There's a scenario that most every Apple aficionado has run into: A Web site that, when visited via Apple's Safari Web browser, just doesn't work. If it's just a handy site, failure is irritating. When it's an important site, perhaps even a critical federally managed site, a Safari failure can incite real anger. [More...]

Built-In Leopard Controls Offer Some Protection for Kids

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

The Internet is a mirror of society -- both the good and bad. Children taking their first steps on the World Wide Web need protection from its ugliest side -- elements like violence, racism, and con games. Yet before you head to the store looking for software to help them in this quest, you should check out the computer's own integrated controls first. [More...]

Leaving Eudora for Apple Mail: A Difficult Switch to Make

Tuesday - April 15, 2008

Tonya Engst at Tidbits.com decided it was finally time to make the switch from Eudora to Apple Mail. She told the story of what happened and what she learned along the way on Sunday. "After months of hemming and hawing, I recently took the plunge and switched from Eudora to Apple Mail," Engst wrote. [More...]

Office 2008 Gets a Face-Lift With Mac-Like Feel and Features

Thursday - April 10, 2008

As you probably know, Microsoft released an upgraded, updated version of its venerable Office suite last January. I've been hard at work on a book about it, so for the past few months I've had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of quality time with it. Dubbed "Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac," it's still available in three versions, like its predecessor. [More...]

Taming Firefox on a Mac

Wednesday - April 9, 2008

Question: I was so impressed with all of the talk of Firefox that I downloaded it to my Mac PowerBook and deleted Safari. Dumb me. Now I cannot get Safari back from Apple. Anyway, Firefox runs fine except that I cannot get images to download on some sites such as Amazon unless I go to each little icon where there should be an image and right-click. [More...]

Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac Brings Pro Power to Everyday Users

Tuesday - April 1, 2008

It took a couple of years -- as well as a few months of jealousy -- but the wait for the next version of Adobe Photoshop Elements for the Mac is over: Adobe is now shipping version 6 for the Mac. The last version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac was version 4, which means Adobe completely skipped over the Mac community when it came out with version 5. [More...]

Mozilla Chief: Safari Push Borders on Malware Tactics

Monday - March 24, 2008

Even though Apple just upgraded its Safari Web browser to version 3.1 and made it wicked fast -- the company calls it 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 -- Apple is getting blasted as being just plain wicked. Last week, Mozilla CEO John Lilly slammed the company for violating the trust of its iTunes customers by slipping Safari into an Apple Software Update application. [More...]

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