“Late on Friday, Macworld’s Jason Snell discovered that the new 4.1 version of virtualization tool VMware Fusion had a special talent. Up until 4.1, Fusion would refuse to install non-server versions of Snow Leopard and Leopard into a virtual machine, since Apple’s licensing for those OS builds did not include a virtualization option.”
Here’s a picture of Jim’s installation (click the picture to enlarge):
Snow Leopard in Lion!
Re: “Flash installer” trojans …
From MacFixIt (here):
Again, this malware is very rare and will not affect most Macs out there, but if you suspect one of your Macs has been infected then you can do a rudimentary check on your system by running the following two commands in the Terminal (copy and paste them):
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist LSEnvironment
defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info.plist LSEnvironment
These commands will read the property list within the applications and check to see if they have been modified to launch other applications when opened. In the output for these commands, if you see text that includes “DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES” followed by a path that points to a specific file, then your system has been infected. If you do not see this text output and instead see “The domain/default pair…does not exist,” then your system has not been infected.
Security: “defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info.plist LSEnvironment”
Sometimes, for no particular reason, a CD or DVD can become unrecognizable in your Mac and you can’t find a way to eject the disc. The one most positive way to eject the disc is to restart your Mac and hold the mouse button down until the disc is ejected. If you have a wireless mouse or trackpad, you may need to find a wired mouse to make this work. On MacBooks, just hold the trackpad or mouse button (depending on your model).
Apple Applications
Video and text tutorials are available on Apple’s website and iTunes:
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Found an interesting site which has cheat sheets for many Mac applications and uses Safari’s Open in Dashboard feature. Click on your application from the list and follow the instructions on the left panel.
dashkards — dashboard cheat sheets for your favorite mac apps: “”
