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Macs are joining the "Borg" collective zombie botnet.

Macs have achieve sufficient market-share that they are beginning to be hacked and pulled into the botnet "collective". So, even if Mac OS X security is generally better than that of other OSes all of us Mac users should be as cautious about downloaded software as we advise the PC users to be.

"The results are pretty staggering. The same usage model under both OSes results in a significant advantage for OS X. I basically got twice the battery life under OS X as I did under Vista," Lal Shimpi reports.

Tipard iPhone to Mac Transfer is the smart tool to transfer iPhone to Mac local disk. With this iPhone to Mac Transfer, you can backup songs and video from iPhone/iPod to Mac soon directly without any loss.

This article is packed with great tips that you won't find in other introductory tutorials. Therefore it is a bit heavy to read, and worth dipping into even if you have used Macs for a year or two.

Mac OS adoption rates by version. January 2013 update.

Seamlessly run Windows applications alongside Mac applications with the Unity features in VMware Fusion. Find and launch Windows applications quickly with the VMware Fusion launcher. Switch between Windows and Mac applications quickly with Exposé. Minimize Windows applications to the Mac OS X Dock.

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You can send messages to your iPhone, iPad and Mac users with iCloud and find my iPhone feature. To send a message, you need iCloud enabled and must have iOS 5+ on the iPhone or iPad, and for Mac you need OS X 10.7.2+, and make sure all hardware must be sharing the same iCloud ID. Here is the procedure...

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) 3 is the latest release of Apple's desktop management software, enabling administrators to distribute software, manage assets, and remotely administer Mac OS X systems via a network. ARD 3 takes advantage of innovative technologies in Mac OS X Tiger such as Automator. Automator is built on the concept of actions - discrete tasks such as opening a file, cropping an image, or sending a message. With Automator users can string together a series of actions into a single Automator workflow document. Much like a script, a workflow document can be executed, triggering each action and passing any data generated by the action to the next action in the workflow. Using the Automator actions installed with ARD and custom actions you create, you can develop workflows to automate repetitive system administration tasks. For example, workflows can distribute software, create detailed software and hardware reports, and remotely configure systems using ARD.

Mac OS X 10.5 requires you to enter an administrator's password to pause/resume a print queue, where no previous version of OS X has done so. This is extremely annoying in a lab setting -- if there's a paper jam or something, the queues on all the computers need to be restarted by an administrator, instead of the user just clicking Resume. I haven't seen a solution to this elsewhere, so here's what I came up with:

Tipard iPhone Transfer Pro for Mac is the professional iPhone Transfer for Mac to backup songs or videos from iPhone/iPod to Mac local disk to store files in case the crashes.

Folx (currently in beta stage) is a free downloader for Mac OS X. It helps you download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. Folx supports auto-resuming and guarantees maximum speed possible thanks to our multi-thread download tasks. With Folx you will be able to download not only separate files, but the whole folders with all the contents via FTP.

A list of the must have menu bar applications for Mac OS X. List some of the best apps and programs for Leopard, Tiger and the Mac.

Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA) is a free and elegant widget framework that uses XHTML for structure, CSS for styling and JavaScript/Ajax for behavioral/DOM control ; it can also use iframes and plugins such as Flash. UWA supports all major widget platforms, including Netvibes, iGoogle, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, iPhone and more. Credit to Rik` in irc://irc.freenode.net/#webkit for the referral/suggestion.

>> get rid of those pesky softwareupdates ~ sr/sbin/softwareupdate is a command line utility to perform software updates under Mac OS X.

Learn about common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. A keyboard shortcut is a way to invoke a function in Mac OS X by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps". If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question. For a quick start please read the readme file on the disk image.

Apple Inc.'s operating system market share slipped last month as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows halted its slide for only the fourth time in the past 12 months, a research company reported. In July, Apple's Mac OS X powered 7.76% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company said Friday. The Mac's share of the OS market was down 0.18 percentage points from June's 7.94% and was lower than May's 7.83%. Windows, meanwhile, posted a small gain in overall share, climbing 0.13 percentage points from June's 90.89% to end July with 91.02%

MoSo stands for movie for social communication and it is an easy-to-use movie creator/editor Mac App developed by Shinji Murakoshi from Japan.

Origin: preferred alternatives to Apple Support Communities for providing support to users and developers of Apple products and services https://discussions.apple.com/message/15761803#15761803