http://www.maclive.net Mac news, editorials, and video en-us Copyright 2006 Maclive.net http://backend.userland.com/rss/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:08:22 CST http://www.maclive.net/images/maclive_logo.jpg http://www.maclive.net This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. I was writing an email early this morning and made a mistake.  In the middle of typing a word I accidentally struck the Command+. keys (Apple+Period).  To my surprise, Apple Mail displayed a drop down list of possible completions for the word I had half entered... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/177704964/242 smanke@maclive.net Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:10:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/242 As the countdown to Leopard's release continues, I continue to flip through the documentation recently released by Apple Inc.  In an interesting step forward in the evolution of the Mac OS, Apple engineers have added screen sharing to the list of features introduced in 10.5... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/171635022/241 smanke@maclive.net Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:10:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/241 It has taken a long, long time, but folder sharing has returned to the Mac OS.  Back in the olden days, OS 9 and before, it was possible to share just about any folder in the filesystem.  That sharing functionality simply made a folders data available to network users and allowed them permission based access to the date remotely.  When Apple transitioned to the much more "robust" OS X, this feature was left by the wayside... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/171142730/240 smanke@maclive.net Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:10:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/240 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/170209457/239 smanke@maclive.net Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:10:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/239 One of the .Mac features announced as part of the upcoming release of OSX 10.5 is something that might finally take the sting out of the yearly .Mac charge.  Apple calls the feature “Back to My Mac.”  It promises users the ability to access data on any of their Macs from anywhere on the web at any time.  It sounds ideal and it sounds like something the average Mac power user could really use. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/135430297/238 smanke@maclive.net Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:07:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/238 Last month we posted a story explaining how to share files between Macs and Windows based PCs.  Since that time, we’ve received a lot of mail from users who would like to know how to either disable their computer’s firewall, or add a rule to it so they can allow specific types of traffic.  Since different people have different needs when it comes to allowing traffic through the firewall, we’ll take a look at the rules necessary to allow file sharing between Macs and PCs... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Maclive/~3/122455736/237 smanke@maclive.net Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:06:00 CST http://www.maclive.net/sid/237 http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Maclive