Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

I’ve been encountering continious wifi connection issues for a while now (6 months at least), specifically, my MacBook Pro would lose connection but when I turn the Airport off then on it would be OK.  So many, many months ago I did some research and found it to be due to the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-001, which I rolled back to AirPort Extreme Update 2007-004.  It fixed the connectivity issues for a couple of months, but recently I’ve been experiencing it again.

Looking through the logs again, I found this blog post: Macbook Pro: Network connectivity just disappears.  He was getting the exact mDNSResponder errors, such as:

mDNSResponder: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0
mDNSResponder: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for fw0(7) Flags 8863 Family 2 169.254.59.71 has different family: 0

The culprit: Apple’s Bonjour service.  To disable it, here’s the complete how-to article, but the command you need to run is:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

Hope this helps someone who’s experiencing the same issue.  Ciao!

If you’re a Mac user that uses MacFreePOPs for your e-mail, you should download and install the latest update.  It’s here.  Enjoy!

 Apple officially updated its iMac consumer desktop computer today, adding faster processors and a more powerful graphics option for the 24-inch model.

For the processor, you can now choose between: 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (special order).  And the 24-inch model can now include either an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory.

Too bad the memory options are still the same (i.e., 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB).  In any case, I still love ‘em iMacs!

Interesting news from Apple (read: Steve Jobs): the iPhone now supports Microsoft Exchange. 

Pretty cool.  Too bad I’m stuck in a 2-year contract.  But it’s okay, as I’d rather wait for the nth generation of the iPhone that I know will have more features and will have been tried-and-tested.

Let’s see how this pans out with the BlackBerry fans (I’m one of them).  =0)

A company named Intego apparently found a malicious Trojan Horse that actually is harmful (OS X attacks and exploits were previously developed that lacked malicious power).  According to Intego the Trojan Horse:

…disguises itself as a video codec that offers access to a pornographic video…and users attempting to install the codec receive a piece of malware classified as a ‘DNS Changer’ which modifies the way OS X handles the DNS requests used to link numerical IP addresses to web URLs.

The tool allows the attackers to redirect web traffic. Users attempting to visit PayPal, eBay or certain banking sites, for instance, will be directed to a phishing website instead.

You will see something like:

Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file.
Please click here to download new version of codec.

Read more about OSX.RSPlug.A.  And just keep in mind that “a spokesperson for Symantec suggested that Intego “has a tendency to over-hype things.”