VirusBarrier bundled with a Mac Mini 1.83 Intel MacOS 10.56 by German vendor GRAVIS caused serious trouble on the machine of my girlfriend. First the installer freezed. I killed the process after half an hour and restarted. In the disk utility I suddenly had two volumes, but there is only one build in. Looks like a rootkit - it puts the MacOS into a virtual machine, so you are unable to search he term "Intego" with spotlight or finder to remove it correctly -but it is definitely installed and you can see it in the activity monitor or in the terminal using the "top" command. The uninstaller from Integos website dind't find the software components hidden in the system. After searching in the internet I found a hint regarding Intego Icalserver. After killing its process and moving the it to the thrash I restarted. There was no process running, but the external firewire drive for the timemachine update was dead.
I think no virus can cause more trouble than this "protection" software, so beware of that crap.
PS. and OT: under Mac OS 9 they had a software called Netbarrier. It changed the folder "system" in the systemfolder, so Techtool Lite couldn't verify the system anymore.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.017 at home with MacOS 10.39 (G4 MacOS 10.39 1.2 GHZ) and at work with SUSE Linux (Dual 2.4 GHZ Intel) for about one year. At home I still have an old 300 MHZ G3 BW with Outlook Express and MacOS 9.21. What can I say, OE on the old machine is twice as fast, Thunderbird is way too slow and it can't show the replied messages. My personal conclusion is to downgrade to OE. One year is more than enough, sorry.

I recently got one of those Capture One LE versions supplied with a memory card and have to second one of my previous writers: the files you're getting finally are looking quite different than in the preview.
Think about it when you apply sharpening and your results can look quite nice. But sadly C1's file manager is very confusing and the temporary files stored in the pictures folder are huge. If you use this app permanently you have to expect the iPhoto effect: your harddrive gets a rubbish dump very quickly, better go for a bigger one soon.

Compared with other, even free alternatives like the UFRaw Plugin for Gimpshop, Silkypix, Rawker, DCRaw which all are easier in use and delivering excellent results as well, I'm asking myself about what the fuss with C1 online registration and one copy per system folder when I can get the same or even better software for free?

You may have disabled cookies in your browser, but Flash creates cookies itself. Just right-click at a Flash animation in your browser. In the pop-up choose "settings" and than you're able to see and delete the cookies set by Flash. To disable this behaviour by default, you have to go to the Adobe site and use the settings manager.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html
If you find that behaviour suspicious like me, Apple Script may help. The only browser you can switch plugins on and off is iCab. But there is a walkaround for Mozilla and others I tried with MacOS 9.22:
First create a folder called: Internet Plugins (off). Then start the script editor, start recording and move the files Shockwave Flash NP-PPC and flashplayer.xpt from the folder "Internet plugins" to the "off" folder. Stop the recording, delete redundant code and save as application "Flash off". Then start recording again and repeat the procedure backwards, save as app "flash on".
Your done.

Phoenix Slides is amazing fast, the handling by shortcuts is very Mac-like and ergonomic. It offers lossless JPEG rotation, excellent slide shows even with exif-tags - and no annoying, growing cache like iPhoto- in short:
The best image viewer for the Mac around. Dot.