List of keyboard shortcuts for the Mac:

I have Apache with SSL installed using Fink. Every time I try to upgrade to a new release via ‘fink update-all’ Fink gives me an error about conflicts with the installed DB library and the new one it wants to install. This is because Fink picks the wrong upgrade package - the non-SSL one rather than the SSL version which I am using. This is easy to fix - just ‘fink install apache-ssl...’ by hand. But I keep forgetting - so here it is so that Google can remind me next time.

Bill Thompson of the BBC’s Go Digital blogged recently that Macs are just as vunerable as PCs to security issues. It generated quite some feedback. Well, he’s right. I just discovered a virus on our Macs. The virus we had was in MS Word documents - this is a MS Office feature taking advantage of Visual Basic for Applications rather than a Mac OS X issue. However, if you exchange Word documents (or any MS Office file on any platform) you really should be scanning before opening. We used to have Virex installed on our Macs but…

Flip4Mac have released Windows Media components for QuickTime. This as MS announces the end of support for Windows Media Player on the Mac (an oxymoron if there ever was one). Given the plugin extensible architecture of QuickTime this is how it should have been done from the beginning.

One more thing...Steve Jobs gives a good keynote and now thanks to The Joy of Technology you can see how its done.

There are some useful Airport tools available from Apple that you may not know about. I’ve no idea why these are not included as standard with Airport products. Anyway, they are called the Client Monitor and the Management Utility. The Client Monitor shows a graph of signal to noise and data rate for your wireless signal. This tool could be useful if you are trying out antenna positions. The Management Utility gives an overview of all Airports within range and shows the settings and activity log as a list. This is useful if you are administrating many Airports. Available…

Apple are not above the same tricks as the rest of the software industry. You want QuickTime for Windows so you head over to Apple’s QuickTime page. However, if you’re using a browser on Windows and you follow the download link on Apple’s QuickTime page you can only download QuickTime and the wretched iTunes for Windoze. Does this remind you of anything? There is a standalone download page but Apple does not link to it. Google knows all.

Cringely has more thoughts on Apple/Intel...movies.

Cringely has an interesting update on the whole Apple/Intel thing and the analogy with Osborne. Worth looking at these things again now the smoke has cleared.

Is this the dumbest dialog box in the world? Its been with us for so long and apparently is still in the Tiger.