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Smarter Parental Controls

If you've been using the parental controls options in Mac OS X to lock your child out of using a particular computer late at night, but would like to employ a more clever technique to limit Internet access, turn to MAC address filtering on an Apple base station.

To do this, launch AirPort Utility, select your base station, and click Manual Setup. In the Access Control view, choose Time Access to turn on MAC filtering. You'll need to enter the MAC address of the particular computer, which (in 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) you can find in the Network System Preferences pane: click AirPort in the adapter list, and click Advanced. The AirPort ID is the MAC address.

 
 

SpellCatcher X 10.3.7

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Bad spellers, untie! Rainmaker has released SpellCatcher X 10.3.7, a minor update that adds a few minor features, along with a few minor fixes. The software now includes a Quick Look generator, which can create previews of various SpellCatcher documents. Soft hyphen characters are handled better when spell checking, and the software now behaves better with Google Chrome. Also fixed are a potential crash and a problem with shortcuts imported from TypeIt4Me and TextExpander. ($39.95 new, free update, 21.4 MB)

 

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Comments about SpellCatcher X 10.3.7

Eileen  2010-12-30 13:03
Don't you mean UNITE? This is hilarious for a spellcheck ad :)
Jeff Carlson  An apple icon for a TidBITS Staffer 2010-12-30 13:31
That was deliberate. :)

(Also, that's not an ad, just an announcement of new software.)
Eileen  2010-12-30 18:01
Sorry - it just made me giggle and turns out the joke's on me :)
I've been using Spell Catcher since the OS/9 days. It is superb and offers most features of TextExpander. A winner!!!

Try it, I'll bet you will like it.