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You Can’t Legally Join A Class-Action Lawsuit Against Microsoft, But You Can...
Microsoft plans to use license agreements to prevent class action lawsuits Microsoft is a company known for creating strict, labyrinthine, costly terms in its commercial and end-user licensing. With...
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Apple Serves Up Mac Business/Enterprise Resources Ahead of Mountain Lion
Apple release Lion/enterprise docs on its training site Apple has added several whitepapers to its training site. All them address enterprise technologies in Lion. While many of the whitepapers have...
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Shift-Option Trick For Fine Volume Control Returns To OS X
OCD win! Those of you using OS X 10.7 Lion (which I hope is all of you) may have missed the ability to adjust the system volume in tiny quarter steps. This feature was available in Snow Leopard and...
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Apple’s Latest Thunderbolt Update Is Causing Boot Failures, Kernel Panics & More
If you haven't already done so, don't install this Thunderbolt update on your Mac. A Software Update for Thunderbolt was just one of many Apple releases that went public yesterday, but unlike the rest,...
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Apple Is Now Killing Messages Beta For Existing OS X Lion Users
Say goodbye to Messages. Apple's now killing it for Lion users. Shortlt after Apple announced Mountain Lion would be shipping next month, Cult of Mac reported that Cupertino had already begun...
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Mountain Lion’s New Notes App Contains Hidden Tribute To Famous Apple Ad
Notes isn’t the first app to contain this famous quote. It’s not uncommon for Apple to hide little treats within the icons of its Mac apps, but it’s always nice when we stumble across a new one. The...
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OS X Mountain Lion To Hit Mac App Store On July 19 [Rumor]
It could be less than a month before OS X Mountain Lion hits the Mac App Store. Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month that its next major update to Mac OS X, dubbed...
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iCloud’s OS Integration Illustrates The Future Of Personal Cloud Services
Widespread personal cloud adoption rests on iCloud-like mobile and desktop OS integration Cloud storage accounts for just 7% of our digital content according to Gartner the industry research firm....
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Work Around For Save As… In Lion [OS X Tips]
When Lion debuted, the Save As… function had been removed from the File menu, and an interloper – Duplicate – was put in its place. The problem is that if you use Duplicate, you end up with two...
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Another Way Windows 8 Was Inspired By Apple: Pricing
One thing Apple has done really well over the past few years is eliminating fragmentation in its operating systems. The install base of iOS 5 is over 75%; OS X Lion is around 50%. That’s in less than...
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Mac App Store Won’t Let You Download OS X Mountain Lion If Your Mac Can’t...
You won’t be able to purchase Mountain Lion if your Mac can’t handle it. When Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion to the public later this month, the software will be available exclusively to the Mac App...
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Single-Click Boot Drive Creator Lion DiskMaker Gets OS X Mountain Lion Support
Ensure you’ve always got a copy of Mountain Lion locally. Shortly after OS X Lion made its debut last year, we told you about a terrific utility called Lion DiskMaker, which creates bootable disks and...
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Upgraded To Mountain Lion? There’s No Going Back To Lion Now
The Lion is dead. If you rushed off to the Mac App Store to download OS X Mountain Lion as soon as it was released this morning, then I hope you like it. Because once you’ve handed over your cash,...
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How To Install Mountain Lion On Your Mac The Right Way [Feature]
Apple’s latest jungle cat is called Mountain Lion, and the new version of OS X is available as a $20 purchase in the Mac App Store. If you’ve updated to a new version of OS X before, you know that...
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Cats On The Prowl: The Evolution of Mac OS X From Cheetah To Mountain Lion...
The year is 2012, and the March of the Big Cats continues. Apple is about to release Mountain Lion, the latest iteration of (Mac) OS X, and citizens of the Appleverse are eager to explore what this...
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Apple Seeds New OS X Lion 10.7.5 Developer Beta And iCloud Control Panel For...
Although OS X Mountain Lion has been just recently released, Apple today seeded to registered developers a new build of OS X Lion, version 10.7.5. This new seed has a build number of 11G30. In...
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Apple Begins Offering Mountain Lion Training And Certification Options For IT...
Following the launch of Mountain Lion, Apple has started rolling out Mountain Lion IT certifications. Apple has launched its first Mountain Lion training guide and certification for IT professionals....
