Category: Apple

Download of the day: Google Desktop for Mac OS X

This is one of the must have app for my Mac Mini :D

Google Desktop is a desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your Mac and from the web. Desktop makes searching your own email, files, music, photos, and more as easy as searching the web with Google.

Features

  • Fast and easy search for your Mac computer like Google.com for the web :D
  • Search your gmail and web history
  • Google Desktop automatically indexes and allows you to search the full text of all files stored on computer
  • You can launch applications and files with just a few keystrokes

Google Desktop for Mac OS X

Download URL

=> Google Desktop for Mac OS X

Free Fast Public DNS Servers List

The most basic task of DNS is to translate hostnames such as theos.in to IP address such as 74.86.49.131. In very simple terms, it can be compared to a phone book. DNS also has other important use such as email routing.

This is my list of better, fast public dns servers and free dns server (as compare to your ISP / DSL / ADSL / cable DNS service providers dns servers). These dns servers are free to all. I was able to improve my browsing speed with following DNS servers. Use any one of the following provider.

The most basic task of DNS is to translate hostnames such as theos.in to IP address such as 74.86.49.131. In very simple terms, it can be compared to a phone book. DNS also has other important use such as email routing.

This is my list of better, fast public dns servers and free dns server (as compare to your ISP / DSL / ADSL / cable DNS service providers dns servers). These dns servers are free to all. I was able to improve my browsing speed with following DNS servers. Use any one of the following provider.
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Howto optimize Mac Computer for Performance

The effective mac user blog has posted 11 ways to optimize Mac’s performance.

For example it suggests use of utilities such as OnyX which can repair and optimize Mac computer system.

From the article:

Every now and then, my Macs begin to feel a little sluggish. There are many potential reasons why: I tend to run 8-10 applications all the time – and sometimes push 15 or more. This alone will bog down any Mac.

At other times, I realize that it’s been weeks since I restarted the computer, and a simple restart will solve a lot of these woes.

When those don’t speed things up, I’ve found a number of things I can do to encourage my Macs back to their youthful snappiness.

11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance

Understanding Apple’s iTunes Store DRM – Digital Rights Management

DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a technology (or several technologies) to give content providers control over redistribution and access to material.

Apple’s iTunes Store, as well as many e-books vendors, have adopted DRM schemes in recent times.

This article provides some details about Apple DRM:

Understanding how Apple’s FairPlay DRM works helps to answer a lot of questions: why it hasn’t been replaced with an open, interoperable DRM that anyone can use, why Apple isn’t broadly licensing FairPlay, and why the company hasn’t jumped to add DRM-free content from indie artists to iTunes.

Read more: How FairPlay Works: Apple’s iTunes DRM Dilemma

Mac OS X remap or rename keyboard keys

So how do you remap or rename keyboard keys under Mac OS X?

Simply use DoubleCommand software.

It is a free program

DoubleCommand is software for Mac OS X (a kernel extension) that lets you remap keys, in other words change the way your keyboard works. Often used to make a PC keyboard more comfortable with a Mac, swapping the Alt (Option) and Windows (Command or Apple) keys, since they are in swapped positions on Mac and PC keyboards. DoubleCommand is a quick and easy way to fix this if you use a PC keyboard with your Mac.
Mac OS X remap or rename keyboard keys
Download DoubleCommand

Security: Hack Mac OS X With Installer Packages

MacGeekery has a short but insightful piece with examples on how to use a malformed Installer package (.pkg) on Mac OS X to ‘insert user accounts with administrator rights and change root-owned system configuration or binary files without prompting the vast majority of Mac OS X users for a password of any kind.

From the article: By creating a malicious package and setting the authorization level to AdminAuthorization in the package, an attacker can modify root-owned files, execute commands as root, or install setuid-root programs without alerting the user that such actions are taking place. The problem is compounded when you consider that over 90% of Mac OSi X users run as the administrator user because it’s what the default user created by the system is.

(via Slashdot)

How to install Windows Vista RC1 on a MacBook Pro

I found some good stuff/tutorials that explains how to install Windows Vista RC1 on a MacBook Pro.

From the article, “There’s been a lot of buzz about the Pre-RC1 build of Vista working with Boot Camp. I decided to give it a try, and it was pretty easy. You’ll want to perform a full backup before you try this!!!
First, run the BootCamp Assistant and delete your Windows installation. This will wipe out all your data, but will restore your Mac to a single partition. You only need to do this if you want to perform the next step.

I’m pretty sure Vista won’t run on a FAT32 file system, so you need some way to exchange files between Mac OS X and Windows. I think the best way to do this is to create a third partition. This post (read it all) has lots of details on this. On my MacBook with a 100GB drive, I used this command to shrink my Mac partition and create a 5GB partition for shared data and a 20GB partition for Vista…”

Read complete information at oreillynet…

Coming soon new Apple Leopard OS

Apple is planning to release a new OS called Apple Leopard OS. Apple claims that its upcoming operating system is faster and slick.

Currently Microsoft is struggling with Vista schedule and competition from both OS X and Linux desktop.

According to Mercury news, The Redmond, Wash., software giant was working on its long-awaited next-generation Windows operating system, Vista, known then as “Longhorn.” During Apple’s annual developer’s conference in San Francisco, when its Tiger operating system was unveiled, the company jabbed at its mighty competitor with posters that read: “Redmond, start your photocopiers,” Introducing Longhorn and `Redmond, we have a problem.’

See also: Slashdot discussion