Apple late Monday released an urgent OS X security patch to address a vulnerability in the operating system’s Network Time Protocol (NTP) service. All users of OS X Mountain Lion, OS X Mavericks, and OS X Yosemite are urged to apply the update “as soon as possible.”
How to Turn Off & Manage Mac OS X’s Gatekeeper
In response to growing malware and virus concerns in Mac OS X, Apple introduced Gatekeeper, a new security feature, as part of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (and later ported it to OS X 10.7 Lion as of version 10.7.5). Gatekeeper prevents a user from launching applications that are not from the Mac App Store or registered developers. Depending on how you use your Mac and what apps you use, Gatekeeper can be both useful and annoying. Here’s how to…
How to Completely Disable Notification Center in Mac OS X
We’ve covered some Notification Center tips at TekRevue, but what if you just don’t want Apple’s notification platform at all? Here’s how to indefinitely banish it from your Mac: First, launch the Terminal app from /Applications/Utilities, enter the following command, and press Return: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist You’ll see the Notification Center icon disappear from your Mac’s menu bar. You may notice that there’s now a blank space between your rightmost menu bar icon and the edge of your screen.…
How to Add iTunes Track Information to OS X Notification Center
Notification Center is a handy iOS tool brought to the desktop with OS X Mountain Lion that alerts users to various events on their Mac. Apple included built-in Notification Center support for many apps, such as Mail and FaceTime, but oddly neglected iTunes. Thankfully, third party apps can also tie into Notification Center and solve this oversight on Apple’s part. iTunification is a free app that adds iTunes notifications to Notification Center. When properly configured, users will receive a Notification…
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