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Importing Mozilla Firefox bookmarks into Safari on your Mac is really easy. Firefox stores its bookmarks in an HTML file that can be parsed by Safari. In Safari, simply click on the File menu and select Import Bookmarks. This will open a file selection dialog box. Firefox stores its bookmarks …
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Former Lotus Notes users may prefer to see unread messages in red rather than just bold. Microsoft Outlook uses two different views to display message lists to the user: Messages and Messages with AutoPreview. We will need to change the font color to red in both views to ensure that …
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If you're like me, you abandoned non-free virtualization options in favor of
VirtualBox. I use VirtuaBox every day on my iMac in
order to perform Windows or Linux specific tasks. Since Sun
released VirtualBox 3 this summer,
they continued to improve the product. Check out the ChangeLog
to see what …
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Today (Aug 28, 2009) is the big day for Mac OS X lovers. Snow Leopard has finally been released. If you were smart enough to pre-order it on Amazon then you'll be getting it soon. Not only that, but you saved \$4 off the list price!
On a related note …
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Firefox 3.5.2 was released by the Mozilla Project today. This release is mainly a security fix and all users are advised to download the new update as soon as possible. Please take the time to download this important security update today.
A list of security fixes is available …
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Only two weeks after the release of Firefox 3.0.12, the Mozilla Project has issued another release of Firefox 3. Firefox 3.0.13 includes several security fixes.
Rather than updating to this release, I recommend updating to the latest version of Firefox 3.5. Firefox 3.5 includes …
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ISC is urging BIND users to upgrade their production DNS servers immediately. ISC recently announced a patch to fix an exploit in BIND. This exploit is in the wild and has been used to crash BIND servers resulting in a denial of service. Using a specially crafted dynamic update packet …
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I use VirtualBox to run a Microsoft Windows guest
on my iMac. For some reason, VirtualBox did not notify me that version 3.0 had
been released. This new version includes symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for
guest systems, Direct3D 8 and 9 for Windows guests, and OpenGL support for Windows,
Linux …
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The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.0.12 today. In addition to several critical security fixes, this update includes a couple of fixes that improve performance in Mac OS X. Specifically, these fixes address storage problems in <acronym title="Apple Filing Protocol">AFP</acronym> mounted directories and AppleScripts failing to …
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The Mozilla Project released version 3.5.1 of their Firefox web browser today. Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system will rejoice to hear that the long loading times plaguing version 3.5 have been addressed. Additionally, one critical security fix (MFSA 2009-41) has been applied. By now, your …
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