The Mac may be the best defense against most viruses and spyware, but there is still a need to be careful out there when riding on the wild internet. According to an advisory from Secunia, the flaw uses a visual trick to convince users that they are at a web …

OK, I don't think that I'm going to offend any die-hard PC lovers with this pointer to the review from DivisionTwo, which has got to be the most clueless review of Apple's new Mac Mini. The review is written from the point of view of a PC user who is …

The University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign) has announced the Turing Cluster, a 640-node XServe cluster running OS X Server 10.3. Partially funded by a donation from Apple (although nobody is saying how partially), it's available for public access inside of the University's research community and student population.

An interesting take on the Macintosh Mini from ComputerWorld senior news columnist Frank Hayes today at MacCentral. Basically, he thinks it is going to have an effect on the IT marketplace, and probably for the better, but not because it will take off, mostly because it puts Apple aiming computers …

When Apple's Macintosh Mini was announced, people noticed that it was conveniently smaller than a standard DIN car stereo. However, CNet is reporting that Classic Restorations (a New York based auto restoration company) has already announced its intention to put Mac Minis inside of cars. No word yet on pricing …

Appearing on the Xbench comparison site yesterday, the Mac Mini (1.42GHz, the US$599 model) results. I did a quick comparison of that to the iMac G5 and found it to be about 2/3 of the speed (overall) (not surprising given that was a 1.8GHz G5). Comparing …

It's not a huge surprise to have the CEO of Dell (Kevin Rollins) decrying Apple's business strategy, but in this article in Silicon.com, Rollins shows some interesting "insights" (so to speak) about consumer electronics and the consumer industry. At one point, he remarks that the iPod is a "one …

Wired has an article about Delicious Monster, an up-and-coming software company specializing in Mac software. Their first product Delicious Library, provides those of us who have a need to catalog our DVDs, books, CDs, etc with an easy way to do this. Unfortunately, I have barely used the software, but …

I know, everybody's getting sick about hearing people say nice things about Steve, but here's a nice article from the Times explaining why they made him their business person of the year.

Apple's usually highly-visited site is currently providing a message of condolence ("Our hearts reach out to those hurt by the Indian Ocean tsunamis") and pointers to a wide variety of relief organizations. Cool.

An article from the Radiological Society of North America describes radiologists using iPods to carry around images in iPods instead of dragging film around.

In an interesting development and a boon to Apple's fledgling storage product line, Oracle is quoted by CNet in this article as using 50 to 100TB of XServe RAID storage in their own environment. Also of note is an announcement by Apple that they expect Oracle's 10g software to be …

Check out this new card from Sonnet (long-time supporters of the Macintosh for high- quality third-party drive ATA and SATA controllers). They've put 4 internal and 4 external drive attachments on this puppy for $199. Did I mention it can take advantage of PCI-X? Can you say 546MB/sec RAID …

A new program called RendezvousVPN is now available from Phillippe Hauser that creates a Rendezvous tunnel between two networks. It's unclear to me whether it tunnels all of the traffic or just the Rendezvous traffic, but my guess is the former, as it would be more difficult to get around …

A paper published by the NSA, describes security measures to be taken to keep Macintosh OS X Panther Client safe. The doc is up to date as of October 15th (10.3.5) and covers only the Client. Of particular interest, though is the paragraph about initial configuration. The NSA …

Are you a Mac user who uses Garmin or Magellan GPS devices? Sick of having to load maps with a PC or software emulator? Well, then get on the ball and sign the petition from GPS City to get them both to move their software to the Mac.

I'm not sure what it means, but I'm guessing it isn't good for users of Retrospect. Dantz announced on October 12 that they have been acquired by EMC, the storage manufacturer. There is an FAQ from Dantz, which says basically nothing about the issue. However, an article from Bynkii.com …

A detailed article from AFP548.com (Macintosh server administrator's website) gives a pretty disturbing description of a problem that has been around in OSX for a while. The good news: it was finally fixed in the September 30, 2004 security patch. Those of you doing insecure management of OSX Servers …

Another company is reevaluating its Windows-based desktop requirements and is looking at Apple's MacOS X and Linux as alternatives. Of particular interest in the article from Cnet is the comment from the AT&T CIO stating "There's competition; there's choice now. Any CIO would not be doing due diligence if …

Useful, no. Cute, perhaps. Somebody out there in mod-land has decided to take emulation to the limit and has posted instructions for getting Apple's OS X to run on an X-Box. The process takes about 10 hours and results in a relatively useless installation of OSX, but it is definitely …