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Archive for February, 2006

First Mac Virus hits the Net

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Perhaps you’ve heard that Mac OS X has its first live malware infection. Okay, it isn’t really a virus but a worm or trojan horse. It was first reported by Heise Online and is known as the Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit.
For a detailed technical description of this exploit visit Daring Fireball.

Google Page Creator

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Google has just announced Google Page Creator a free online web site builder. It is currently in beta, which means that Google doesn’t claim that it works 100% yet. But like Google’s past publically available betas, Gmail and Google Maps, it seems pretty solid.
Google Page Creator is a very simple online Website designer program that […]

DOM Scripting - Book Review

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

If the book simply promoted “best practices” it would be worthwhile. But this is a damn good teaching text, too.

Camino reaches full release

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

After a several years in development, Camino has finally arrived. Camino is now a version 1.0 program and officially out of beta.
Camino is a Mac Web browser based on the Gecko/Mozilla rendering engine. But unlike its cross-platform sisters Firefox and SeaMonkey, Camino is built on and for Macs. And, yea, verily, it is […]

Cyberduck, a great free FTP program

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Cyberduck is the most polished free Mac FTP program available. It’s GPL Open Source, too. If you have modest FTP requirements it may be all you need. And, I love the rubber ducky icon. It’s worth having a copy just to have the ducky in the dock.

In Search of the Lost Cursor

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Ever lose your mouse arrow (cursor) on your screen and have to squiggle the mouse around to find it? It’s no wonder you can’t see the arrow. Macintosh cursor arrow size was defined way back at the beginning when all Macs had those little 9 in screens. As our monitors got bigger and pixel size […]

Fighting Fasterfox

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Fasterfox is one of the most popular extensions for Firefox. It is currently ranked as the 3rd most downloaded extension for Firefox on Mozilla Update page. (aka. Firefox Add-ons) The latest version of Fasterfox, v1.0.3, checks the for the robots.txt file on the site the viewer is visiting to check whether it should pre-fetch or […]