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Microsoft Has No Plans To Update Office 2011 For Retina Display Macs
Users say this looks “crap” and “very fuzzy” on the Retina MacBook Pro. Microsoft Office 2011 looks awful on the new MacBook Pro’s Retina display. But unfortunately for its customers, it seems...
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Thunderbolt + Lightning = Fast And Easy Mountain Lion Installs For Business,...
FileWave’s new free app makes deploying Lion/Mountain Lion incredibly easy. FileWave launched a new free app called Lightning this week. The new app makes quick and easy work of deploying Mountain Lion...
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Apple Seeds Latest OS X Lion 10.7.5 Build To Registered Developers
Another OS X Lion 10.7.5 release. Apple has seeded a new OS X Lion 10.7.5 build to registered developers through the Apple Dev Center. It comes with build number 11G36, and weighs in at 1.15GB for the...
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Only One Month After Launch 10% Of All Macs Are Running Mountain Lion
Apple’s latest desktop operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, launched just over a month ago, but its usage is spreading like a raging forest fire. 48 hours after its release the OS was already...
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New IT Guide From Apple Details How FileVault 2 Works
A new Apple white paper helps IT manage FileVault 2. Apple has released a new white paper for CIOs, IT leaders, and IT professionals. This one targets FileVault 2, which was introduced in Lion and...
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Kindle For Mac Update Brings Support For Lion Gestures, Kindle Format 8 Books...
Amazon shows its Mac app some love. After unveiling its latest Kindle lineup last week, Amazon has updated its Kindle app for Mac OS X to introduce support for new books that employ the Kindle 8...
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Classic RPG Game, The Witcher, Gets Lion And Mountain Lion Support In New Update
If you’ve been wanting to play The Witcher, CD Projekt’s well-regarded RPG based on the book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, now might be a great time to do so. The game has just been...
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Make Sure Your Mac Asks If You Want To Save Changes To Your Documents [OS X...
So, Apple likes to change things; this much is a given. The software developers behind the operating system, OS X, are no different. They’re constantly changing the way things work from iteration to...
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Rename Safari 6 Bookmarks Like Renaming Files In The Finder [OS X Tips]
Safari 6 comes bundled with OS X Mountain Lion and is available for download for Mac OS X Lion. It comes with a host of new features, several of which we detailed in this past weekend’s Safari tips...
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Apple’s Messages Beta Program For OS X Lion Ends December 14th
Apple has just sent out the following Email to OS X Lion users, alerting them that the Messages Beta program for OS X Lion will end on December 14th. Messages for Mac, originally launched as a beta...
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OS X 10.9 Called Lynx? Probably Not [Rumor]
What are you looking at? With Mac OS X now in its ninth edition, one of the biggest hurdles Apple must overcome for its OS X 10.9 release is which cool cat it will be named after. We’ve had Cheetah,...
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OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For 32% Of Mac Web Traffic
Apple’s newest version of OS X – 10.8 Mountain Lion – has been the fastest adopted Mac operating system in history and it’s continuing to dominate. A new web traffic survey has concluded that Mountain...
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SimCity Coming To Mac On June 11, Those Who Bought It On PC Get It Free
EA and Maxis have today announced that their latest SimCity game is coming to the Mac on June 11, and pre-purchasing will begin tomorrow, April 11. The title will be available to download through...
View ArticleCustomize Your Login Screen With A Cool New Wallpaper [OS X Tips]
Yeah, that gray linen login screen looked cool when it first appeared in OS X Lion, but honestly? It’s gotten a bit bland. As is typical of Apple, of course, there’s no built in way to change it. We’ve...
View ArticleStop The Restore Windows Feature Three Different Ways [OS X Tips]
While there are many features in OS X Lion that excite me, one that does not is the Resume feature. Clearly, Apple thought that opening windows from the last time an App was open would be a time saving...
View ArticleValletta Is An Ultra-Simple Markdown Editor for OS X
Valletta is yet another Markdown editor for the Mac, but one with a crucial difference. Instead of using a separate window to preview your document, it converts only the current line you’re editing,...
