iTunes Parental Controls

iTunes 5 features new Parental Controls for music, music sharing and podcasts.

Bluetooth Security Tips

•     Enable Bluetooth only when you need it,
•     keep the device in non-discoverable (hidden) mode,
•     Use long and difficult to guess PIN key when pairing the device (key such as 1234 is unacceptable),
•     Reject all unexpected pairing requests,
•     Check list of paired devices from time to time to ensure there are no unknown devices on the list,
•     Update your mobile phone firmware to a latest version,
•     Enable encryption when establishing BT connection to your Computer.

Email Large Files with YouSendIt

Email large files quickly, securely, and easily with YouSendIt-!

Wireless Audio with Airfoil!

Rogue Ameoba has an amazing application with the ability to send any audio from your Mac to your AirPort Express.

OK, it's not free, but so worth it.

check out Airfoil now.

How To Use New iPod on OS9

Wow, this opens up the iPod entirely.



"after a few hours of hacking, I discovered the key to getting the new iPod to work with OS 9.2.1 is to down load and install iTunes 2.0.2. To access the hidden music files on new iPod is really quite simple using the Norton Disk Editor."

READ: How to get the new iPod to work with Mac OS 9.x

Contact Kanduco with Skype

Kanduco can now be contacted using Skype.

This software allows for both text and audio chats!

Skype Name: Kanduco, of course.


Happy Skyping!

iChatUSBCam

"iUSBCam from Ecamm Network is an add-on for iChat which allows you to use a USB webcam for video conferencing. It also enables Chat video conferencing on Macs which otherwise fall below Apple's system requirements for conferencing.

For example, with iUSBCam, you can use a Logitech QuickCam for video chat, or an iSight with a 500 MHz iBook."

I bought this up quick to use with my iBot FireWire web cam.
SEE PREVIOUS POST: iBOT FireWire WebCam for Mac!

Custom Mac OS X Boot CD

Create a custom Mac OS X Utilities CD
using CharlesSoft's BootCD.



It takes longer to boot than an Install Disc,
but you can add your own utilities, and
it has the Mac OS X Panther Finder and Desktop, yes really-!


Note: BootCD is unsupported, and is not compatible
with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Konfabulator widgets for Mac OS X

Konfabulator 1.7.1 installs "widgets",
mini applications.

It's real cool, try it out.

OSXvnc: Remote Control Server

Mac OS X application to serve remote control!

Not the Enterprise features of Timbuktu® Pro but it's FREE.

The new version 1.3.3 of OSXvnc is a Virtual Network Computing Server for Mac OS X 10.1 or later and works well with any VNC client over your local LAN and globally on the Internet WAN.

SEE: http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

VNC Clients are available for Mac OS 9, OS X, Windows 95/98/ME, 2000, XP. Many flavors of UNIX, LINUX, and many many more. For more info on VNC visit http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

MailEnhancer for Apple Mail

MailEnhancer v1.11 enhances the operation Apple’s Mail application.

• Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check
• Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check
• Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread
• Automatically update signature to match sending address

Senuti iPod Transfer FREEware

Transfer songs from your iPod back to your computer!



"Senuti is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to your computer quick and easy. It reads information from the iTunesDB file located on your iPod in order to quickly retrieve information on all of the songs on your iPod. Senuti is currently under active development and many features will be added in the future. Please donate to support future development.

Product Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Apple iTunes

SpyMac: Mac Community

This looks just too good to be true-!

"Welcome to Spymac World

Spymac World provides members with everything they need to fully utilize the Internet: free 1GB e-mail, 100MB of web space, a personal blog, iCal hosting, photo sharing and a vibrant community. To become a member, enter your desired Member Name and password below. Your Member Name cannot be changed at a later time and is also used as your e-mail address (membername@spymac.com) and as your sub-domain (http://membername.spymac.net).

Please note: Your Member Name can only contain numbers and letters (no special characters, dashes or periods) and your password must be a minimum of 6 characters.

Spymac Network, Inc. respects your privacy and we invite you to read our privacy policy. Your information will never be shared with or sold to a third-party."

Audio Hijack Pro!!!

Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro 1.2.6 for Mac.

Record audio straight from any software/hardware!

"Record from applications like iTunes, Skype or DVD Player. Record from microphones, Radiosharks and other hardware.

If you hear it, you can record it."

Hotmail HTTP Plugin for Apple Mail

Aren't you tired of logging in to Hotmail...

This free plug-in (courtesy of Daniel Parnell) for Apple’s Mail app lets you access your Hotmail account, stored on an httpmail server, from within Mail. This version works with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther only.

BusinessCard Composer for Mac OS X

BusinessCard Composer 2.1
makes great looking cards in a variety of styles, with templates and the ability to add your own pictures and art.

Pacifist opens .pkg and More!

"Pacifist 1.6.1 from CharlesSoft is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.

This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X.

Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.

*This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors."

MenuMeters 1.1.1 FREEware

MenuMeters 1.1.1 from Raging Menace is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for the MacOS X Menu Bar!

No more wondering if the computer is "busy", overloaded, or just taking it's time.

This is part of my Top 10 Things to Add to your Mac.

Myth II for Mac OS X

With the release of Myth II version 1.3.2
it's now possible to play on MAC OS X.


START YOUR GAME SERVERS...

SimpleText for Mac OS X

SimpleText 1.4 is included on the December 2002 Mac OS X Developers Tools CD (requires v10.2 or later. It's located here: /Developer/Applications/Extras.

It looks just like it always did.

Also available is BombApp. It does just that, and causes the Crash Log to open.
And Mac OS X keeps going without the old crashed application problems.

WireTap 1.0.0 Freeware!

Want to record any sound coming out of your Mac...

WireTap from Ambrosia Software Inc. is the way.

And did I mention it's FREE?

Folder Icon X 1.6.8

Create professional icons for your folders and more with Folder Icon X.