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Peripheral

Kyocera KPC 650, Sierra AirCard 580 now Talking EVDO with PowerBook

EVDOinfo.com shows you how to use Kyocera KPC 650, Sierra AirCard 580 on your PowerBook for EVDO. Simple installers now available to allow these newer EVDO cards to work in your PowerBook. Read More…

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Software

Apple Brings Rich Text Editing to Safari in Panther

Although Rich Text editing was expected to come in the next version of Safari (in Tiger), Apple has included it in the latest update available for Panther (it’s in the 10.3.9 update). Rich Text editing allows you to make things bold, italic, change colors, sizes and even drag and drop images – right in your […]

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Software

Apple Slapped for Sloppy Security Response

VNUNet.com is reporting on Apple’s security patch for a vulnerability in its iSync application: The patch released on Tuesday is identified as Security Update 2005-004. It followed one month after update 2005-003. The flaw makes iSync’s mRouter tool vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. Users with local access to affected systems could then gain super-user […]

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Opinion

L.A. Times: Apple "Chilly and Arrogant as an oil Company"

The L.A. Times has a story this morning on Apple’s attempts at an end-around the constitution in issuing a subpoena to my former ISP in an attempt to read my email. For all its skill at designing products that strike an emotional chord with consumers, Apple Computer Inc. sometimes projects a corporate personality as chilly […]

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Archive

Getting the Best Possible Performance out of AltiVec

Apple clearly has a substantial interest in making sure that programmers targeting the Mac are getting the best possible performance out of AltiVec processors. The AltiVec unit is not really just a single processing component: it’s a number of different components, and in principle, all of them can be running at once. This article gives […]