A few weeks ago, I had the enjoyable experience of dropping in on the Mac OS X O’Reilly Conference. The conference was held in Santa Clara, California at the Westin Hotel. (Santa Clara is right next door to San Jose, and Cupertino.) The...
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Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus is presenting a unique session for the first time at Macworld Expo and Conference 2003 in San Francisco. Entitled, "Dr. Mac Presents the 2002 OS X Shareware, Freeware, and Otherware Awards," he’ll...
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Before 1995, there were few choices for VPN’s. If you wanted to access your corporate networks or home network remotely you had to dial in (remember, using that modem thingy) or you were somebody important and had a private line into the...
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The new year is on us- time for resolutions! I was gratified by the response I received on my grandiose editorial of 7-7-02, "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What Your Mac Can Do For Your Country." Now, inspired by an...
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Macrimination is bad when practiced by those on the outside, but it can be even worse when it’s an inside job. I know discourse and debate are centerpieces of open and democratic societies — that’s why I write this column....
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I have a technique that allows me to recover from almost any problem with OS X or a particular program in 15 minutes or less. I’ve fine-tuned this method over a year and a half of OS X beta testing and while it’s not for everyone,...
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As users of one of the most secure operating systems there is, OS X, many of us don’t often think of things like encryption, trojan horses, hackers or the such.
A friend on one of the e-mail lists I belong got a rude awakening this week...
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This is the second in a 3-part overview of Apple’s new operating system, with the final part to be published tomorrow. In this part, he looks at the applications that come with Leopard as well as a couple of the developer tools.
The Applications:...
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This is the final in a 3-part overview of Apple’s new operating system. In this last part, he looks at some of the other applications that Apple encourage us to use with (or are designed for) Leopard, as well as some other applications...
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This is the first in a 3-part overview of Apple’s new operating system, with the other parts to be published over the next two days. In this first part, he looks at the installation process, the desktop and Finder, as well as some of the...
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