Recent content by symphonix

Hi all, I'm getting a database connection error when I go to webmail.macosx.com, and have been for a couple of days. Has the webmail address changed, or is something wrong with the webmail service?

BTW I believe there is a beta version of uTorrent for Mac OS X and the developers have every intention of putting a Mac version out very soon.

Another vote of confidence for Airport Express - they work brilliantly for streaming iTunes to another room. :-)

Yes, I can't help but notice that Apple have been making some big customer relations blunders lately. For a major app like iTunes to be released with such poor testing, and then with the patch to be released silently and without acknowledging an error, is poor form. For a new iPod Touch to be...

In my work we have deployed *lots* of HP tablets and touchscreen computers. They are by no means new. And there is a reason why they haven't caught on yet - while they are faily convenient for some uses, they're pretty inconvenient and awkward to use for most general users. Its surprising how...

I was thinking more of that episode where they have a fire in their kitchen, and Basil gets himself in the face with the extinguisher. "I mean, whats the point of having it, really? It sits there for years and years and when you actually need it, when you actually have a fire, it blows your head...

It was only a matter of time, I guess.

I'd suggest trying out Mozilla ThunderBird. It is free, highly customisable and may be more suited to your own tastes. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

I'd be surprised if a theme would make any real difference on that front. Perhaps there is something else that you have changed that could be having an impact. It might be another software program or plugni you've loaded that is using resources to connect to the network. If you're on a wireless...

I'd say entirely good. Of all the little tech problems I've had to deal with, wifi has never been an issue. I've only had to tweak it twice, once to allow BitTorrent to use port-forwarding, and once to allow my Nintendo DS to access the Internet (since the DS only supports a couple of...

I just thought I'd bring a couple of new Trojans to the attention of the MacOSX.com community. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001461.html Backdoor.Mac.Hovdy.a apparently isn't in the wild yet, but the source code for it is circulating, meaning it is only a matter of time. Being a...

Have you had a look in Hardware Profiler? (Go to Apple Menu -> About this Mac and click on "More info". You'll often be able to find devices listed even if they aren't formatted or readable.

The Mac software you'd be interested in is Mac OS X (Leopard) and iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD). Their official sites are http://www.apple.com/macosx/ and http://www.apple.com/ilife/. For office software, you might also be looking at iWork, however Macs ship with only a trial...

I wouldn't have trusted you in there either. ::evil::

It is hard to know without knowing at what point you've been compromised. If it was a vulnerability in VBulletin, or if your VBulletin password was insecure and was brute-force hacked, or had been picked up through being used at another site, then no, using a Mac would not have made a...