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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
With the launch of MobileMe set for early July, Apple is wasting no time in transitioning .Mac users to me.com email addresses. The shift has started, with some .Mac users reporting their new addresses are already active.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
One of the justifications for a massive expansion in the number of top-level domains is that "the stock of available web addresses under the current protocol [is] set to run out by 2011". I ask: whose fault is that?
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
The introduction of Office 2007 brought a wave of document compatibility issues for users of Office 2004, but Microsoft has at last delivered a non-beta version of its Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. And while ODF support has been promised for Office 2007 SP2, there's no sign of it for Office 2008.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
It's been a while coming - and some are sure to say it wasn't worth the wait - but Australians can at last buy episodes of TV shows from the iTunes Store.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
Windows XP is on its way out, though Dell will still provide it at a price. But be quick - your options are rapidly disappearing.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X poses a drive-by download threat to users, according to a senior manager at security vendor Symantec. Two new Trojans that could compromise the security of Mac OS X were reported yesterday and more information on one of them has come to light.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
Mac users beware: a dastardly duo of Trojans is seeking to suck secrets from your computers, and both have been spotted in the wild. With a little help from an incautious user both Trojans are capable of getting around the Mac's defences and executing code with administrator or root privileges.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
The new features introduced by Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard generally went down well with the Mac users I know, but a significant minority were irritated when they discovered Apple had hobbled its ability to work with mobile phones. Fortunately a European developer has come to the rescue!
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
Adobe's very proud of its new AIR-based Media Player, and of the fact that it has garnered 15,000 pieces of content including 400 shows from major broadcasters and publishers in just over two months. That's fine if you're in the US, but what about the rest of the world?
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
IBM has obliterated the competition in the supercomputing stakes with
the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, but Microsoft
has surprisingly scraped in at number 23 with its Windows HPC Server
system. While Microsoft is an unlucky 13 numbers away from the top 10,
does the wow start now?
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
I'm not big on bling, but ThermalTake's M9 case caught my eye.
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