Friday Favorite: PollEverywhere Mac Presenter grows up
When your job (or schoolwork) involves giving presentations to rooms full of more-or-less interested parties, you know how hard it can be to maintain a constructive level of audience attention. The economical cloud audience response system (ARS) p...
Disk Art visualizes hard drive space usage
When an email from the Clean Cut Code, the makers of Disk Art, showed up in our inbox yesterday, I jumped at the chance to take a peek. I'm a huge fan of Grand Perspective's space visualization software and am always happy to try out another app to ...
Five Major Lessons IT Needs To Learn From The Flashback Fiasco
With the number of Flashback-infected Macs dwindling more each day and Apple’s release of software updates that can both clean an infected Mac and prevent infection or reinfection, it’s easy for IT...#MacStoriesDeals – Friday
Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on hardware, iOS, and Mac apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end! Hardware & Amazon Deals New! Refurbished Apple MacBook Air Dual 1.4GHz 12″ Laptop: $799 + free shipping Refurb Apple MacBook Air Laptops: 12″ 64GB SSD: $849 + free shipping _________________________________________ Mac Software New! Mac...
The three-year itch: Why Apple needs to do more to keep older systems secure
Apple recently introduced software updates and a removal tool for the “Flashback” threat on Macs. Users of Apple's current desktop OS, Lion 10.7.3, and the previous Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Apple’s got you covered. For anything older, Apple’s recommendation is disabling Java. That’s wrong, and here’s why.
How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter?
Estimates range from 4.3 to 4.85 million. The best analysts' consensus: 4.64 million
FORTUNE -- Compared with Apple's (AAPL) iOS devices -- the iPhone and the iPad -- the Mac is a turtle. Slow and steady has characterized its growth rate since the launch of the iPhone -- an average of 26% year over year for...
Kaspersky Lab: Macs not invulnerable to malware
The writing is on the wall. Our time of innocence is gone. Researchers from Kaspersky Labs claim Mac market share has finally reached the critical point, and the platform is now an attractive target for online criminals.
Kaspersky told Ars Techn...
The Humble Botanicula Debut
Spring is here, and what a better way to get you in the mood than a new game called Botanicula. Botanicula is a point’n'click exploration game created by the makers of award-winning Machinarium, development studio Amanita Design and Czech band DVA. Five friends, little tree creatures, set out on a journey to save the last seed from their...
#MacStoriesDeals – Thursday
Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on hardware, iOS, and Mac apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end! Hardware & Amazon Deals New! Refurb Apple MacBook Air Laptops: 12″ 64GB SSD: $849 + free shipping Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 Quad 2.2GHz 17″ Laptop: $1,780 + free shipping Refurbished Apple Mac mini...
Kaspersky: 30,000 Mac users left infected with Flashback, more Mac malware on the way
As of yesterday, security company Symantec released a statement claiming there were still 140,000 Macs infected from the recent Flashback malware outbreak that originally infected an estimated 600,000 Mac users. That was despite Apple issuing a Java security update to remove the malware. Today, security researchers from Kaspersky said during a press conference (via Ars...
Xcode 4.4 and Safari 5.2 seeds pushed to developers
In addition to the third developer's preview of OS X Mountain Lion, developers on Wednesday also received new builds of Xcode 4.4 and Safari 5.2. AppleInsider has release notes for both, with Xcode 4.4 having enhancements for Objective-C language fea...
Apple is giving away Snow Leopard to MobileMe customers
In an effort to get the remaining MobileMe customers upgraded to Lion and iCloud, Apple is offering a free upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for those still running OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Macgasm posted pictures of the missive, which directs MobileMe c...
