Category: 761: I Smell a RAT, Supplemental Update for 13″ Air, Transferring from iOS Devices, A Note on Mac OS X 10.6.7

In last week’s issue, we published an article detailing the release of Mac OS X v10.6.7, which was made available Monday, March 21 for all Snow Leopard users. Following the update’s release, issues began to surface surrounding the operating system’s handling of OpenType PostScript fonts and PDF files. For users with a myriad–pardon the font…

Transferring documents between your iPad/iPhone/iPod touch and Mac/PC is a very simple and straightforward process. Apple has made it easy to do by implementing the functionality directly in iTunes. Though the process may be simple, the interface to do so may not be immediately apparent to most users. The capability to transfer files to your…

Last week, Apple released Mac OS X v10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13″ MacBook Air. The update–released exclusively for the 2010 model of 13″ MacBook Air–focuses solely on an issue causing machines to freeze while running iTunes. The support document accompanying the update states: This update addresses an issue that makes the system unresponsive when using…

Back in February, the Apple world was rocked by the announcement of a Trojan called BlackHole RAT (Remote Access Trojan) that could allow someone to access a machine remotely, without the knowledge or permission of the user. (Okay, so maybe “rocked” is an exaggeration; more likely a couple of people yawned and clicked through to…

Happy Tuesday, Every now and then one of us watches a dog while his or her humans are on vacation. Murphy, a sweet and very tall golden retriever, has been hanging out in the sales office this week. Her stature certainly doesn’t affect her agility, and she’s fitting right in with Arlo, Ziggy, Waylon and…