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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0)

This update contains several improvements to enhance security, stability, and performance, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For detailed information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.
Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special [...]


Flip4Mac & Windows Media Player 9

Microsoft:
As an alternative to Windows Media Player for Mac, Microsoft has teamed up with Telestream to make its popular Flip4Mac program available to Macintosh users. With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using [...]


MacOSX turn on SSH

This is a little tutorial on how to turn SSH on in Leopard MacOSX
First open System Preferences
Click on the “Sharing tab”
Down the left hand side of that windows you should have a list of services, on mine non of them were ticked, but the one for SSH is “Remote Login” put a tick in the [...]


New Toy

  After the whole phase of the Leopard running on my Dell GX620 i decided to go official…I have now moved away from Windows (well kinda i still have one XP Machine) but that is only because my Netgear Pig isnt compatiable with my new iMac. I decided to do it right and went for [...]


SABnzbd

Found another newsreader with NZB support, this one is web based and can be accessed from anywhere, so you could set news downloading anytime even when you are not at home.
It has many features like
· Download files from your newshost
· Access the news client from any internet connection.
· Connect from work, school, wherever and [...]


Free NewsGrabber with NZB support MacOSX!

Yeah baby! after checking the internet for quite a few hours i have finally discovered a FREE! Newsgrabber that supports NZB, for the time being i only wanted a free one, because i still have my windows machine running that i have newsleecher running on.
I have noticed a few glitches and things but all so [...]


ImgBurn for MacOSX :-( No No

Since i have turned over to the Dark Side (Apple) I have been looking all over for a decent image burner, on Windows i used to use ImgBurn but i recently found out that it isnt avaliable for Mac i came across a program that is very similar called SimplyBurns
It has a nice Gui [...]


MacOSX News Reader

My favourite news reader for Mac is NewsFire
NewsFire is a free download available from here
Creates a nice little Dock Icon

The App itself looks like this:

A nifty little tool, that does the hard work and makes reading on the web much easier!
It evens animates the dock and gives a ping when new updates are added.


Convert *.dmg to *.iso

hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso

Replace /path/to/filename.dmg with the path and name of the existing .DMG file,
and replace /path/to/savefile.iso with the desired path and name for the converted image.


Sync Multiple Macs

If you want to keep multiple Macs in sync then this may be just what you are looking for, i came across it today while looking on the net for macosx tweaks.
There is a nice little app called SyncTogether which can synchronize contacts, bookmarks, dock items, calendars and more…
Give it a try! You can download [...]