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Filed under: Peripherals, Security

Secure your Mac: Eikon biometric security

by Mat Lu on Sep 25th 2007 at 5:00PM

TUAW has lately been trying to help you Secure Your Mac, and while a few options have been available, biometric security is one area in which the Mac has seemed to lag behind the Windows side. Now UPEK has released a preview of the Mac version of their Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The software allows you to use the Eikon scanner to login to your account, control your Keychain, switch users, or lock down your Mac.

The Eikon scanner is a USB device which costs about $40 and only comes with Windows software. Once you have the scanner however, you can download the Mac Protector Suite Preview for free from UPEK. If security is a serious concern and passwords are getting tedious then a biometric solution like this one looks increasingly cost effective.

[via OhGizmo]

Tags: biometric, fingerprint, keychain, password, Secure Your mac, SecureYourMac, security

Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and ends

First hand pictures of the new U2 iPod

by Conrad Quilty-Harper on Jun 7th 2006 at 1:00PM

Ash over at techpaedia dropped us a line to let us know about some photos he took of the new U2 iPod at an Apple retail store. The four photos over at his site show the rear black metal enclosure a little more clearly than the official ones on Apple's site.

Ash reports that "like the traditional stainless steel mirrored finish enclosure, it is a fingerprint magnet." We'd also have to assume that it scratches as easily as the reflective mirror finish on most other iPods too.

Now that Apple has created a completely black bodied iPod, how long do you think it'll be until they start bundling black accessories with its black products? Or will we just have to live with it, just like we've been living with the fingerprint and scratch magnet "feature" present on practically every iPod?

Tags: 5G iPod, 5gIpod, Accessories, Black, Fingerprint, iPod, MacBook, Scratch, U2, U2 iPod, U2Ipod

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