so my school gives everyone macbooks and they have ichat unblocked but u cant video chat at all or share screens. when u hit someones video camera it pops up that u sent them a request to video chat but then the person will never recieve it. also on a side note i can video chat with non mac users. my friend has a dell with a webcam i can vid chat with but i cant video chat with other macs. so is there a way i can change the settings or something so that i can video chat with other mac users? my school has ALOT of blocks so idk if its possible but i wasnt sure. im using 10.5.4. also i went to video>connection doctor>capabilities and they all have a green check mark next to each category

Posted by Dennis Sellers

TidBITS Publishin has released ”Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard,” a 147-page ebook that explains how to sync data from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) with other Macs and a variety of devices from Apple and other companies.

.. something like this free security suite from Trendmicro ?.
http://shop.trendmicro.com/trialpay/

I keep reading more reports of malware and the like from time to time , like on Trendmicro's own blog ( what a surprise) .
http://blog.trendmicro.com/new-malwa...ens-mac-users/


all seems a bit iffy to me .


seem iffy to you ?

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/security/" rel="tag"Security/a/pimg vspace="8" hspace="8" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/trendmicrologo.png" alt="" /Computer security company a href="http://us.trendmicro.com/us/home/index.html?utm_source=www.trendmicro.comamp;utm_medium=referralamp;utm_campaign=www.trendmicro.com" target="_blank"Trend Micro/a is reporting that a new a target="_blank" href="http://blog.trendmicro.com/new-malware-threatens-mac-users/"Mac OS X malware application/a is making the rounds. The application, called OSX_LAMZEV.A, gives hackers a way to take control of infected Macs. This is the a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/18/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-making-the-rounds/" target="_blank"second report of Mac OS X malware/a this week.br /br /This is not a virus, and users must actually launch the app for it to install its payload. Once running, the app also asks which firewall port it can use. Trend Micro reports that "Mac users may be infected when they access remote websites hosting this backdoor. The backdoor may also be disguised as a legitimate application and may be installed and executed on systems."br /br /Many Mac OS X-based malware seems to be similar in nature, requiring users to actually launch the installer and give it permission to install the payload. Unlike Windows-based malware, you shouldn't need to install any anti-malware apps to annoy you and slow down your Mac. Just make sure to follow the basic rules of Internet safety -- don't install applications that aren't legitimate or visit Web sites that you don't trust.br /br /For more details, be sure to visit the a href="http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=OSX%5FLAMZEV%2EAamp;VSect=T" target="_blank"Trend Micro Virus Encyclopedia./ap style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/new-mac-os-x-malware-osx_lamzev-a/"New Mac OS X malware - OSX_LAMZEV.A/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://blog.trendmicro.com/new-malware-threatens-mac-users/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/new-mac-os-x-malware-osx_lamzev-a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1379642/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/new-mac-os-x-malware-osx_lamzev-a/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mFhZb5fXXkEQ-yssxYuPtvD6cqc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mFhZb5fXXkEQ-yssxYuPtvD6cqc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=PlBV7Vkf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=PlBV7Vkf" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=RuKJnQJD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=RuKJnQJD" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/gzJAB__X0Ec" height="1" width="1"/

Hello- I feel a bit like an interloper here. I don't own a Mac. But many of the Professors our Dept. at the University I work at do have them. Mostly Powerbook I think.

I also know this is a real long shot but here's the problem: Profs come in to one of about 80 rooms and display their laptops on data projectors. Seldom is there a problem there. But several of them have trouble getting audio to play when they insert the 3.5mm stereo plug we provide into the Mac's headphone jack. It's not that the mac doesn't play the sound- just that the contact between the plug (male) that we provide and the (female) headphone jack seems a bit dicey. We've replaced the cable/male connector 3 or 4 times and no-one with a PC has ever reported this problem. Our test equipment has no problem. It just seems to be Macs which appear to have just the tiniest bit of "play" in the headphone jack.

Have any of you Mac users experienced anything like this when plugging anything into the headphone jack? There'd be no contact or scratchy contact. If so, does Apple use a non-standard 3.5mm plug? Any insight woudl be welcome!
Thanks.

adamengst writes in with good news for anyone who needs to collaborate remotely on a writing or editing project mdash; coding too. Its especially good news for those using Windows and Linux. Mac users have had SubEthaEdit for a few years now. With EtherPad, two or more people can edit a document and see all the edits simultaneously. EtherPads main differences from SubEthaEdit: its a Web application that de facto supports many platforms without the need for a central Mac OS X host; and its free. Here is a comparison of EtherPad and SubEthaEdit.pa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/1626208amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/21/1626208 //a/ppa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/1626208amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/kRZHL5VvJF3aToLqdmt9To3s3d4/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/kRZHL5VvJF3aToLqdmt9To3s3d4/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1abCqA1YBxs height=1 width=1 /

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Mark/Space, the creators of the Missing Sync synchronization software, has released a Mac version of Fliq, a social networking application that lets Mac users “fliq,” or “beam,” contacts, photos and notes with other Fliq users on the same network.

Shrook 2.64

Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom.

Feature highlights included synchronization, full podcast support, smart groups, built-in browser and innovative user-interface.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.64: Sparkle automatic updating. More robust XML processing. New icon. Various bug fixes.
REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
DEVELOPERGraham Parks
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I'm a PC. However, my true love is Apple (products). Anyway, once my checkbook catches up my "heart" I will be the proud owner of a 15" or 17" Power Book. My questions are as follows:


1) How would you describe the perfect (Apple) Laptop?

2) Who is the typical Mac user? Are they creative professionals?

