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<p><p>If you've been using the parental controls options in Mac OS X to lock your child out of using a particular computer late at night, but would like to employ a more clever technique to limit Internet access, turn to MAC address filtering on an Apple base station.</p><p>To do this, launch AirPort Utility, select your base station, and click Manual Setup. In the Access Control view, choose Time Access to turn on MAC filtering. You'll need to enter the MAC address of the particular computer, which (in 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) you can find in the Network System Preferences pane: click AirPort in the adapter list, and click Advanced. The AirPort ID is the MAC address.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6994" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6994">SpamSieve 1.2.1 Adds Email Clients -- Apple has made a big deal out of the spam filtering method that its Mail program uses to weed out unwanted email</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 18 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6986"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6986', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.2.2 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6986" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6986">Mac OS X 10.2.2 Released -- Apple released the Mac OS X 10.2.2 update via Software Update late today, rolling in a number of bug fixes, improvements for both Apple's built-in programs and third-party applications, networking enhancements, and enhanced compatibility with other devices</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 11 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6987"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6987', 'show')">Apple Releases Power Mac SuperDrive Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6987" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6987">Apple Releases Power Mac SuperDrive Update -- Apple has posted an important update for owners of older SuperDrive-equipped Power Mac G4 computers (specifically, the Digital Audio, Quicksilver, or Quicksilver 2002 models, but not the Mirrored Drive Doors model, to use Apple's insipid model identification scheme)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 11 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6992"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6992', 'show')">Tungsten T Marks New Beginning for Palm</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6992">Palm's efforts at securing the high end of the Palm OS handheld market have been surprisingly rocky over the last few years. Last month, Palm released the Palm Tungsten T, a multimedia-enhanced handheld that indicates the company is making a serious foray into the field that it created</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 11 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6969"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6969', 'show')">Apple Posts Important iMac SuperDrive Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6969" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6969">Apple Posts Important iMac SuperDrive Update -- Apple has released the iMac SuperDrive Update, the first of a series of SuperDrive firmware updates that are critical for owners of SuperDrive-equipped Macs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 Oct 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6970" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6970">Aladdin Expands StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.1 -- Soon after introducing a new StuffIt compression format, Aladdin has released an update to its system-wide utility for compressing and expanding files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 Oct 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6971">Palm Unveils Tungsten T -- Palm, Inc. improved the top of its line of handhelds today by releasing the Palm Tungsten T, a color organizer that adds multimedia capabilities and the new Palm OS 5 to the company's lineup</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6966"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6966', 'show')">Apple, IDG World Expo Play Hardball Over Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6966" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6966">Would Macworld Expo be the same without Apple? That's the question Mac users and vendors are asking themselves as Apple and conference organizer IDG World Expo publicly trade barbs about Apple's participation in upcoming trade shows.The brouhaha erupted late last week, when IDG World Expo announced that the 2004 East Coast expo would move from New York City, where the event has been held since 1998, to the show's original East Coast venue, Boston</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 21 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6958"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6958', 'show')">Handspring Treo 180: Almost There</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6958" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6958">I'm sure it was only weeks after the introduction of the original Pilot before someone asked, "If I have all my phone numbers in this little organizer anyway, why can't I use it as a phone, too?" To judge by the paucity of such devices since then, fusing a handheld and a cellular phone turns out to be a tricky problem.Size is the main issue</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 14 Oct 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6945" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6945">Apple Extends .Mac Deadline -- If any iTools members remain on the fence about whether to pay for .Mac, Apple is giving you a couple more weeks to decide</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6946"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6946', 'show')">iSync Public Beta Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6946" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6946">iSync Public Beta Released -- More than two months after previewing iSync at Macworld Expo, Apple has released a public beta of its multifaceted synchronization software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6948"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6948', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.5 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6948" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6948">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.5 Released -- Now Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.5, adding Jaguar compatibility and iPod synchronization to its powerful calendaring and contact management program</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6937"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6937', 'show')">Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.1 and iTunes 3.0.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6937" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6937">Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.1 and iTunes 3.0.1 -- Apple pushed a trio of small upgrades out the door last week through Software Update and as separate downloads</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6938" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6938">PowerMate 1.5 Released -- Griffin Technology has released PowerMate 1.5, an update to the software running its eerily popular $45 multimedia controller (the "shiny knob" we wrote about in our Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 superlatives article</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6928">Watson 1.5.5 Adds Google, Amazon Plug-ins -- Karelia Software has released Watson 1.5.5, its utility for easily gathering information from the Web that offers more features than Apple's otherwise-similar Sherlock 3</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6930"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6930', 'show')">BBEdit 6.5.3, QuicKeys X 1.5.3 Add Jaguar Compatibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6930" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6930">BBEdit 6.5.3, QuicKeys X 1.5.3 Add Jaguar Compatibility -- Now that developers have had more time to work with the shipping version of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, applications are being updated to address various compatibility issues</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6931"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6931', 'show')">Making a Case for iPod Cases</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6931" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6931">Apple took a lot of flak from many people - including me - about the iPod's initial high price of $400. Although the snazzy MP3 player was certainly well designed, other devices, such as the Archos Jukebox, boasted more storage and lower prices</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6922" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6922">Netscape 7 Released -- Netscape Communications has released Netscape 7, a promising improvement to the now-underdog Web browser. New in Netscape Navigator 7 is tabbed windows, which enable you to load multiple Web sites within the same browser window, plus overall performance improvements and bug fixes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6914"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6914', 'show')">Mac OS X Security Updates Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6914" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6914">Mac OS X Security Updates Released -- Apple has made available a pair of security updates for Mac OS X to help prevent unwanted access to your Mac. Specifically, the updates modify components of Mac OS X to incorporate changes in OpenSSL 0.9.6g, and the Sun RPC XDR encoder under Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 26 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6916"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6916', 'show')">Default Folder X 1.6 Adds Jaguar Compatibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6916" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6916">Default Folder X 1.6 Adds Jaguar Compatibility -- St. Clair Software has updated Default Folder X to version 1.6, adding Mac OS X 10.2 compatibility and other features to the Open and Save dialog utility</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 26 Aug 2002</div></div>
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