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New & Noteworthy: OS X Utilities; Laptop secuirty; Flash;

New & Noteworthy: OS X Utilities; Laptop secuirty; Flash;

CNET staff
2 min read
4-Port USB-Audio Hub; more

OS X Utilities Download Library page updated We added a collection of new utilities to our Mac OS X Utilities page of our Download Library. It's a list of our favorite OS X utilities. Check it out. And if you have a favorite you would like us to consider adding, let us know.

Making Sure Your Laptop Won't Stray David Pogue offers advice on how to pevent laptops, such as iBooks and PowerBooks, from being stolen - and getting them back if one is stolen. Note: The Caveo card, mentioned in the article, does not work with Macs.

Macromedia Flash MX is an authoring system for vector based web media. Allows you to "create rich Internet content and applications."

Group Organizer Server 4.0.3 is Chronos' first Cocoa product for Mac OS X. "It has been re-written from the ground up and makes use of native Unix sockets for TCP/IP networking. The new networking infrastructure combined with Cocoa’s pre-emptive threading architecture takes Group Organizer Server to the next level."

Griffin releases 4-Port USB-Audio Hub and the ClearChoice iPod Connection Kit Griffin Technology has released the first USB hub fully compatible with USB Audio recording and playback. Also today, Griffin debuts its new line of audio cables and adaptors called ClearChoice. These audio cables are specifically designed to integrate with your iPod and new iMac computer.

WebSTAR makes its case WebSTAR has posted a PDF file "white paper" that compares WebSTAR 5.1 to other servers, such as Apache.

Replacement TiBook "display cushions" available See this page for details.

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