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Secure iPhone Browsing

Written on November 28, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 9 people have commented

If you’re a security nut, browsing at a public hotspot can be like showering in a public bathroom. You might have no other option, depending on your circumstances, but you’re bound to feel a little creeped out and you’d probably rather have some flip flops on. Think of Hotspot Shield as flip-flops for your computer. [...]

The iPhone Gets Stickier With Glue

Written on November 18, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

I’m a social kind of guy. On the web, that means I’m a social media kind of guy. Which is why I was interested in Glue, a service from AdaptiveBlue that turns Firefox into one big trip to Indigo/DVD night/book club/music exchange. Now Glue for iPhone brings the same kind of experience to your mobile [...]

Access Bonjour Services From Anywhere With ShareTool

Written on November 11, 2008 by David Appleyard and 3 people have commented

ShareTool is a piece of software which allows you to easily access your Mac from a remote location. To quote their tagline: “ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world.” The term ‘Bonjour services’ is fairly generic, but means that [...]

Best Kept Secrets: Hardware Growler

Written on November 06, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 13 people have commented

My enthusiastic use and promotion of Growl should come as no surprise to regular readers of The Apple Blog. While some dismiss it as an annoyance reminiscent of the Windows notification popups, others — like myself - view it as a way be informed without stopping what I am currently doing (and that is definitely [...]

Airport Extreme Update Pulled, But Damage Already Done

Written on October 23, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 21 people have commented

Updates turning out to be harmful rather than helpful are nothing new, and it’s beginning to look like you can add Apple’s latest Airport Extreme software “fix” to the list of the potentially damaging.
Complaints from commenters and bloggers around the net are beginning to pile up, yet Apple remains silent on the status of the [...]

Apple Developing Networked LCD HDTV/Apple TV Hybrid?

Written on October 13, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 6 people have commented

Perhaps tired of notebooks hogging the spotlight lately, Apple TV is the subject of new rumors that surfaced this past weekend.
Jason Calacanis is making claims that Cupertino is developing a line of network-ready HDTV’s with built-in Apple TV functionality.  The TV’s would offer the same feature-set as the current Apple TV peripheral, but would cut [...]

Tales From The Command Line: What’s Going On? (lsof)

Written on August 01, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 4 people have commented

As mentioned in the previous installment, there is a very useful command buried deep within the confines of your OS X terminal. This command - lsof (LiSt Open Files) - is like the Swiss Army knife of utilities, proving information on files, directories, volumes and even what is happening on the network. Unlike iftop, lsof [...]

Force iPhone to Find Network

Written on May 16, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 6 people have commented

I live in New York, so I’m constantly losing my iPhone signal when I go onto the subway. Sometimes when I get off the train and I’m back in range of the phone still can’t find the network. Recently, my phone has randomly also been telling me “No Sim” even though it’s just been [...]

A chink in the AirPort armor?

Written on October 04, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 11 people have commented

Is it possible the AirPort Extreme base station isn’t catching all the malicious traffic bound for my home network? I just opened Console to check on an issue I was having with lookupd, but I was distracted when the ipfw.log firewall log file popped up with quite a lot of blocked attempts.
How many? Try 7831 [...]

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