Password Security.
Most people assume that their passwords are either secure, or that they don’t need to be secure as they have nothing to steel?

Identity theft is growing daily and a majority of it starts right at the computer. (More information on Identity theft can be found here.)

Enter Safari and Private Browsing.
Not just for the Mac, Safari – Apples Web browser provides you with the ability to enable “Private Browsing”.

Private Browsing is a helpful feature when you need to use a shared computer, such as one in a library, Internet café, or office. The advantages of private browsing are many, including:

Out of the box security

Out of the box, the Mac has several benefits for both single users and for the business enterprise – on the security level.

The Basics
The need to protect against hackers and other threats is a fact of life. Mac OS X features a number of built-in technologies to help you fend off attacks and keep unwanted email out of your employees’ inboxes.

User benefit:
When users are protected from spam and other computer security threats, they can do their jobs without wasting time deleting spam messages or calling IT to fix a computer that has a virus.

Iphone Touch that is.
For a while, I’ve been struggling to sort out the simple things when it comes to the iPhone. Specifically – sync between Mac, Google Apps and iPhone. This, is pretty straight forward. Now, let’s look at another challenge. A windows/outlook client as well and get them all to sync at the same time.
Enter several solutions.
Google Calendar Sync. Great – for one calendar. Works well between google and outlook. Sucks for everything else.
Google calendar and iCal will directly sync. Yep! This works with a minimum of fuss and …

Simple trouble shooting issues and the steps to make sure they don’t happen again.

Well, things have been really, really busy.
Anyway, I won’t bore you with all of the “work related” stuff for a change.
For some thing totally different, I thought I would post up some of my favourite pic’s of the two girls in my life.

We are so busy at the moment it’s not funny.
Working on a lot of different projects from e-Commerce through to our own new site.
Here’s a sneak peak of what we are currently doing: 
Amityone One web site.
Asked to rebuild the Amityone one web site with a pre design supplied.
Done in one weekend!
www.amityone.com.au
A Touch of Purple.
This one is a lot trickier .. A full blow e-Commerce shopping cart using our favourite engine.
Providing 50 + products in multiple categories with delivery codes, smarts, AJAX and a whole host of other bits and pieces.
The work …

Had the privilege of designing, building and training the XSiGHT guys in their new blog a few weeks ago.
If you haven’t seen the work that these guys do, then you are missing out.
Go here and have a look:
www.xsight.com.au/blog
A small sample of their work is available here:

http://www.xsight.com.au/blog/2008/11/paul-maria-25th-october-2008/
http://www.xsight.com.au/blog/2008/11/christopher-patricia-5th-november-2008/

Check it  out!.
Regards, 
Scott Malpass 

I say it often, maybe too often! But, I blew my budget on technology again. Had an offer too good to refuse, so I traded in my old mac and bought a new Mac Book Pro.
Man, what a difference. No reviews here – there are already way too many on the web. What I will say though.
The screen, huge! The graphics and the overall performance - Magnificent.
The overall end use experience – 9.6/10
Windows – it has it’s place – but my favourite is Mac.
Thanks Steve and the guys at Apple!.
We love you.
Regards,
Scott …