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- MobileMe is On the Way.
- Apple Market Share Keeps Chugging Along
- .Mac Bookmarks Getting Tweaked Soon
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- Play Poker - Catch a Virus
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Have you stopped by the .mac system status page lately? If so, then this little message was there to meet you:
This is a great piece of news for Apple Users. MobileMe, despite the dum(ish) name, is one of the greatest improvements to Apple users ever. This new service takes an old beaten down .mac and turns it into something worth the money, that even Windows users will be envious of. Now, will it turn out the way I hope? We shall see in two days.
What if I told you that you were going to make one-third more money than you do now in one year? Would that be OK with you? I know a 33% raise would sure make my day. Well, that’s the spot that Apple finds themselves in. The Apple marketshare has grown by 33% in one year. They have gone from 6.4% to nearly 8%. According to an Ars Technica report, the majority of those gains are thanks to Intel based Macs. I know that is the case for me, all three of my Macs are Intel machines. If this trend continues, Apple is poised to take over the world in just a few years. Now, keep in mind that these studies are based on web-metrics, and they are not an exact science. None the less, this is good news for us Apple lovers.
The image says it all. If you use .Mac to sync and control your bookmarks, then you have been warned that July 6th is a big day for you. Presumably, there is some major MobileMe patching going on around the 6th , and the first causalty of the change will be the existing .mac bookmark syncing application. Now, don’t be freaked out, MobileMe will do the same thing, but there is juat a better MobileMe way of doing it. None the less, Apple has been kind enough to warn us, so take action soon!
If you are running a MacBook Pro, and you wish that the speedy little machine was even faster, then head over to ZDnet and download ZDnet Clock. This handy little piece of software will allow you to speed up your XServe Server or your MacBook Pro. According to ZDnet, the latest generation Mac Pro (3.1) with a 2.8GHz processor can be overclocked to 3.24GHz without mucking with the voltage or losing stability. Now, they are billing it as a developer / debugger tool, so use with caution, and your milage may vary. Personally, I run a MacMini, an iPhone, and a pair of MacBooks, so the software is Greek to me, but feel free to give it a try and let me know how well it did. If it works, I would love to hear about it, if you MacBook melts, I warned you.
As I sit here typing this, I am running the latest and greatest that OS X Leopard has to offer; I am on 10.5.4. Yep, that’s right, if you run software update right now, you could join me on the newest secure version of Leopard.Here are a few of the updates:
There is also a security update for those of you running earlier versions of OS X (non-leopard types). Head on over to kill those nasty trojans that are skulking about.
According to many sites out there in the intertubes, iPhone firmware 2.0 will enable your iPod Touch or iPhone to work as a remote (over you network). Presumably, you will be able to stop, start, change tracks, etc. This is a great new feature on the horizon. In actuallity, the possibilities are endless. Will iTunes be able to serve video a la slingbox? What about remote downloading from your iTunes library. I can think of a million things I would like to do with this level of functionality. There are only two weeks left until the iPhone 2.0 firmware, the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware, the iPhone 3g, MobileMe, and the rest of the new toys hit. It is a good time to be a Apple Lover!
Are you familiar with Parallels Desktop? It is the virtualization software that allows you to use different OS’s on your Mac. Lots of people use it and lots of people paid the $79 bucks it usually cost. Well, if you are interested in Parallels but haven’t jumped yet, now is the time. MacHeist, the discount Apple software bundlers, are offering Parallels Desktop + Mac Pilot for only $49. That discount is HUGE. Incidentally, Mac Pilot is a great piece of software that lets you get into the deepest cracks of the Mac OS without having to worry about the Terminal.app or other debugging tools. Mac Pilot usually runs $19.95. Overall, your discount is about $50. Hurry, MacHeist bundles don’t last forever, but if you manage to be one of the first 1000 people to order, you get a bonus free application. Go here for the MacHeist bundle.
When I heard about Snow Leopard at WWDC, I was underwhelmed. To me, it seemed like the lack of new features and the promise of stability was something that should be provided by a 10.5.X rather than a 10.6 have to pay update. After reading the AppleInsider piece, I am thinking about things differently. Specifically, I am looking towards the promise of slimmer applications. I currently use xslimmer to get my applications down in size in order to free up room on my MacBook and MacMini. Sometimes, as was the case with the recent Microsoft Office Update, xslimmer changed things a bit too much. I had to reinstall office. Hard drive space is a premium in my MacMini, and in my MacBook as well. A sleeker, faster, and thinner OS will add months, if not years, to my hardware. Spending about $100 bucks on an OS will be much better than spending thousands on new hardware.
I know, this is a Apple blog. I know, Microsoft is a dirty word to many Apple fans, but for many, including myself, I need to use Microsoft Office to be compatible with the other half of the world. So, that being said, as I sit here typing this, my Microsoft auto-updater is running giving me a “critical update” to Microsoft Office. This update brings me to release 12.1.1 of Microsoft Office 2008. The update fixes a number of issues. There are too many to list here, so visit the Microsoft Knowledge Base for all the sordid details. Also, if you happen to be running Office 2004, there was an update there as well. You should run your software and give the “check for update” option a try.
The first one, posing as a poker game, asks you for your admin password and then uploads the password and your machines information to a central server so that it can have access to your machine. The second one attacks a vulnerability in OS X’s Remote Management agent. Both have been spotted int he wild and have a risk rating of high. Now, the bad news is that these two viruses are out and about and are dangerous. The good news is that these two viruses are the TWO (not millions) that my Mac is at risk for right now. The bottom line is Macs are still safer than their Windows brethren. So, what is the lesson here? Only run software you trust (from trusted companies), never play online poker, and don’t run Windows. |
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