- Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy | Netcraft
If only I used a laptop on public wifi I'd set this up…
- How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping
This has become a reasonably hot issue in the last week or so, as I hope my post earlier made clear. If you're a Mac user, there's some stuff in here that'll help…
- CleanMyMac – Enjoy your clean Mac with just a few clicks!
Should probably run this at home – I just had a quick check on my work machine, and discovered I could free up 4GB of space, and I suspect that number will be higher at home…
- Fast-Forward: The Future of Science Fiction in Africa
Really interesting article on African SF writing – why there hasn't been much of it historically, and why it's something to really look forward to.
Tag: osx
Bookmarks for April 28, 2010
- TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more!
This is what I have been missing from Mac OS. I am so ludicrously happy to see it, it's untrue. It's just a little thing, but it's going to make such a difference to my working life…
Bookmarks for February 23, 2010
- Rivet – Stream your music, movies, and photos to your Xbox and PS3
I've got a system prefs thing set up to do this, but it's unrelaible, and I wonder if this would work better…
Bookmarks for February 10, 2010
- LESS – Leaner CSS
Makes CSS easier to work with.
- LESS.app For Mac OS X — LESS CSS app
"This app makes working with LESS a snap by turning it into a graphical interface." Allegedly, anyway. Might be useful if I go down the LESS route for future projects.
Bookmarks for February 3, 2010
- Subversion Scripts for Mac OS X Finder
Handy set of version control scripts to handle simple SVN tasks.
- Notational Velocity
I've just dropped this on my work PC, and need to drop it on my home PCs, and then I'll have some completely joined up note taking tools – iphone, laptop, desktops, and, indeed, once I've hammered a quick script together, automated versioned backups of same.
Bookmarks for January 21, 2010
- BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop.
Trying this out at work. Initial stuff seem positive.
- Ipredator – Surf the web anonymously and secure
This is very tempting. Certainly, if the DEB bill passes in it's present form, I'll be switching to this, or something very like it. (I tried TOR for basic web browsing, but it's sufficiently slow and fucked that I stopped again.)
Bookmarks for December 14, 2009
- The London Nobody Sings …
A blog of songs about London. Excellent.
- 25th annual Editors' Choice Awards: the complete list | Mac – Page 2 | Macworld
Might wind up getting a few of these.
- Mac Gems of the Year (2009) Review | Software | Mac Gems | Macworld
Might wind up forking out for a few of these.
Bookmarks for December 11, 2009
- Airlock
Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a potential problem with bluetooth related battery drain on the iphone here, but if they've somehow cracked that, then this could be very interesting/useful – not so much for the security tools, but more for the fact that I could them script for proximity, and use that to log my location through the day.
- BBC News – Postcode data to be free in 2010
About time. UK based locational services are about to get better. Or at least cheaper.
Bookmarks for December 8, 2009
- Welcome – Ommwriter
A clutter free text editor that blocks out other distractions and saves as plain text by default. I like and use Scrivener, but honestly, it's got more power then I need for something simply like, say, writing a blog post. So I'll give this a go, and see how we get on.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.