Author: Dave Lewis
September 10, 2007 at 6:32 am · Filed under Mac Software
Growl is a great notification program that I rely on a fair bit. This is an excellent app for being alerted to system problems, incoming emails et cetera.
From the Growl Site:
Why use Growl?
*Control
Growl offers you complete control over which notifications are shown and how they are displayed. You will not receive any notifications that you do not want, because you can easily turn notifications (specific ones or all of them) off.
*Consistency
Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preference pane - you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.
*Ease of use
When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will “just work.” Your apps can start displaying notifications right away.
*Powerful
Growl is very flexible. Notifications can be emailed to you or spoken instead of displayed on the screen.
The latest release (version 1.1) is now out and available for download.
New stuff
* There is now a global positioning system built into Growl (took 2 years to make!).
* There are now close buttons available on notifications when you mouse over them.
* Multiple performance enhancements/memory leaks fixed up. The only problem at this point should be webkit message views.
* Totally redesigned applications tab.
* There is now a sound option available per notification.
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Tags: Growl, Growl Notifications, Alerting
Author: Dave Lewis
September 10, 2007 at 6:17 am · Filed under Mac Software
Parallels for Mac build version 5158 is now available.
From Version Tracker:
Recycle Bin integration - Ability to drag and drop files from Windows to Mac OS X trash bin
Stability and resources usage
- Overall CPU and memory resources usage - optimized
- Random kernel panics on virtual machine startup - fixed
- Choppy sound in Windows Media Player 11 in Vista – fixed
Coherence
- “Show/Hide Windows Taskbar” option - improved
- In some rare cases Vista Logoff/Login in Coherence may cause segmentation fault - fixed
Parallels Tools
- ‘Hi’ window sometimes appeares on Windows shutdown - fixed
- SIW program crashes Parallels Tools Center - fixed
- Drag-n-drop sometimes works incorrectly - fixed
- Parallels Tools Center CPU usage - optimized
Disks and folders sharing
- Problem with Shared Profile synchronization after reverting to snapshot – fixed
- Shared Profile - Windows Desktop and Explorer’s windows refresh - improved
Video and 3D
- Force Suspend for OpenGL – added (you can suspend virtual machine with running or crashed OpenGL applications)
Other
- F8 key added to virtual keyboard and Send Keys menu
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Tags: Parallels for Mac, Parallels, Mac
Author: Dave Lewis
September 9, 2007 at 4:56 pm · Filed under Apple
It appears that there may have been a slip up at Apple. With the latest update to iTunes there appears to be support for as of yet unannounced movie rentals.
More on this story here, here and here.
Tags: Apple, iTunes Movie Rentals, Mac OS X
Author: Dave Lewis
September 9, 2007 at 3:08 pm · Filed under Tools
Here is a handy Mac tool for downloading entire websites. This is a handy app for doing website penetration tests or for just generally understanding the structure of a site.
SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.
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Tags: Sitesucker, Mac, Free Tool, Web Spider
Author: Dave Lewis
September 9, 2007 at 1:31 pm · Filed under Administravia
Hi folks, Dave Lewis here. More often than not I have found an urge to write about Mac/Apple topics on Liquidmatrix Security Digest. And time and again they have little if anything to do with security. So, as a result I have set up this sub domain to handle that part of my brain. I will continue to have Security Digest as my primary site.
Feel free to send in tips to (tips AT liquidmatrix DOT org)
Thanks!
Tags: Dave Lewis, Liquidmatrix, Tribal Mac, Mac, Apple, Mac OS X, Blogging
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