I recently set-up some new iMacs, the 21.5in, 3Ghz ones running 10.6.2. All seems to be going well. However, I soon discovered a number of major problems with third party software after the iMac’s were given out the test group of users. The problems listed below have resulted in delaying the roll out of 25 [...]

This is a simple guide explaining the type of website that I can build for you. It explains what you need to do before I can determine what you require, etc… [...]

Macintosh Security Company Intego, the developers of VirusBarrier have released a report on Mac and iPhone security for 2009.

The report focuses on various Trojan horse attacks, malware found in Torrent application downloads, attacks on jailbroken iPhones, Mac OS X vulnerabilities and third party vulnerabilities. [...]

Hello and welcome to the Cool-ade website/blog.

My name is Adrian and this website acts as the online presence for my career in computing. It gives me a platform to share knowledge, to express views and showcase work. See the about page for more information. [...]

MacOS X Leopard (10.5) doesn’t save resource fork information (._ hidden files) on the Isilon by default. Leopard uses the Isilon SMB Alternate Data Streams (ADS) feature which allows metadata such as resource fork data to be stored. However, MacOS X Tiger (10.4) cannot use ADS. Therefore, files (without extensions) written to the Isilon from Leopard(10.5) cannot be identified by Tiger (10.4) unless ADS is disabled. [...]

Firefox can authenticate with Active Directory using Kerberos single sign-on. It works on both Macs and PCs. This allows automatic authentication to intranets or specific internal company websites.

See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html for the specifics on how it works. [...]