Tag:Mac OS X
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Getting Things Done : A Cobbler's Tale
Starting sometime mid-year in 2011, I began having more 'stuff' to do than even my eidetic memory could help with. It's not that I forgot things, per se, but the ability to mentally recall and prioritize work, family, personal and other…
Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X scene. If there were just three…
Dropbox 1.2.0 Experimental Build "Fixes" Security Issue
If you are concerned about the Dropbox design flaw exposed by the dbClone attack, then have we got a link for…
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured Dropbox…
"Flatten" HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
One of my most popular blog posts — 24,000 reads — in the old, co-mingled site was a short snippet on how to strip HTML tags from a block of content in Objective-C. It's been used by many-an-iOS developer (which was the original…
"Repairing" Strict Transport Security in Chrome on OS X
One of my subdomains is for mail and I was using an easy DNS hack to point it to my hosted Gmail setup (just create a CNAME pointing to ghs.google.com ). This stopped working for some folks this week and I've had no time to debug exactly…
Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid - SupportDetails
I'm putting together a computer & online safety presentation for an upcoming talk at a senior center in Portsmouth (NH) and came across Support Details in my information hunting trek. This site makes it dirt simple to get basic information…
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08
Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08 — rud.is blog archive
'Spaces' for Windows
I've been setting up a relatively new 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine and decided to see if the virtual desktops landscape had changed much in the recent past. It's amazing that with all of the feature duplication between OS X, nix (esp…
Backup Workflow
I'm [still] a die-hard OS X user, despite the increasing gatekeeper motif Apple is sporting these days. My main computer is a MacBook Pro which I would stupidly run back into a burning building to rescue. Everything is on it. Everything .…