Did you know that you can quickly pull up a map of someone’s address directly from inside Mac OS X Leopard’s Address Book?
Simply right-click (or ctrl-click) on your contact’s address and choose “Map Of.” A Google Map of that location will open in your default browser!
Mac OS X 10.5.5 was released earlier yesterday, with a number of improvements. To get the update, click on the Apple menu and choose Software Update. (You will need to restart your computer.)
iTunes 8 is now available (now featuring Genius Playlists) as a free download from the Apple website, see what’s new.
View video tutorials on the Apple website on how to import music, make playlists, and more.
Check out the First Look from Macworld for an in-depth review of the new features.
Did you know that you can search Wikipedia right from the Dictionary application? As long as you have an internet connection, you have access to all of Wikipedia without opening a web browser. Read More
Frontline Systems recently released a new version of the linear programming and analysis tool, Solver, for Excel 2008. Read More
During one of the short outages last Wednesday, Novell authentication for users on the AD section of the Novell Network tree (administrators) was damaged.
This problem only affects Mac users connecting to Admin servers via AFP (i.e. “Connect to Server”). It does not affect Secure Shell/SFTP or FTP access to these servers.
While this problem is sorted out, you can still access the files on your Network Drive via SFTP (using an SFTP client). You can find instructions for connecting to a Network Drive using Fetch or using Fugu on TARA.
There are a few questions that come up again and again when I talk to Mac users who want to learn to use their computers more effectively. The two most important are: How do I install software? and how do I uninstall software? Read More
Yesterday Apple released Security Update 2008-005. This update fixes some long-standing major security holes in Leopard. It is highly recommended for all Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users.
To update your computer, click on the Apple Menu (in the upper left corner of your screen) and choose Software Update. The update isn’t too large but DOES require a RESTART so set aside a few minutes for the download & installation when you run Software Update.
For more information on the update read this article from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2647
If you use Dreamweaver CS3 and have a new Smith Mac with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Office 2008, or you are planning on upgrading to Office 2008 when it becomes available on campus, you’ll want to take note of this “quirk:”
Copying from an Office 2008 and pasting into a Dreamweaver CS3 document just doensn’t work! If you copy some text from an Office 2008 document and try to paste it into a Dreamweaver CS3 document, nothing “pastes,” and you are left with a blank document.
Luckily, there are a few work-arounds: Read More
Firefox 3 was released in June with a great deal of fanfare (setting the world record for most software downloaded in 24 hours) and a number of dramatic improvements.
To install Firefox 3, download it from the Mozilla website. Delete your current version of Firefox from the Applications folder, then drag the new new Firefox from the installer DMG into the Applications folder. It’s that easy!
