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Western Digital shows off a Thunderbolt hard drive at Macworld | iWorld 2012

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2012)

Hard drive storage company Western Digital was in attendance at Macworld | iWorld 2012 last week showing off its MyBook Thunderbolt Duo setup. The unit is a two-drive box that can hook up to your Mac through the Thunderbolt port, and it's Western Digital's first entry into the protocol. As you ...

Prevent iTunes web previews from opening iTunes automatically

by TJ Luoma (Mar 25th, 2010)

Ever since Apple rolled out web previews for iTunes links several months ago, I've been meaning to find a way to disable those pages from automatically opening iTunes, which I don't usually have running. <del>These pages have a "View in iTunes" link already, so if I want to open iTunes, ...

More minor security flaws in Mac OS X

by David Chartier (Apr 22nd, 2006)

Security-Protocols has discovered a few more minor security issues in Mac OS X that mainly pertain to how the OS and a few of its apps handle images and opening zip archives. From a quick glance through the listed errors, they pretty much amount to crashing an app, though a couple of the Safari ...

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