• cloud,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment,  MobileMe

    iWork Public Beta Goes Bye-Bye Today :: Last Call

    I’m sure you’ve heard by now. But just in case you hadn’t logged into iWork.com in awhile or let the to-do lapse, it’s just worth a reminder that iWork Public Beta, the site that you could upload Pages, Numbers and Keynotes to, is being deprecated. The end comes on today. In other words, if you have documents up on the site, you should download them immediately or you won’t be able to come August. Apple has even provided a document explaining how. The service that was being provided by the iWork public beta is replaced by iCloud. Using iCloud, you can sync your documents between all of your devices. When…

  • Mac Security

    iWork or Trojan

    Ninja’s don’t often get trojans, but pirates of Mac software just might… According to an article on MacRumors, there is a pirated copy of iWork 09 floating around torrent-land that has a trojan in it. Apparently it creates /usr/bin/iWorkServices and then puts it in /System/Library/StartupItems. Now, in order to place the files in such a way it’s going to obviously need the user to enter a root password. But then, a regular installer would ask a user to do this too. The trojan has been named OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. Supposedly over 20,000 users have downloaded the infected files from the torrents, but at this time, I am unable to find one to…

  • Mac OS X

    Documentation on the Mac

    Starting to warm up to Pages.  Especially since I figured out that if you click on am image and then click on the inspector that you can set the image to Inline, which makes it where it doesn’t move as you type more text.  Very nice.  Will save much time.

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    iWork/iLife Documents 2008 and Retrospect

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal iWork ‘08 applications (Keynote, Numbers, Pages) and iLife ‘08 components including iPhoto, iTunes, Garage Band have a slight issue with Retrospect – their data files are not considered documents using the Documents Selector. Now in the case of iPhoto, iTunes and Garage Band this is probably a good thing. However, for Keynote, Numbers and Pages it’s more than likely that if you’re using these then you will want Retrospect to back them up. So if you are using selectors and you are using the Documents selector then check out this Knowledgebase article from EMC/Dantz: http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=9632&r=0.2114527