Category: 667: Long-Awaited Java Fix, Debug That USB!, Tip of the Week: App Switcher Drag & Drop

Higher Ground and Small Dog Electronics are teaming up to bring you ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to the HG Showcase Lounge on Sunday, June 21. “Read about Jake here.”:http://highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3198/ So… here’s where you need to pay attention: one lucky person will win a pair of tickets to the show, a 1GB iPod shuffle, and a…

I find myself using the Application Switcher function of Mac OS X dozens of times each hour during the work day. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can view it by holding down the Command key while repeatedly pressing the Tab key. There’s more to the Application Switcher than just switching applications. You can…

For the past few months I’ve been consulting for a local company that makes some pretty cool workout gear. They use a device that records several details about each workout and then can upload the information to their website to record and compare workouts (think a high-end version of the Nike+). The issue was that…

A few weeks ago, we posted an article about a critical security vulnerability in Java on Mac OS X. Morgan Aldridge wrote “It’s a couple of vulnerabilities that can be taken advantage of to run commands outside of the browser as the user that launched the browser.” “Read the original post here.”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/java-vulnerability-on-mac-os-x/ The vulnerability was…

Happy Tuesday, Almost eleven years following the release of Mac OS 8.5, Apple will release Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6, this September. Like 8.5, 10.6 will drop support for legacy processors. Back in 1997, Apple was three years into its transition from the Motorola family of 680×0 processors to the IBM and Motorola…