Every time you install an application with a traditional installer under Mac OS X, you have to enter your user password first, unless, of course, the installer has no provision for that. And most do.
When you first run an application that you download from the Internet, Leopard delivers another warning, explaining it is a downloaded [...]

The other day, from out of nowhere, comes the first beta of the new open source version of that famed email application, Eudora. In case you tuned in late, the publisher, Qualcomm, best known for for building cell phone chips these days, has given up on this venerable application. The project has been handed off [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I made a promise on The Tech Night Owl LIVE to attempt to install Windows Vista RC1 with the latest version of Parallels Desktop for Intel-based Macs. I like to keep promises, but their support for Vista remains purely experimental, according to Parallels, and Microsoft’s installer crashed shortly after it [...]