Vocito desktop dialer released for GrandCentral beta
Google has released Vocito, a desktop quick-dialer for its GrandCentral beta. The app simultaneously dials a remote phone and a local phone, connecting them together. Vocito also integrates with Address Book, QuickSilver, Automator and system services, and supports "tel" URLs and AppleScript. Scripting allows functions to be tied to the condition of other apps; iCal, for example, can be set to di...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Microsoft to port Live Mesh sync for Macs
Microsoft is in the middle of developing a Mac port of its Live Mesh sync technology, the company has announced. The technology is similar in concept to Apple's MobileMe, but focuses on syncing files, instead of calendars and contacts, with a remote Microsoft cloud server; this is done simply by selecting "Add to My Mesh" from a right-click menu, which uploads a file to Live Desktop and pushes it...
published on Thursday, the 30. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Completely uninstall Apple Remote Desktop Admin
Here at my work, we have a very large and managed Macintosh environment -- 6,000 MacBooks, 30+ Xserves, and 1,000+ Mac desktops, all in an Open Directory environment. As such, Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) Admin is a very widely-used application for myself and my coworkers. When it works, it is awesome, but over the last year and a half at this deployment, a lot of us have randomly seen ARD Admin fail, for a lack of a better term. Symptoms are constant crashes, hangs when launching, not scanning through certain subnets or VLANs, and it won't connect to certain computers on your network. The way I have seen it happen is at first it becomes sluggish, and the application performs slow, then it goes into crashing and not working down the road. You try to reinstall the application and it gets you nowhere. In the past, my coworkers have just wiped and reloaded OS X to fix this issue, which is kind of an unacceptable solution in my mind. Just this morning I got hit with the same issu...
published on Tuesday, the 21. October 2008, macosxhints
10.5: See Time Machine GUI on a headless Mac over ARD
When attempting to access Time Machine on a headless Mac over Apple Remote Desktop, a common complaint is that the GUI (graphical user interface) does not appear, though it does function if you guess where the buttons are. This is especially problematic when running on a Mac Mini.To force the screen to redraw, just drag any file/folder from your local desktop into the Remote Desktop window, as if you were copying the file to the remote machine. You don't have to release the icon, but the screen should redraw with the Time Machine controls now visible and functional. Not all of the visual effects work, but you can browse past archives and perform restores with ease.
published on Wednesday, the 15. October 2008, macosxhints
DealNN: Mac Pro, iPod docks, hard drives
Today's DealNN deals include a selection of Mac desktops, iPod docks and hard drives. The Apple store is currently offering the refurbished 3.0GHz Mac Pro for $3099, which is $500 off the original price of $3599. Two iPod docks are featured: the Onkyo remote interactive dock is priced at $79.99 marked down from $99.99 and the JBL radial micro has been reduced to $99.98 from $149.99. PCconnectio...
published on Friday, the 10. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple Remote Desktop gets security, command fixes
This week, Apple released an update to Apple Remote Desktop. The new version 3.2.2 includes updates and fixes to a few commands, as well as a security fix related to the Open Scripting Architecture libraries.Read More...
published on Thursday, the 18. September 2008, ars-technica
Remote Desktop, Server Admin Tools fixes, more
Apple on Tuesday offered new updates to Remote Desktop and its Server Admin tools. Apple Remote Desktop 3.2.2 Client and Admin both offer improved reliability when copying items, unicast packets when upgrading client software, and fixes to the Automator actions Force Quit All Applications and Copy Items to Computer. The updates also resolve a vulnerability that allowed local users to execute comma...
published on Tuesday, the 16. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Use Apple Remote Desktop for OS X Server install
You can use Apple Remote Desktop to connect to a machine that is booted from the O X 10.5 server installation disk by typing the first eight characters of the computer's serial number into the password field while leaving the user name field blank. [robg adds: I haven't tested this one, and I don't know if it works with the Client installation disk as well.]
published on Tuesday, the 26. August 2008, macosxhints
Unpatched Flaw In Apple Remote Desktop Brings About Trojans & Community Fixes
Much ado has been made this week regarding the recent Apple Remote Desktop Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. The short story is that there is a flaw in a piece of software that Apple ships & installs with every Leopard instance which enables a local user to run scripts with root privileges (meaning they can do [...]
published on Tuesday, the 24. June 2008, apple-blog
Flaw in Apple Remote Desktop exploited via trojan
A verified Mac trojan is circulating on the Internet, exploiting a rather egregious flaw in a component of Apple Remote Desktop. There are ways to avoid being infected, however.Read More...
published on Friday, the 20. June 2008, ars-technica