Resuna

Member since: Jul 15th, 2005

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MacDefender malware protection and removal guide (TUAW.com)

May 20th 2011 10:08AM "The only effective solution to stop Trojan Malware on the Mac platform is for Apple to improve Anti-Phishing Features, Code Signing and MalWare warnings. Obviously, the MalWare Warnings in Snow Leopard aren't adequate."

A better solution is to remove bad design features like automatically opening files after downloading. The fundamental idea that there are "safe files" is broken. There are no "safe files" on the web. There are "safe applications" to use for unsafe files, and the safe application to open an unsafe file is not necessarily the same application as you would use to open the same type of file (or even the same file) on the desktop.

I've been urging Apple to change this model (inherited in a sideways fashion from Microsoft) since 2004: http://scarydevil.com/~peter/io/osx-security.html

HP Slate has a bad solution to "too many stickers" syndrome (TUAW.com)

Oct 23rd 2010 1:36PM HP has been using this solution on their servers for the part number, serial number, iLo account name and iLo password for years. It works well. It's a better solution than Apple's tiny unreadable etchings that I have to strain my eyes to see every time I make a service call.

My trip through Time Capsule Hell leads to a different backup approach (TUAW.com)

Jul 12th 2010 10:19AM 1. I agree with the rest of the people who say "don't use a time capsule". Plug in a backup drive and run time machine at a frequency that makes you comfortable. I also keep a separate boot image - using Carbon Copy Cloner. Supposedly SuperDuper is 'better' but when I had to recover from a SD backup I ended up with a system that didn't boot. Recovering via Time Machine with a good TM backup*.

2. For the kids, tough love. "If you don't back your stuff up, or keep it on the house server, you lose it".

* If you want a good TM backup that you can actually recover a system from, follow ALL of Apple's rules. Including the 'GUID or APM partition table'. Why it cares, I have no idea, but it does.

Steve Jobs keynote live from WWDC 2008 (Engadget)

Jun 9th 2008 3:46PM What about coverage of the 2nd keynote, the Snow Leopard one?

Found Footage: Thinkpad MacBook Air parody (TUAW.com)

Apr 29th 2008 7:24PM Yeh, Lenovo, we know Apple hardware sucks, but we're willing to put up with lousy hardware because the alternative is putting up with lousy software. They're not called "Wintendos" for nothing.

Oh well.

At least the Macbook Air doesn't cost half as much again as comparable Wintel boxes, the way most Macs do... tell you what, you cut a deal with Apple to sell Thinkpads with a shiny shell and I'll pay half as much again for a Thinkpad running OS X... just make sure you get me one with a real GPU instead of the Intel junk.

EXCLUSIVE: Final 'Golden Compass' Posters! (Cinematical)

Oct 11th 2007 4:21PM I sure hope she doesn't "star" too much, she's the villain, the focus of the first book is on Lyra.

Common Mistakes Made by New Mac Users (TUAW.com)

Jan 29th 2006 12:50PM THe Applications Folder and Installers are two things that really tick me off.

Maybe one program in 100 really needs an "installer".

The rest should just give you an application icon you can drag wherever you want.

I'm sick and tired of having to open up my Applications folder and find programs that had been dropped there by installers and drag them back to my personal Applications folder.

What, you don't have a personal Applications folder?

It's great. It really takes advantage of the strengths of the Mac. I can take that puppy and drag it to a flash drive or burn a DVD and I've got ALL my personal tools right there, everything I use that isn't part of the system. Leave Apple's stuff (and the occasionally stupidly recalcitrant app) in Applications, and keep your own stuff in your local folder.

Common Mistakes Made by New Mac Users (TUAW.com)

Jan 29th 2006 12:38PM #57: it still takes at least 10-15s to open an application in OS X. That's too long. Even a 7500 or a bloody SE/30 should be able to load a program and open a window faster than that, and it ticked me off how long it took back then, but a GHz CPU? What in the name of all that's holy is it DOING?

Common Mistakes Made by New Mac Users (TUAW.com)

Jan 29th 2006 12:26PM "untitled folder 1..." is because of a bug in OS X Finder prior to Panther. You create a new folder in some views and for some inexplicable reason it would briefly open the name for editing then close it, so you started entering the name and it'd treat your keystrokes as search.

Now me, I would swear and find the folder and rename it. But I can easily see someone creating a new folder again and again and again. It's fixed in 10.3.9 and later, but an upgraded system is likely to have all kinds of trash.

BTW, I would MUCH rather have it do something like pop up a dialog box and ask for the name of the folder instead of creating a folder with the wrong name and letting you rename it to the right one... maybe it could just not create the folder at all until you hit return?

"Trying to resize a window from an edge rather than the lower right hand corner."

You should be able to do this, damnit. Anyone know a program that'll let me resize windows from more places than the lower right hand corner?

Poster #14: I fully endorse this complaint.

"I also don't understand why my girlfriend hasn't entered names in her iChat buddy list."

Because if she uses real names she'll never remember their screen names when she uses someone else's computer.

"Why's the recycle bin not on the desktop?"

Good bloody question. Why did they remove the trash can from the desktop when going from OS 9 to OS X?

"saving all their documents in their home folder not in their 'documents' folder"

Bah. I save stuff in folders named by what they're for. Both Mac and Windows users seem to have thousands of documents jammed into "Documents" or "My Documents".

Probably because just about every app out there resets to saving there when you start it up. Like, OK, I open a PNG in "Preview", export it as "TGA", does it export to the folder I was working in? Hell no, there it goes, another lost file in "Documents". Even when the original file was in "Documents/something" to begin with!

I'd also like more consistent keyboard accelerators, and more control over them.

And I've been using a Mac more than Windows for years.

Two new Power Mac Observations (TUAW.com)

Oct 19th 2005 5:27PM Who cares what mouse it comes with, you're going to chunk it and buy a Microsoft Optical mouse anyway, aren't you? Apple's mice have always been the picture under "suck" in the encyclopedia, after all.