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Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSA

Securing OS X 10.4: Tips from the Apple and the NSAApple Rocks!whooohooo I'm #1!Password Assistant to the rescueArticle states: "Those best practices include all those password usage tips that IT users forget almost daily."Apple's Password Assistant to the rescue. It's available from System Preferences, when you're changing or creating...

Tags: Apple Inc., password, NSA, LaunchServices

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

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IceClean 3.3.2 (Mac)

IceClean is a powerful Finder and System optimization tool using ONLY built-in Unix system tasks to help your System stay healthy and to keep it running smoothly. IceClean lets you execute the following tasks: System Maintenance Process & Infos Periodic Routine Scripts Verify Preferences .plist files Repair Permissions Update Prebindings...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, MacDentro.com, IceClean, UNIX, Tcp/Ip, Operating Systems, Networking, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Maintenance 1.2.6 (Mac)

Maintenance is a System Maintenance and Cleaning utility. It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance: repair permissions, run periodic scripts, reset Mail's and Spotlight's Index, rebuild the LaunchServices database, delete Application, Font and System cache, check the status of the Hard disk...

Tags: Maintenance, Apple Macintosh, Titanium, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-17

Maintenance 3.8 (Mac)

A simple Automator Action fused with AppleScript aimed at keeping your Mac running healthy. Features include: Repair Permissions Verify Preferences Update Prebindings Periodic Clean-up Clean Cache Update Locate, Whatis, LaunchServices databasesRebuild Spotlight IndexForce Empty Trash

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Jesse Hogue, Desktops, Scripting Languages, Hardware, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-12-16

Mac users waiting months for 'critical' Java runtime update

Mac users waiting months for 'critical' Java runtime updateNot a problem at allWe keep hearing constantly from all sorts of people yourself included that Macs are such a miniscule portion of the computing ecosphere that no one bothers to write malware for them, so who cares if the patch hasn't...

Tags: Programming languages, Java, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

Maintenance 1.1.2 (Mac)

Maintenance is a system maintenance and cleaning utility (repair permissions, run periodic scripts, clean applications, fonts, and system cache, rebuild LaunchServices database, and mail-mailboxes.)

Tags: Maintenance, Apple Macintosh, Titanium Software, Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-03-28

Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS flaw

Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS flawNothing to be afraid of[i]A security researcher has published attack code for an unpatched flaw in Mac OS X[/i]This is merely proof of concept code written by a researcher. There is no way a real "hacker" would ever take this PoC code and do...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, SECURITY, proof of concept, Apple Macintosh, flaw, Apple Safari, operating system, Mac Attack, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Apple patches 20 security holes

Apple patches 20 security holesSo here's the quizHow many of those are OS flaws?Relevance??George, What's the relevance??? will you also start posting about all the other OS's when they've got an update??????Next week is Patch tuesday, I would expect an anouncement as well!!!!OK OKYou've convinced me - I'm selling my...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, TalkBack

Discussion threads 2006-03-02

Apple patches 20 security holes

Apple computer on Wednesday 3/2/2006 patched 20 security holes ranging from denial-of-service to very serious code execution flaws. Apple's security update 2006-001 fixes the following issues in OS X 10.3.9 to 10.4.5:Multiple PHP 4.4 issues in apache_mod_php. OS X File server DoS or arbitrary code execution with automount. Directory...

Tags: OS 10.4.5, flaw, code execution, operating system

Blog posts 2006-03-02

Dragster 1.61 (Mac)

Dragster is a utility that helps fix the Jaguar issue of not being able to drag and drop any files in the Finder or to and from the Dock. It also helps fix the missing icon issue that goes along with drag and drop issues.It does this by deleting the...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Issue, File, Dragster, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-06-15

RebuildDesktopX 1.0 (Mac)

SubRosaSoft RebuildDesktopX™ is a freeware utility for cleaning various caches on OSX that store information relating to the application binding, icons, etc... It is essentially similar to the old "rebuild the desktop file" found in older versions of MacOS but not found in OSX. For those technically inclined, this program...

Tags: Freeware, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-05-22