Mac encryption
Mac encryption is vital, because information is vital. Our personal and business information is critical, but, yet, so easy to steal in this day and age of internet access. Internet security and encryption is one of the first precautions that need to be taken on any computer system that we use and yes, while the mac is not as prone to virus issues as PC’s are, mac encryption is still important so that files are not destroyed or tampered with by outside threats. However, threats do not always come from virus, often times keeping our documents safe, involves just keeping them from others who may have onsite access to our computers at home or work, and often times these threats are not intentional.
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Loading ...Be Prepared for a Mac Hard Drive Recovery
Even though Mac’s are known to be very reliable computers, things do happen once in awhile. One of the worst things that can happen is a hard drive crash. A hard drive crash can be particularly devastating when a backup hasn’t been performed or hasn’t been performed as often as it should be. When this happens you may want to try to perform a Mac hard drive recovery. Mac users depend on Disk Utility for many problems that they have but it doesn’t provide any data recovery features. Having the correct diagnostic, repair, and data recovery tools can help you diagnose problems before there is a hard drive failure and to recover your data when the worst does happen.
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Posted by Barbara – guest writer for reviewmacsoftware.com
During the life of a Mac computer, we users sometimes do things without thinking. That includes deleting files that we realize some time afterward should not have been deleted. Then the question of a Mac undelete program starts swirling in our head. We hope there is a way to recover an accidentally deleted file.
Sure enough, there is a way but it is only as useful as you shutting off your Mac as close as possible to the accidental file delete event. If you have powered down and then powered up your Mac even just one time after deleting one or more files from your trash bin, you will not likely be able to recover the file.
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(2 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10) Loading ...Parallels For Mac
I recently reviewed VirtualBox in a previous article and gave it a good review, despite some shortcomings. Since that time I decided to try (and subsequently buy) Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. Part of the reason for my decision to do so was simply down to the fact that VirtualBox is now maintained by Oracle and I’m no fan of Oracle. They write great database apps but they have no business at all buying MySQL (except to inhibit it’s growth) and I see no reason why they should have bought Sun (and therefore VirtualBox). But that’s a different story.
The good news, from Parallels perspective is that Oracle buying Sun made me look at Parallels more closely!
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For many Mac OSX users there’s often occasions where you need to run some software or other that is only provided for under Microsoft Windows. The list of software for which that applies is thankfully getting smaller, but a couple of examples are paramount for me, as a web developer.
- Internet Explorer 6/7/8 (though 6 doesn’t feature so often)
- QuickBooks.
(3 votes, average: 9.67 out of 10) Loading ...ClickToFlash – Safari Plugin To Control Flash
One of the things that really drains the battery on your laptop quickly is visiting a site that has embedded flash. Whether that’s adverts, content or just whizzy looking graphics. And why would you want your browser to run at 20% of available CPU even when it’s not the active application or you’re just reading the news?
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(1 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10) Loading ...Sequel Pro
Sequel Pro is a MySQL Database Management Application for Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.4. It’s released under the GPL Open Source License and is a very capable MySQL management app. I’ve used a number of these over the years and Sequel Pro is probably the best fit for the needs of most average MySQL administrators / users. It’s not hugely feature rich, but it does what it does very well.
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Marc Liyanage has written a number of useful little apps and extensions for OSX, others of which will undoubtedly be reviewed here in due course. But for now we’re concentrating on the Open Terminal Here application, which adds a small icon to your Finder toolbar that looks thus;
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When I started my own business some years ago, one of the things I found the hardest was keeping track of all that client information. Everything was stored in different places, for example I might have notes from a meeting I’d had with the client last Thursday, stored in a folder somewhere on the file system. Then I’d have e-mails I’d received from them, stored in Thunderbird or MS Outlook depending on what was flavour of the month at the time. My appointments with the clients would be stored on Google Calendar and imported into Thunderbird or Outlook through some scary third party plugins or websites. Project data was probably on the file system – if I was lucky.
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