View ArticleCalvin & Hobbes Meet OS X In These Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers [Gallery]
Calvin And Hobbes — Bill Watterson’s beautiful elegy to imagination, impishness and inquisitiveness — is still a comic strip that is unmatched in my affections over fifteen years after the final strip...
View ArticleApple Configurator – Perfect For Schools And Small Business But Too Limited...
Along with announcing the new iPad and Apple TV (and related iOS and app updates), Apple released a new tool for managing iOS devices in business and education. The new Apple Configurator app is a free...
View ArticleA Message To IT Leaders: You’re Not Apple’s Customer But Your Users Are
A common complaint that I heard earlier this week at the CITE conference in San Francisco was that Apple wasn’t a “real” enterprise vendor. IT professionals have whined and moaned about the fact that...
View ArticleQuicken Finally Works With Lion But Is It Too Little, Too Late?
When Lion was released last summer, there was a big outcry because Apple had decided to kill off Rosetta, the emulation engine that allowed Macs with Intel processors to run apps designed for Macs with...
View ArticleApple Downsizes IT Training And Certification – How The Changes May Impact You
Like many technology companies, Apple offers training and certification programs. The company’s certification options have typically been aimed at three different core competencies: hardware...
View ArticleApple Issues Second Java Update In Two Days Following Infection Of 600,000 Macs
Apple has issued a second update to Java in just two days this week as the company works to patch vulnerabilities that have led to the infection of over 600,000 Macs. The Java for OS 2012-002 update is...
View ArticleFlashback Trojan – A Big Wake Up Call For Mac IT Pros
The after effects of the Flashback Trojan are going to be felt for a long time to come. Although there’s been the occasional Mac malware announcement over the past few years, none was ever found to be...
View ArticleThousands of Macs In The Enterprise – How The Big Companies Roll [Feature]
Last week I took a brief look at how managing a handful of Macs differs from managing dozens or hundreds or even thousands of Macs. Some readers asked how big companies like Apple, Google, Viacom, or...
View ArticleApple Releases New Flashback Trojan Removal Tool For Lion Users Without Java
Following two independent Java security updates and one last patch to detect and remove the Flashback trojan, Apple has released another software tool for getting rid of Flashback on a Mac running OS X...
View ArticleThursby Updates Tool For Macs Used By Top Secret Organizations
Thursby last week released ADmitMac PKI 4. The release is a specialized version of the company’s ADMit Mac software that focuses two factor authentication. The solution is largely aimed at government...
View ArticleApple Starts Giving Away Snow Leopard To Get Remaining MobileMe Users Onto...
Apple finally gave the notice that it would be killing off MobileMe once and for all on June 30th, 2012. The soon-to-be-defunct service has already been replaced with iCloud, but Mac users who are...
View ArticleThe Crucial Skills Every Mac IT Pro Needs [Feature]
Recent data shows that nearly half of all companies offer or provide Macs to employees and that the Macs represent about 7% computers in the workplace. That’s according to a Forrester report that was...
View ArticleBoom 1.4 Update Promises To Deliver All The Features You’ve Been Requesting
Boom, a terrific utility for Mac OS X that boosts system volume well above Apple’s default limit, is set to receive a new update that promises to deliver all of the features and improvements that Boom...
View ArticleNew Version Of Safari Tells Older Versions Of Adobe Flash To Take A Hike
Today Apple released Safari 5.1.7 alongside OS X 10.7.4. The latest Safari update includes several general improvements and bug fixes, including a new way of handling Adobe Flash on the web. If an...
View ArticleBring OS X Mountain Lion’s Features To Lion [Video How-To]
Many people I’ve talked to are anxious to try out the new features Apple has brought to OS X Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, Apple has only made the beta of Mountain Lion available to registered...
View ArticleOS X Lion Could Be Killed Off Early As Apple Prepares Staff For Mountain Lion...
Apple could be preparing to kill off OS X Lion early in favor of its predecessor, Mountain Lion, according to the company’s AppleCare training schedule. One source claims that the Cupertino company is...
View ArticleAdobe Got Burned For Ending Legacy Support – Will The Same Thing Happen To...
Last week, Adobe created a firestorm of user unrest when it issued a series of security bulletins impacting three applications of its Creative Suite and said that users must pay to upgrade to the...
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