January

Apr 27 2009

Server Style

If you haven’t established your personal homestead on the Internet, it’s time. This week we’ll look at a free offer and some free server software that will furnish you with a first class home on the web.

1&1′s Free Hosting Promotion

One of the best real estate deals you’ll ever see on the Internet. 1&1 is offering a 500 MB site with support for CGI, PHP, MySQL and more. Not only is this 3 year deal real, it’s also coming to a close on January 21 so don’t think about it too long.

GoDaddy.com

This part isn’t free, but you’ll find GoDaddy as good as it gets for buying a domain. .com and .org domains start at with free forwarding, masking and email forwarding.

MovableType

This blog solution is Ben and Mena’s gem, and one of the best site management systems you can find. And, if you can install it yourself, it’s free. Manage your own blog, or tweak the system to fit your custom needs.

phpMyAdmin

If you score a site on 1&1 you’ll get a MySQL database. phpMyAdmin lets you peer into the inner-workings of you database to run queries or troubleshoot data. It’s easy enough to install and free.

We’ve only looked at a few of many great free server applications, but this ought to be enough to get you going. Have fun!

Brian

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Jan 23 2009

The latest Mac Trojan can be avoided by not pirating software

eviliwork 20090122 210137 The latest Mac Trojan can be avoided by not pirating softwareAn Intego Security Alert warns of a new exploit to threaten the tranquility of the Mac universe: OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Trojan Horse.

The new Trojan Horse is currently hidden in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork ’09 available via various BitTorrent tracker sites. While the software is complete and functional, the installer contains a “bonus” called iWorkServices.pkg. This software is installed as a startup item where it has read-write-execute permissions for root: in other words, it has all the powers of a system administrator. This malicious software connects to a remote server over the internet, alerts its maker that it has been installed and gives this person the ability to connect to the affected Mac remotely.

Given that this alert came from Intego, it is no surprise that their software, VirusBarrier X4 and X5, will protect you against this Trojan horse as long as your virus definitions are dated January 22, 2009 or later. Meanwhile, over at SecureMac, they have made a free and handy iWorkServices Trojan Removal Tool that will… well… remove the Trojan for you.

I should mention that the preferred method of dealing with this Trojan is avoidance: go buy iWork ’09 The latest Mac Trojan can be avoided by not pirating software legitimately!!

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Dec 31 2008

MacMerc.TV– SuperDuper!

Have you made your New Years resolutions for 2009 yet? Is it too late for me to suggest that you add “back up” to the list?

In this edition of MacMerc.TV, I take a look at Shirt Pocket Software’s backup utility, SuperDuper!, and show you why you’d want to use it instead of or, better yet, in addition to Mac OS X 10.5′s Time Machine.
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If you have ideas (software you’d like featured or tech concepts you’d like explained) for future episodes of MacMerc.TV, send me an email.

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