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Earlier this week I needed to create some HTML prototypes for a client, and when I looked around for simple Mac OS X HTML form prototyping tools, I was disappointed to see, well, nothing.

Five to ten years ago I used to sit down with clients and create HTML form prototypes using Microsoft FrontPage, and since their 2000 version, it was actually very good. It created very clean code, kept your changes in tact, and was as simple as could be to create HTML forms.

Summary: How to schedule a Mac automatic wake up time (or sleep time).

While answering a reader's question about an unrelated Mac issue, I stumbled onto a solution of how to wake up my Mac at a specific time every day. This is very cool for me, because it fits in very well with my Mac AppleScript iTunes alarm clock.

Mac OS X crontab FAQ: How do I run a Unix job (or shell script) through the OS X crontab facility? I keep trying to edit my Mac crontab file, but my Mac OS X system won't save my crontab changes, or run my program (or shell script).

Mac OS X - crontab, launchd, and launchctl

As of this writing (updated in 2011), the Mac crontab command seems to be deprecated on Mac OS X, and the Apple documentation encourages you to use their "Mac launchd" facility. Here's a blurb from the Mac OS X crontab man page:

From everything I've read on Apple's discussion forums, the Mac Defender trojan/virus can only be installed on your Mac OS X system under the following circumstances:

It looks like reports of the "Mac Defender" trojan/virus/malware are the real deal. Several Apple discussion forums related to the Mac Defender trojan (it's not a virus) have several thousands page-views and hundreds of comments. You can find these threads by searching Google with this query: