HP’s Dunn blames ex-board member for downfall

FormerHewlett - Packardchairmen Patricia Dunn and Carly Fiorina each cited board appendage Thomas Perkins as an instigator behind their ousters from the technology company , according to audience the two gave Sunday night . Dunn told newswriter Lesley Stahl that Perkins , of the Silicon Valley venture capital firmKleiner Perkins , launch a campaign to force Dunn off the board over how she conducted an probe of council chamber leaks ....

October 8, 2006 · 3 min · 542 words · Elizabeth Mitchell

iBiz 2.5.3

iBiz is a time - billing and invoicing lotion by IGG Software , the Godhead of iBank ( ) and iPaste ( ) . Aimed at self - apply and humble - business work surroundings , it features a white , Mac - corresponding interface and provide integration with iCal and Address Book . After induction , you may create new customer record and add job events and sub - result to your undertaking ....

October 8, 2006 · 3 min · 638 words · Alison Conway

Podcast Transcript: Wi-Fi security

This a complete transcript of Macworld Podcast 55 : Wi - Fi certificate and iTV . The theme of this podcast is Wi - Fi and my Edgar Albert Guest is Glenn Fleishman , a Wi - Fi expert and free-lance author who writes for numerous publication include Macworld , TidBITS , and the Seattle Times . And we are going to talk about Mac Wi - Fi security issues as well as the future of Wi - Fi , faster variant of Wi - Fi and how Wi - Fi and Apple ’s forthcoming iTV product might interact ....

October 8, 2006 · 40 min · 8391 words · Gerald Adams

Review: Vortex for iPod

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict A couple of the first batch of premium game released for the iPod are of particular note , not inevitably because of what they are but who made them — orchard apple tree itself . Apple is n’t known as a game publisher , although the company has included game from third parties with its consumer Macs for years . One of Apple ’s home - grow iPod offering is call Vortex ....

October 8, 2006 · 3 min · 636 words · Christopher Mack

Hackers find use for Google Code Search

Google has inadvertently give online attackers a raw tool . The company’snew seed - code hunting engine , unveiled Thursday as a putz to aid simplify life for developers , can also be misused to research for software bugs , password information , and even proprietary codification that should n’t have been place to the Internet in the first lieu , security experts said Friday . Unlike Google ’s primary Web hunting locomotive , Google Code Search peek into the actual lines of codification whenever it get seed - codification files on the cyberspace ....

October 6, 2006 · 3 min · 527 words · Charles Decker

Cruising along the EVDO superhighway

For the preceding two months , my MacBook Pro and I have been mirthfully — and seamlessly — connected to the Web 24/7 , no matter where we ’ve been — be it Boston , San Francisco , Syracuse , Portland or Seattle ; up Interstate 5 from San Francisco to Seattle or on Interstate 84 alongside the Columbia River in Oregon . I have been connected , not by hopping on and off usable wireless hotspots , but via Novatel ’s V640 EVDO card and Verizon’sBroadbandAccess ConnectEVDO inspection and repair ....

October 5, 2006 · 4 min · 822 words · Elizabeth Johnson

Find local network devices using ping

Here in the Oregon HQ formacosxhints.com , we ’ve got a few devices on our local internet . There are the Macs , of course , and a networked Brother optical maser printer , the AirPort Base Station , and our ( rarely used any longer , thanks toParallels DesktopandBoot Camp ) get on personal computer . Then there are the random thing that come and go , such as the occasional machine from my wife ’s office , or products for review , such as the Axis 207W wireless camera ....

October 5, 2006 · 6 min · 1091 words · Ronald Foster

Review: Zuma for iPod

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Although many Mac user who play games may be more familiar with MacPlay ’s Luxor or Big Fish Games ’ Atlantis , the primogenitor of many of these marble - matching plot is Zuma , developed byPopCap Games . PopCap has create a edition to run on the iPod , and it ’s okay , though some of the limitations of the iPod start to show through ....

October 5, 2006 · 4 min · 799 words · Brenda Myers

Turn widgets into applications

I like Dashboard . There , I said it . Yes , it can hog organization imagination and be ( very ) slow to launch , but it incorporate into my work flow very well : I use it many times each sidereal day for prompt access to OS X ’s Dictionary , the PCalc 3 whatchamacallit , weather updates , WidgetTerm , sports grade , and more . For me , it really is a productivity enhancer ....

October 5, 2006 · 5 min · 915 words · Jonathan Bowers

Apple’s Time Machine: Forward into the past?

Being a Mac OS go backup tool is n’t the main reason Time Machine is significant . There have been any number of free , shareware and commercial-grade support tool for quite some time . But Time Machine is a step ahead of competitors because it ’s project by Apple as a backup instrument for the medium data processor user , intend that it is very simple to utilise , with virtually no management or supervision need ....

October 4, 2006 · 6 min · 1275 words · Edward Keller

Blogging tools highlight Contribute 4 release

blogger will get a boost with the late translation of Contribute , the Web publishing tool loose by Adobe Thursday . Contribute 4integrates blog print features into the WWW land site sustentation and direction pecker aimed at business users . Other additions in this major upgrade admit unified World Wide Web publishing and Flash Video support . However , Contribute 4 will not carry natively on Intel - based Macs ; it will run using Apple ’s Rosetta emulation technology ....

October 4, 2006 · 3 min · 547 words · Megan Campbell

Former Apple CFO resigns from board after investigation

Apple announce Wednesday the results of a three - month investigating into the company ’s stock option practices , and former Apple Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) Fred Anderson announced that he “ believe it is in Apple ’s good interest ” for him to resign from the companionship ’s control board of directors . “ I apologize to Apple ’s shareowner and employee for these trouble , which happened on my watch , ” say Apple CEO Steve Jobs ....

October 3, 2006 · 3 min · 457 words · Devin Wood

HP’s Dunn, four others indicted in pretexting case

Ousted Hewlett - Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn , a former company attorney , and three outdoor investigators were charged Wednesday in California on felony commission relate to the conduct of an investigation to cross down news leaks from the HP circuit board that allegedly break Department of State law . California Attorney General Bill Lockyer ’s authority saidcharges have also been filedagainst Kevin Hunsaker , a former senior lawyer at HP ; Ronald L....

October 3, 2006 · 4 min · 849 words · Claire Terry MD