£100 off a new Mac

RecycleI have just received an email from Stormfront, they are an authorised premium reseller of Apple products.  Currently they are offering £100 off a new Mac when you trade in your old machine regardless of the manufacturer, most people have an old PC/laptop knocking around that is never use.  This does not apply to iOS devices, in the terms and conditions it says 

"£100 offer applies to Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac. Offer does not include purchases of the Mac mini"

So although the offer is quite limited, it maybe worth visiting http://www.stormfront.co.uk to check if there is a store near you if you are thinking of getting a new laptop.

I am always interested in your thoughts so if you have any comments or feedback then please feel free to add any comments, or you can mail me  here.

Send to Kindle

Send To KindleI have just installed this application on both my Mac and my Windows laptop.  It's a great way to get your own documents etc onto your kindle device, or in my case the kindle application on the iPad.

It's incredibly simple to use, on the windows side you just select your file or files, then right click and select "Send to Kindle".  You also can use the print dialog box, all you need to so is select the printer "Send to Kindle"

On the Mac version you can open the applications and drag your files into it or just drag the files to the dock icon.  Also on the Mac side you have the option to use select the printer "Send to Kindle" from the print dialog box.

So now you can store your documents in evernote and/or you can keep them on your kindle, you can just scan to pdf and send it away.

You can download the application from the following link from Amazon : Send-to-Kindle.

Mac Application - Send To Kindle

I am always interested in your thoughts so if you have any comments or feedback then please feel free to add any comments, or you can mail me  here. 

Flashback Trojan

This post is a bit later than planned due to my recent arrival, but I still thought I would post it out there.  There has been a bit a press recently about the Flashback Trojan on many Macs.

Originally the piece I had read on the register was claiming there are as many as 550,000 infected machines.

The best article I saw on the detecting and removing the trojan was on F-Secure.

Initially if you run the commands you can see below, if you get the same output then you are not infected by the Trojan.  

Macintosh-3:~ craigdba$ defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

2012-04-05 19:26:16.700 defaults[25533:707] 

The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist

Macintosh-3:~ craigdba$ defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

2012-04-05 19:27:24.648 defaults[25535:707] 

The domain/default pair of (/Users/craigdba/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist 

If you do get replies then you will want to read the article in the link from F-Secure, or apply the latest software updates from Apple which does contain a Java security update.  Apple has said in the text that it is for the Trojan, plus today I see an article on The Register which now says the number of machines has dropped to 270,000.

I am always interested in your thoughts so if you have any comments or feedback then please feel free to add any comments, or you can mail me  here. 

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