Archive for October, 2007

Mac OS X 10.5: Security Hint 1 – Guest Account

Now that Mac OS X has almost been out for a week, there are a lot of articles coming out concerning the security features and their effectiveness, or lack thereof:

OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed
Do not go Back to My Mac
Leopard with chinks in its armor
A Roundup of Leopard Security Features

Some people are pointing out some [...]

Mac OS X 10.5, Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard is here

So I have spent the last several days playing with the latest release of Mac OS X 10.5 codenamed Leopard.
Over the next few weeks I will be posting new articles relating to some steps I have found that may make your switch more enjoyable.

Mac OS X 10.5, Operating Systems

Customizing the Client Episode IV “Table Formats”

Up to this point most of the client customization I have talked about for Adobe Contribute involved changes that affected only the user interface. Outside of the custom plugin, none of them had any real effect on the usefulness of the client itself.
This customization is different, and like the addition of the Dublin Core [...]

Adobe Contribute, Software

Customizing the Client Episode III “Task Panel”

In this article I will briefly discuss the customization of the Task Panel.
On the Welcome Page, in the bottom left is a nice section entitled How Do I… that contains handy information on how to accomplish a whole slew of tasks in Contribute.
What I found during my research into customizing the client is that this [...]

Adobe Contribute, Software

Customizing the Client Episode II “Dynamic Pages”

In my last post about customizing the Contribute Client I talked about customizing the Welcome Page.
Well, if you recall, I mentioned that the Welcome Page is built on the fly from a Dreamweaver template. More than just this one page is built this way. Each of the special, dynamic pages are built in [...]

Adobe Contribute, Software