I know that we’ve mentioned this here before but an easy and free way to protect your PowerBook’s data in the event of it getting lost or stolen is to install a Firmware Password. Every PowerBook user should install one, right now. The Open Firmware Password application allows you to enable security features in Open […]
The EFF’s Bloggers As Journalists: Why We Fight Apple?s Subpoenas is worth a read: James Madison understood that “a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both.” Legal protections for media sources and unpublished information are critical means for journalists […]
Engadget has posted an excellent article HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center where they dissect every aspect of the task from storage, audio, video, video in, recording and playback of HDTV, remote control, installing and connecting with VNC: Yep, everyone?s talking about using the Mac mini as a home media center, and […]
I’m all about cool new Web browsers that are super fast and have features that aren’t available in Safari (the ability to control cookies on a site by site basis comes to mind) but Firefox has got me hopping mad. The alt-browser of choice at PowerPage World Headquarters has been Firefox for a while now, […]
Since we know that the Apple brass likes to read the PowerPage I’d like to pass along a tip that the company has ignored on their support forums and feedback pages for years: enough with the pulsing sleep lights already! Read More…