Mac AntiVirus: ClamXav.com

ClamXav is a free anti-virus package for Mac OS X which, as of today, supports Jaguar (10.2) through Leopard (10.5). VU versions for Jaguar and Panther (10.2 and 10.3) are unsupported, but Tiger and Leopard are actively maintained, Universal Mac applications. Go to the ClamXav Download Page to get your version.

I liked this flavor of antivirus for the Mac because it is based on the ClamAV open source antivirus toolkit for UNIX. You can learn more about the Clam AntiVirus toolkit from their website, and this is a standard option in most Linux distributions.

After you download the disk image file, simply drag the ClamXav application to your applications folder and run it from your hard disk. The first time you run the program, it will ask to install the ClamAV Antivirus engine. After you run the separate installer, you’ll need to start the program again. Take a moment to update the virus definitions, and then run a scan on any folder or volume on your Mac.

Super-Clean Screenshots

From Apple, a great tip:

Super-Clean Screenshots

capture an image of your entire screen by typing Command-Shift-3. Typing Command-Shift-4 lets you choose a specific part of your screen to save as a screenshot ... Hold down the Command, Shift, and 4 keys, then press the Spacebar ... move [the] camera icon over the element you’d like to capture, that element is highlighted. Click your mouse or trackpad, and you’ve captured a screenshot of just that element — no further cleanup required.

Perhaps we'll see some more screen shots here on the blog...