Wired.com's Brian X. Chen reports on a potentially dangerous default Bluetooth setting found on Apple notebooks. The setting enables a Bluetooth device to wake a machine even if its lid is closed. For a user packing a MacBook and Bluetooth mouse into the same satchel, this default could result in an overheated disaster.
IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail can be a powerful combination, but all have certain idiosyncrasies that can test your patience. Joe Kissell offers an in-depth exploration of the three technologies and how to use them together optimally.
Apple has added around-the-clock text chat support for MobileMe, the sometimes-disgruntling collection of Internet services that replaced .Mac. To start a support chat, you must first choose a specific topic under the Get Help with Mobile Me section, after which a Chat Now button appears; clicking it starts a chat with an Apple tech support person.
Apple doesn't want to tell you about what has changed in the recent updates to iPhoto '09, but Adam has tracked down ten notable changes that will significantly improve your iPhoto experience.
If you've had an Xserve drive fail, you may have considered putting a replacement drive inside its Apple Drive Module to save some money. That may be a false economy, though, as Adam discovers when chasing down exactly what goes into Apple Drive Modules and why they cost so much more than bare retail drives.
The latest version of Leopard combined with a firmware update for AirPort base stations may fix a problem with Time Machine that led to corrupted backup disk images on Time Capsule drives.
Autofill, the iTunes feature previously available only for the iPod shuffle, is now available for all iPods that are set to manage music manually. Unfortunately, finding and using the Autofill feature can be a challenge. Michael Cohen takes you through the steps to track it down.
The latest version of the AirPort Utility may have problems reading configurations of existing Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station devices.
Thanks to a recently released application, OverDrive Media Console, I can now download MP3 audio books from my library. But who would want to? The selection is lousy and the procedure is inconvenient and silly. How silly is it? Read on...
Looking to take oodles of vacation photos without bringing a computer along for backups, or buying a slew of new memory cards? Oliver Habicht takes a look at Digital Foci's Photo Safe II, a handy tool for just such an occasion.
A recently discovered inconsistency in how different aspects of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard deal with opening files in the Trash, combined with an oversight by Time Machine, could result in data loss for unsuspecting users.
We're finally making the public announcement of our new TipBITS feature, which provides lots of staff- and reader-contributed tips throughout our Web site.
Although Seagate has yet to respond to our inquiries about how Mac users can update buggy firmware in a wide selection of buggy Seagate drives, Steve Maller reports that Seagate tech support walked him through building a CD that booted his Mac Pro into FreeDOS, after which he could run the firmware updater. PowerPC-based Macs and drives in external cases are still out in the cold.
Members of the BECU credit union can once again download transactions with Quicken 2007 for Mac and earlier.
Want to switch from Now Up-to-Date to iCal but scared about the amount of work in transferring all your existing events? Help is now at hand from the free NUD to iCal utility from BusyMac.