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01.23.09
Life with the NC10 and OSX Apple, Hardware, Software | (0)
After Christmas, I spent two and a half weeks in Spain with my wife's family. Having done this many a time, and having taken many different laptops with me, I generally know what I need from a laptop to keep me semi-sane.One of the best laptops I'd taken in the past was the 12" PowerBook, and believe me, if Apple made an Intel netbook approaching this small footprint form factor, I'd have one. But alas, that's a different blog post waiting to happen. However, the 15" MacBook Pro was a pain in the ass. No desk space to keep it ...
10.28.08
Widgets and free apps Apple, Software | (0)
One of the lads on my regular video gaming forum, NTSC-uk, is getting a Mac, and was asking what apps and widgets people use on Mac. No specifics, just chuck some ideas at him. Here's what I said; Continue Reading...
10.01.08
Pixelmator says a thousand words Apple, Graphics, Software | (0)
Pixelmator's been making in-roads into designers/programmers toolboxes on the mac for a year or so now. You may have read or heard about it on the various Mac news sites, it's a light-weight image editor, built on Cocoa, passing graphics tasks off to your graphics chip, challenging Photoshop etc.Some of it's hype, some of it hyperbole, but what can't be ignored is that Pixelmator's a great app that's turning heads. And it's $59. No, that's not a typo.I grabbed a beta of Pixelmator when it first launched and was mildly impressed. On a recent MacHeist bundle, Pixelmator was one of ...
09.15.08
Why Opera? Software, web | (0)
Bruce Lawson asked the Twitterverse for a show of hands of Opera users, and their whys, but if not, let him know the reasons. At the moment, I'm an Opera user.I say at the moment because my browser of choice seems to change on a bi-monthly basis. Being a Mac user, with the whole Mobile Me set-up and an iPhone, there's a certain amont of comfort in using Safari. As such, I usually flirt with another browser for a few weeks, then fall back to old faithful.So what sets me off looking to swap browsers? Continue Reading...
05.17.07
Gone in (just over) 60 seconds Cracking, KisMac, kismet, Software, Stumbling | (0)
An article on The Register proclaiming WEP is dead. A group of 3 German students have refined the methods and developed a faster method for cracking using ARP packet injections... “So to make it a little bit easier for the reader we can say that 60 seconds are enough to collect 40,000 packets and crack the key with a 50 per cent success rate.” Basically, this kicks down the already shoddy house that is WEP encryption, and really, if you have no need to hook up your PSP and Nintendo DS,you should be using WPA authentication on your networks at least.The obvious ...

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