A parody to save the XServe

MCE Tech : Optibay SSD available for all XServe, G4, G5 and Intel

A great news for Mac administrators : MCE Technologies is now selling its Optibay kit, replacing the combo or superdrive from your XServe G4, G5 or Intel with a SSD drive. MCE has been very reactive : one week of discussion and testing. The product is available for ordering on their store. Thanks Arnie.

CBGFilms.com : VigiMac, A Non-Intrusive Tracker For Your Mac

Thanks Charlie! “Today I got a new tracker for my Mac called VigiMac, its quite interesting, so I thought I’d share it with you guys! Just go to vigimac.com and follow the necessary steps to setup your mac, then if your mac ever gets stolen you can log-on to the vigimac website and enable tracking, [...]

VigiMac users in the world

Since it has been launched, more than 1400 Mac users have installed VigiMac to protect their computer for free. So I have tried to give you a view of the last 300 registered Mac in the world with this Google Map. A big thank to you, especially if you’ve done a little donation

Madhatt.com : How to protect your Mac from theft

Some news about VigiMac

Launched on April 24, 2008, VigiMac receives signs of life of all your Mac every 3mn. This traffic represents more than 4.5 million web requests for the month of July. Today, more than 830 Mac in the world have been registered on VigiMac.com. – 2400 downloads on Versiontracker : if you have installed VigiMac without [...]

ARDAgent security hole with MacOS X 10.5.4

A security hole has been recently discovered, relayed by all websites of the Mac community. This vulnerability with the ARDAgent program gives access to the root superuser with a simple Applescript command : $ osascript -e ‘tell app “ARDAgent” to do shell script “whoami”‘ root If it does not always work with MacOS X 10.5.3 [...]

Firmware password : the best complement for VigiMac

Our first advice to improve VigiMac : setting up a firmware password. Defined with administrator privileges, this password is the best low-level protection for your Mac. It avoids : – your hard disk to be formatted, – your Mac to be started up in target disc mode, from another disc, or another partition. You’ll find [...]

Track Your Mac, a new great feature on Vigimac.com

It is now possible to track it yourself on Vigimac.com to check your installation and to declare a stolen Mac. This new tool completes our anti-theft protection. Try it now.

Softpedia recommended Mac apps of the week

While some of you probably live by the saying “it’ll never happen to me,” take into account that one of your so-called friends is maybe (just maybe) eyeing your superb, 20-inch Aluminum iMac, or the MacBook Pro that you like to show off whenever you get the chance. But say you have but the best [...]