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Apple has confirmed that the lack of pre-installed Flash on the new MacBook Air models was intentional and that the policy will apparently continue.

If you fancy having a go at writing apps for the Apple iPhone and want to learn how, then you will be required to agree to Apple's non-disclosure agreement while installing the iPhone developer tools.

Do you have an old portable hard drive or flash drive lying around? Why not turn it into the ultimate Macintosh diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool? With TechTool Protogo it's easy. Protogo allows you to quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains Micromat's most powerful tools as well as any of your own utilities you may wish to install. You can then use this device to boot, check, maintain, and repair Macintosh computers as needed. Like our award-winning product, TechTool Protege, you will have a device that allows you to carry all the tools you'll need in your shirt pocket. But unlike Protege, you'll have plenty of space left over for a multitude of additional utilities as well as ample drive space when you need to recover data.

It seems that Apple has listened to user complains with firmware 2.0 and released 2.0.1 firmware. You can go ahead to iTunes and download it there. If you have unlocked iPhone, dont install the new firmware yet since PwnageTool and WinPwn does not work with the new firmware yet.

Most of you should be aware of how you can use MCX to manage preferences for your directory service. Generally these days this is done by either running Open Directory, extending the schema for Active Directory or a standard OpenLDAP installation, or running a "magic triangle" setup where your client machines are bound to both an Open Directory setup and an Active Directory/OpenLDAP setup.

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.

Top 10 iPhone Ready Websites Posted in Uncategorized by Apple Tweaks on the April 3, 2008 Edit This Tags: iphone optimized sites, iphone plugin, wordpress for iphone As the Dot Com age is evolving so is the means of which we receive our information. Here is a nifty list that I found from theappleblog.com. I love this site! Subscribe today! These are the most Optimized sites for the iPhone 1. Facebook - http://iphone.facebook.com/ : this is definitely the best iPhone optimized website that I have seen. I fell in love with it right off the bat. I have been using it for a while. My favorite feature is the text reply to messages. This feature allows you to see who just commented or emailed you and allows you a quick and easy way to reply back to that person. I also like the picture viewer app and it is really easy to browse profiles. Try it out! If you did not know about this iPhone opitimized site then your stoked and Facebook just got better :) 2. Digg- http://www.digg.com/iphone : Digg is a social network site that lets you share information about links to stories, articles, videos, blogs you name it. It is fast and easy! Check it out! 3. Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com : Brandone Eley writes about his accidental discovery of this iPhone optimized site. read more at theappleblog.com. 4. eBay - http://iphone.ebay.com : of course if Amazon has one you should expect ebay to be optimized too. :) 5. Google - http://google.com/Google is optimized nicely. Click on google.com and hit the mobile link. I love this one because I can get all of my rss feeds from my Google reader page. 6. Tada List - http://tadalist.com : Never heard of this site till yesterday! I guess this is good for making to do list on your iPhone. 7. Leafllets - http://www.getleaflets.com/ : Once again never heard of it. But awesome and clean interface. Leaflets lets you check feeds from Newsvine, del.icio.us, yahoo upcoming events, flickr, NY Times and much more. It also points

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new mac users. It includes closing an application window, thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can't eject disk image), Windows .EXE files littered around the desktop after they've tried to download software and install it.

Safari normally use the Web Kit framework found inside Mac OS X to render web pages and execute javascript. This means that if you preserve an old version of Safari to run it on a newer version of Mac OS, it will use the newer Web Kit found in the system and you will get the same results as with the newer version. Thus, you would normally need a separate installation of Mac OS X for each version of Safari you want to test a website into.

Fashion inspired colorful silicon skin case for iPhone 3G which gives the best protection and all buttons are available after install this case.

This issue may prevent installation of Ubuntu and variants to some PowerPCs.

Network Home Redirector... While network-based home directories provide many benefits, they also bring some unwanted headaches. These headaches usually come in the form of Microsoft Office User Data folder issues, as well as AFP performance issues when dealing with thousands, sometimes millions of cache files. If you would like to redirect some of that traffic to the local machine, instead of taxing your network and your AFP servers, NHR might be for you. Download the DMG file and choose the appropriate package installer(s) for your environment. That's it.

RCDefaultApp is a free utility that CreativeTechs has started adding to our recommended Mac OS X installs. It adds a special preference pane that allows you to quickly change the default application for many common situations: * Open all your .pdf files in Acrobat instead of Preview. * Pick a different default mail client or web browser. * Control what opens when digital cameras or webcams are plugged in. * Close security holes with how certain weblinks are handled. Of course you can change these settings other ways. But RCDefaultApp makes it much easier by putting the most requested controls into one location - a new "Default Apps" option at the bottom of your Mac OS X System Preferences.

Apple has removed a widely publicized support document from its website that encouraged Mac OS X users to install antivirus software, explaining that its operating system was designed with safeguards to protect against malicious attacks on its own.

After updating to Mac OS X 10.5.7, a user may not be able to log in to a managed client workstation. On startup, or after entering the user name and password, the user may be prompted for an administrator name and password, but nothing can be entered. This issue can occur on PowerPC-based Macs if the file /etc/authorization is not updated correctly when installing the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update.

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The recent USB Video Class webcam standard is expanding the market for driverless web cameras. Modern operating systems now include built-in support for these plug and play web cams: No driver install required.

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.