Apple OS X 10.5 (Leopard) : A Review

by Edward Mendelson
After three intense days with Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5, I have three main things to say about it.
First: despite minor problems, it’s by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value—like truly automated backups, [...]

PDF files used to attack computers

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The Way It Woz: Steve Wozniak on All Things Apple

by Joanna Stern
10/26/2007
 

It’s been more than three decades since Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs formed Apple Computer, where “the Woz” brought the Apple I and II to life, and where he played a critical role in bringing the original Macintosh to market. He’s considered one of the most influential people in [...]

Linux Visa

Well, I thought I’d start off my return to posting with something that I just thought was super cool: The Linux Fund Credit Card! Everybody seems to have some special credit card now-a-days aimed at getting you some nice rewards… but so far, nothing has truly been geek-oriented. Well, now there is a card for [...]

Dubya’s Clippy?

Passwords Saved In Firefox Are Viewable To Anyone With Access To Your Computer

Most people take advantage of Firefox’s ability to store your passwords for the websites you visit. Did they realize that those passwords are easily accessible to anyone with access to your computer? Anyone who can spend two minutes on your computer (or laptop) can indeed view and even print your entire set of saved account [...]

10 Reasons why you should not rely on Windows Defender

Windows Defender is a free antispyware software (it comes with Windows XP and Vista) that is supposed to protect your pc against spyware. But why do so many people choose other third party software? Today it’s time to reveal 10 reasons that make Microsoft’s program not good enough to deliver effective protection.

Windows Defender allows too [...]

Cannot change desktop wallpaper

You are unable to set your desktop wallpaper to a picture. You can access the Desktop settings in Display Properties, but the Background list is disabled. If you right-click a picture and select Set as Desktop Background, nothing happens.
This problem often occurs after a virus or spyware maliciously changes Windows security settings.
Need the solution. Ask [...]

Hackers Install Leopard on Intel PCs

Warning: Using Leopard this way is a violation of Apple’s license agreement, which states: “This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.”
Apple (AAPL) just released OS X 10.5 Leopard, but a team of programmers has already figured out how [...]

Upgrading to Leopard

So you have erased your harddrive and installed Leopard on your Mac? Some must haves (?) softwares suggested on LifeHacker

Adium (download) (more info) Multi-protocol chat client when even iChat’s improvements aren’t enough
Caffeine (download) (more info)
One-click sleep from the menubar, good for presentations and media servers
DiskInventoryX (download) (more info)
See what files are taking up the most [...]