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Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Like many people, I’ve had some issues with the migration from MobileMe (and .Mac before that and iTools before that) to iCloud, and as I happen to be the sort of person people come to with questions about this, I thought I’d collect a few useful links here:
Tags: Apple, iCloud, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iTools, Mac OS X, MobileMe
Posted in Mobile computing, software, Usability | 1 Comment »
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Since updating to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, my desktop anti-spam software has become unexpectedly aggressive, to the point where about 80% of the messages in my spam folder were legitimate messages.
If you’ve been expecting to hear from me I should be in touch soon.
In general the update to Lion has gone smoothly, though.
Tags: Email, Lion, Mac OS X, Spam
Posted in software | Comments Off
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Twitter’s popularity continues to grow, second only to Facebook in terms of the sheer number of users. The Twitter.com website offers a sophisticated interface, but there’s a healthy community of third-party developers providing apps that access Twitter’s features on the desktop and on mobile platforms.
The Apple ecosystem has been blessed with a number of really solid Twitter clients for Mac OS X and iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), and one of the best — Twitterrific (which was featured among Macworld’s “10 best reading and productivity apps for 2010″) — has just released a major new version for Mac OS X. (more…)
Tags: iOS, Mac OS X, Review, twitter, Twitterrific
Posted in Mobile computing, Social media, software | Comments Off
Friday, November 26th, 2010
John Brandon has posted a glowing review of Agile Web Solutions’ 1Password 3 at Macworld.com.
1Password is simply indispensable. It runs on Apple’s Mac OS X (in Safari, Firefox and Chrome), in iOS (for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad), for Microsoft Windows and, via 1Passwordanywhere, via the web (providing access for Linux users and Mac & PC users when they’re not at their own computers).
1Password has many things going for it:
- Less-filling, tastes great — it’s both convenient to use and highly secure (the holy grail of security in any context)
- Encourages security, rewards laziness — 1Password makes it easy to use a different, high-quality password at every site you frequent (by generating them for you automatically, avoiding the dangerous tendency to recycle the same password at multiple sites)
- Anti-phishing protection — by using pattern-matching to only show you the appropriate logins for the site you’re on, it will recognize when you’ve been lured onto a site that’s masquerading as your bank or sears.ca and won’t provide your login credentials.
- Cheaper than the alternatives — It costs much less than the time and hassles involved with compromised online banking or ecommerce accounts
- Active development — Agile Web Solutions has always provided timely updates for new browsers and operating systems — this is one of the most actively-developed apps that I use daily
Tags: 1Password, Dropbox, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows
Posted in Mobile computing, Security, software, Web sites | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Using Coda 1.6 from Panic under Mac OS X on a widescreen display is great, since you can see so much code at once.
I like to see a visual preview of my page while I’m editing, though, and that doesn’t fit so well with Coda’s 1-window approach. Or does it?
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Tags: Coda, Mac OS X, software, widescreen
Posted in Screencasts | 2 Comments »
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