Tucan Manager: download manager simple and effective for all operating systems
Tucan Manager Download Manager
Today I will discuss a download manager that, by its simplicity and effectiveness has left me fascinated. I'm talking about Tucan Manager, which has been developed especially for maintaining orderly discharge, and that is evident as we begin to use it.
Evidently the Tucan has not discovered the powder to provide such services, since there are already thousands of programs that can create and automate queue of files to be uploaded or downloaded from servers such as RapidShare, Mediafire, Megaupload, just to name a few . However, it has certain features that ultimately raise the profile of this nice program. To begin, I will say that the application has versions for both Linux and Windows and Mac, and performs his work without having to rely on virtual machines (Java) or runtimes (. NET).
As I said, what interested me most is his rapidiez the Toucan and how easy it is for the user to use.
At the same time, we offer a uniquely-effective ability to save us the trouble of typing captchas required to access the files on some sites like Megaupload.
In closing, I again emphasize that this free application called Tucan Manager can be used on both Mac OS X, and Linux and Windows.
iCreate, the magazine for maqueros
iCreate, comes the definitive publication for Mac lovers
Lately I've seen a phenomenon of tribalism that fascinates me: the maqueros. People with MacBooks, iPhones, iPods or-what is now the star-Cases are replicated all over the world. There's something about the apple that achieves fanatizar who try any of their products. And for this growing number of "maqueros" now bring you news that will cause excessive salivation: iCreate comes the definitive magazine on the Apple universe.
How will the publication? First of all, it is clear that the magazine will be entirely in Castilian, a fact which shows a great difference compared to other offerings in the publishing world.
That is, do not you will depend on foreign editions written in another language to find out the last of the universe Maquera. ICreate came to fill that space. Read more
Snow Leopard is now available
The new version of the operating system of Apple machines is now available in stores. In this version there are no major developments in the operation of applications or the interface but the efforts have focused on improving system performance dramatically.
A new version of QuickTime, an entirely rewritten in Cocoa Finder or compatibility with Microsoft Exchange servers are some of the novelty of this new version. As a counterpoint to the new features included support for PowerPC computers disappears, leaving the transition to Intel is complete.
Price is one of the things that has surprised users at this time only have to pay € 29 to upgrade to the new version.
More information on the Apple website: http://www.apple.com/es/macosx/
MonoTouch on your iPhone
The Mono 2.6 release is expected in November, the current 2.4.2.x series has been included in the distributions Canonical why not to include these packages? Read more
New in August
OpenSuSE 11.2 M5 (including KDE 4.3 Caizen)
Suse Studio 1.0 (subscription / invitation)
Mac OSX 10.5.8 (now I finally upgrade before 10.6 Snow Leopard)
Slackware 13.0 RC2-current (32 and 64 bit)
0.4.1 Hellenes (microkernel and system support multiple processors)
Apple to launch Snow Leopard in September
At its developer conference, Apple has set the release date of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It will be in September 2009.
As he knew the reason for Snow Leopard will mainly refine the current system and optimize it for Apple 64-bit processors from Intel. It has improved 90% MacOS X software making it faster, highlighting a Safari Javascript engine speed has improved by 50%.
This specific optimization for Intel 64 will also save space because once installed save up 6GB of space used.
Source: faq-mac.com
Beware Apple security
The low use operating systems always have the trump card of being able to claim insurance systems, as to whether or not to resist any attack, do not capture the attention of the creators of malicious software.
Mac OS X software is not exactly a low utilization, but for now has been far more profitable to look for problems in Windows crackers. But Apple's system over the past five years has tripled its market share, now touching 10% worldwide, so it is becoming a juicy dish for creators of malware . Is this a real problem for MacOS?
Charlie Miller , an expert in looking for security problems in MacOS, commented recently that the main problem was that the system randomly allocates memory to applications, so you can access the data in memory. A problem that seems to be resolved in Snow Leopard. In any case, the traditional strength of Unix systems derived from the virus may no longer be enough to other types of malware . Will Apple live up to solving such problems?
Security Issues in Mac OS X
In Boston, the conference SOURCE, Dino Dai Zovi has made a demonstration on how to break the security of Apple's operating system. To make the show has used the data memory (HEAP Memory) is not sufficiently protected in order to perform the attack. This problem is currently produced in Leopard but it is anticipated that in the next version, Snow Leopard, will be resolved as data memory will be random.
So far Mac OS X is considered one of the most secure systems on the market. However this finding may be that serious attacks appear to Mac OS X.
Curiously the iPhone OS is not vulnerable to the problem described above.
More details in faq-mac-com .
Interface enhancements in Snow Leopard
Mac OS X has always been known for being quite innovative in matters relating to the user interface. The dock, the font anti-aliasing on the desktop, create a human interface guidelines (rules that define how applications should behave) and Exposé are some examples of the different technologies that Apple pioneered admitted into its system.
Snow Leopard looks set to bring some news regarding that aspect. An example is the controversial new interface of Safari 4 that was subject to criticism but we must recognize that includes innovative elements like Coverflow enough to display the history or the tab bar at the top (very inspired by Chrome, it must say).
Also the version of QuickTime to bring Snow Leopard will make various changes to the interface since, as we discover in AppleInsider , are going to remove the controls. That is, when you open a movie the only thing displayed is the movie and only in passing the mouse over the player controls appear (similar to what happens in many players but in maximizing the window).
As you near the time of the premiere of the new system (to be defined), we get to know in detail all changes that Apple plans regarding Snow Leopard interface and if the innovations introduced in Safari or QuickTime will be applied to other components the system.
Airport Wi-Fi problems in iMac solved
IMac computer users had a serious problem with the wifi connection due to a failure Airport, the program that manages connections. It is an update (5.4.1) for Mac OS X 10.5.6, and it solves the problems with roaming and network selection wifi.
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