3) If Apple stopped making laptops would you switch to a PC laptop or would you continue upgrading your Mac until all parts were obsolete and you could no longer upgrade

4) Name one thing you wish Apple would add to their laptops

5) Name one thins you wish Apple would drop from their laptops

6) Does Apple nickle and dime their users when it comes to purchasing laptops?

7) What's the best thing about owning a MacBook?

8) What's the worst thing about owning a MacBook?

I genuinely welcome everyone' feedback. As I mentioned previously, I'm a PC who would like to understand more about the Mac Mystique. As I continue saving I should be able to afford that Mac Pro Book within a matter of months.

Thanks in advance

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4874d7a1796c7aa60049d72dmaxX=293maxY=205" border="0" alt="lively.JPG" title="lively.JPG" width="293" height="205" /Less than five months after launch, Google (GOOG) is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/that-was-quick-google-kills-virtual-world-lively-goog-"shutting down virtual world Lively/a. The a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html"reason/a it's going away: It's useless to Google's search ad business. Which is why the company said it's dumping Lively to "focus more on our core search, ads and apps business."/p pBut that doesn't mean that Google couldn't have built a decent virtual world if it wanted to. If Google wasn't under the gun by a tanking economy, and if they had real incentive to build a virtual world, here's how they could have made Lively more successful:/p ol listrongHold up the launch of Windows- and Internet Explorer-only Lively until it runs on Firefox and the Mac./strong A disproportionate number of the early-adopter community uses the Mac and/or the Firefox web browser. If you throw a Hail Mary like "everyone get avatars and move into 3D chat," you need the Firefox and Mac users on board right away. (This goes for Google Chrome too, the company should port it to the Mac ASAP.)/li listrongScrub the virtual world completely free of sex and violence./strong In Lively, you could use the "crush" command to make an anvil fall out of the sky and wallop another user's avatar, or use "kick" to hit someone in the groin. It was funny. Actually, it was so funny a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/google-s-lively-is-just-like-second-life-no-one-s-there-but-perverts-and-griefers-goog-"all anyone did in Lively was try "punch" or "choke" anyone in range/a. And some of Lively's avatar designs -- especially the anthropomorphic animals -- were creepy enough, even without random furries always trying to beat you up or romance you./li listrongShowcase what can be done with the technology./strong Here Google made the same mistake with Lively that Linden Lab made with Second Life -- it put its virtual world technology out into the public domain and thought its mission ended there. It doesn't. Google should have hosted its own Lively rooms and held events in them, encouraging new users to try out the service. Lively rooms would have been a great tie-in with other Google services like Orkut or Google Groups -- but Google was content to let Lively flounder alone at lively.com./li listrongMake Lively an extension of Google's advertising platform/strong. It would have been relatively easy for Google to program Lively to include advertisements piped in from elsewhere on the web, so a virtual room contains a space a few hundred pixels square that rotates through an ad in Google's inventory. The company could then split revenue with any website that hosts and gets traffic to an ad-enabled Lively room -- just like it does with flat web pages via AdSense. There's probably only pennies involved, especially in this ad climate. And good luck finding advertisers who prefer avatars to real customers. But Lively could have been much more likely to propagate if people had financial incentive to use it./li /ol pOf course, Google did none of these things. The point: Watchers of the fledgling virtual worlds industry -- which raised a href="http://www.virtualworldsmanagement.com/2008/q3.html"almost half a billion dollars/a in investment just in the first three quarters of this year -- shouldn't read Google's departure from the game as a negative verdict on the virtual worlds idea as a whole. Google didn't even really try./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/that-was-quick-google-kills-virtual-world-lively-goog-"That Was Quick: Google Kills Virtual World 'Lively'/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/google-s-lively-is-just-like-second-life-no-one-s-there-but-perverts-and-griefers-goog-"Google's Lively Is Just Like Second Life -- No One's There But Perverts And Griefers/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/google-no-sex-in-second-life-killer-lively-goog-"Google: No Sex in Second Life-Killer Lively/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FS1ggcHEQwJGFTT_ZBmrcFBaArY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FS1ggcHEQwJGFTT_ZBmrcFBaArY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xwdkqqI2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=xwdkqqI2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=S5aUI9CV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Wzg3dxfW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=5jaj06tj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=5jaj06tj" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=v49baHgr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=nLs3hMiZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=89cIT4g8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OZf6L5p7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/SL9eoEg_cfw" height="1" width="1"/

I've had my 1.6ghz (Rev A) Air for a few weeks now. Bought it NEW off Ebay for $1225.

I have to say that it changed the way I use a laptop. I take it everywhere, everyday. It's nice to be able to listen to music from my 500GB MacBook (share) and browse the web, watch YouTube, Top Gear on iTunes, Apple KeyNotes, etc. on the Air, in bed or on the coach. The Air never got too hot and its weight is awesome. I've taken it across the country through many airports. I love being able to video iChat with my girlfriend while away. My girlfriend who is not Mac user, but she is starting to love the Air when she gets her hands on it. I may buy her one just so she don't use mine. hehehehe.....
I didn't buy the SuperDrive and I don't regret it. Remote Disc works BEST on Ethernet. Forget WiFi, it takes forever.

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This is the first time i'm going to buy a Mac or use a mac, or even my first time buying a computer. My question is this : Is 1GB enough for me?

Here are some specifics :
I would only use Imovie, iphoto, safari, msn, itunes, limewire, games, and other movie making softwares.
I Would make alot of movies, and upload alot of photos.
I want safari to be fast, same for my other programs..

Please help me! :):confused: