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Apple Adds 2TB Time Capsule, Now Available

Written on July 30, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 8 people have commented

Without much fanfare, and over a day later than it usually announces products, Apple has released a new version of its integrated network storage/Wi-Fi router today.
The new Time Capsule sports an industry pace-keeping 2TB of hard drive space, and can be yours for a mere $499. Not bad, considering your average external USB 2TB drive [...]

Software Updates Explain Dual-Band Networking

Written on March 03, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 8 people have commented

Along with all the hardware updates, Apple has released a few software updates as well.

AirPort Client Update 2009-001
AirPort Utility 5.4.1
AirPort Utility 5.4.1 Windows

The Airport Client and Airport Utility Updates add support for the latest Airport Extreme and Time Capsule models announced earlier today and provide some further details about how dual-band networking will be implemented. [...]

Managing Your Social Life With EventBox

Written on November 13, 2008 by David Appleyard and 12 people have commented

EventBox is an application created by The Cosmic Machine, which aims to provide one place from which to manage all your online social networking activity. It can ‘pack all your social networks in one box’.
I think that an application performing the function that EventBox aims to could certainly be very useful. There are a host [...]

Mac 101: Sharing Files Between Two Macs

Written on September 26, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 9 people have commented

One of the reasons I like Mac’s so much more than Window’s boxes is their outstanding networking capabilities. No matter if I need to add a network printer or share files with someone on my network, it can be done in a matter of minutes.
Setting up two Macs to network and share files can be [...]

Remote Denial of Service For OS X (Leopard)

Written on February 27, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 4 people have commented

Given the large amount of “feedback” I receive from many venues on why I’m crazy for suggesting that OS X users employ some type of client-side security software, I wanted to point out a very recent exploit that I saw over at Joel Esler’s blog. The vulnerability is around the IPv6 networking layer of the [...]

Monitor ARP Traffic on OS X with ArpSpyX

Written on January 12, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 5 people have commented

ArpSpyX has just been updated to version 1.2 which adds full support for Intel Macs. If you’re not familiar with ArpSpyX you should give this utility at least a quick look if you care at all about the security or contents of your local network.
The program works by either monitoring ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) traffic [...]