Networking Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

LogMeIn to Mac users: No Hamachi² for you!

by Steven Sande (Sep 11th, 2009)

I'm not a fan of setting up Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In fact, I've had so many issues with VPNs in the past that I now subcontract that work to a fellow geek who seems to have a knack for understanding the various settings. That's why I have been following Hamachi with great interest for the ...

Try Bonjour on your PC for using Mac printers

by Mel Martin (Jul 26th, 2009)

It's not a hidden secret, but lots of people simply don't know about it. We mentioned it ourselves more than a year ago in answer to a reader question, but I think it's worth a revisit. Here's my scenario. People show up at the house with PC laptops and want to print something. A boarding pass, an ...

Scoreloop introduces Scoreloop Community for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2009)

We've talked about OpenFeint quite a few times on the site before (and even interviewed the creators), but while they're definitely one of the biggest names in creating gaming communities for the iPhone, they're not alone. A company called Scoreloop has today announced a service called "Scoreloop ...

Staying Safe: securing your wireless connection

by Michael Jones (Jul 1st, 2009)

Recently, we reported on AT&T's push to make it easier for iPhone & iPod touch users to connect to their Wi-Fi Hot Spots. One of our readers, Jamie Phelps, pointed out on his blog that AT&T's Wi-Fi service is not actually a "secure connection," as is advertised in various places on their ...

OpenFeint 2.0 brings social discovery to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2009)

The Aurora Feint folks are at WWDC with the rest of the Mac development world this week, and while out there, not only are they having a party, but they sent out an announcement: OpenFeint 2.0 is out now, and it has some "social discovery" features now included. Their open platform already supported ...

Time Capsule backs up your Macs

by Mike Schramm (Jan 15th, 2008)

Apple has released Time Capsule, a NAS (network-attached storage, I'll admit I'm so far from an IT guy that I had to look it up) unit that will wirelessly sync with multiple instances of Time Machine, all the while also working as an 802.11n base station (there are three included ethernet ports as ...

Seven cool features of Leopard that might get stubborn friends to upgrade

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 16th, 2007)

There are dozens of little niceties in Leopard: like how Front Row now lives on my iBook (sans remote) and allows me to operate the thing as a sort of thin-client media jukebox (courtesy a Mac mini server). Or how Font Book now prints books of your fonts (especially nice for those non-techies). With ...

Little Snitch updated to 2.0, Leopard compatible

by Mike Schramm (Nov 9th, 2007)

Macworld brings news that everyone's favorite tattletale, Little Snitch, has been updated to version 2.0. The new version brings a whole host of updates, including a new Network Monitor, which will let you know about all outgoing and incoming network traffic. There's also support for IPV6, and a ...

Network Magic: Simplify Mac and PC networking

by David Chartier (Aug 28th, 2007)

The Mac and PC networking challenge is legendary. If you have both on a home or work network, it can be an adventure to get these two machines to see each other, share files or printers. Fortunately, Pure Networks has an app for both Mac and PC called Network Magic which hopes to change all that, ...

Battlefleet, a game for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 14th, 2007)

It's not quite a native iPhone game, but it's one of the best games I've seen for the iPhone yet-- Roger sent us his version of Battleship (which is actually a pen and paper game that predates Milton Bradley's version-- I did not know that), called Battlefleet. It's super easy to play, and turns out ...

Bonjour for Windows 1.0.4 released

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2007)

Apple has released a new version of Bonjour for Windows, 1.0.4, just in case you're zero-configuration networking with any Windows PCs in the area. There's no changelog available, but this version dropped as a preview onto the ADC page last month, and apparently "includes Windows Vista support and ...

Chemicalburn: a transportation network-simulating screensaver

by Mike Schramm (Jul 16th, 2007)

So this past weekend I realized that I still had the great Skyrocket screensaver on my Powerbook from the Fourth of July-- no, not this year's. Last year's. It was time to get a new screensaver. Fortunately, FreeMacWare was featuring Chemicalburn, a screensaver by Michael Ash (who also created ...

Swift Share, Mac/PC file sharing utility, on 55% sale at MacZOT today only

by David Chartier (Jun 22nd, 2007)

Swift Share is a utility for creating and managing folders to share for both Mac OS X and Windows based machines across your network and even in remote locations. While Mac OS X allows for some limited file/folder sharing functionality via the Sharing System Preferences pane, plenty of users out ...

TUAW Video: LANrev demo at WWDC

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 13th, 2007)

Click To Play Scott sat down with Martin Bestmann of LANrev to talk about their powerful cross-platform client management application and got a sneak peek at what's coming in the next version. ...

Airport Extreme Base Station Update

by Erica Sadun (Apr 11th, 2007)

Apple has just released a new update for AirPort Extreme base stations. The update includes general fixes, security improvements and addresses compatibility for the 802.11n base station. To install this update, you'll need AirPort Utility 5.1 for Mac or Windows. The first security concerns seem to ...