The guys at MacHeist are into christmas mood and giving away free Mac Apps for christmas. Check the website here and signup to unwarp your present on christmas morning. Just for signing up you are already given 2 nice “pre-christmas” gifts right away.

We say, great stuff and hope everyone who signs up gets something useful of this nice christmas idea.

Happy XMas Holidays!

With the help of the Automator programm “Fix DFU 10.5.6″ users with Mac OS X 10.5.6 will be able to use the iPhone in DFU mode with iTunes. DFU mode is needed if you want to use PwnageTool or Quickpwn for the first time.

Mac OS X 10.5.6 was released on December 15th, 2008. It disables recognition of a device (like the iPhone) in DFU mode. It is not known if this is intentionally disabled by Apple or just a bug.

The Automator programm offers a one click solution to replace two plugin kexts with the ones from Mac OS X 10.5.5 and then rebuild the kextcache. After an automatic reboot DFU mode will be enabled at Mac OS X 10.5.6.

Read more about it here http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?p=374065

EFiX - A small USB module that makes the installation of Mac OS X on Non-Mac hardware, was under the spotlight today for news that it would sell Mac clones.  Unfortunately, those rumours have been squashed by EFiX’s creators.

Davide Rutigliano, CEO of Art Studios Entertainment, had the following to say about the issue:

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Apple has today released a new version of Safari 3.2 for Mac & Windows users which improves fraudulent website protection.

This update is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses. This update also includes the latest security updates.

For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Apple has finally seeded a  new pre release version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to developers. The seeded Image is 6.7 Gb in size, which does not show the new smaller footprint of the new cat yet. Snow Leopard, as a yet unique revival of a older OSX system instead of a staging towards something diffrent and new, will bring us a from core renewed and rewritten system with a smaller footprint and tightend security.

We will try to give you a brief overview of the new seed soon.