103 posts tagged “macos”
2006
WriteRoom
I had a look at WriteRoom a few months ago and wasn’t impressed, but Leonard just convinced me to give it another look and I’m completely sold. It’s a free text editor for OS X with two killer features:
[... 157 words]So long Safari?
All browsers have bugs—especially relating to fancy JavaScript stuff. Any truly complex web application is likely to run in to browser bugs, and fixing them takes a whole bunch of time. Bugs in IE and Firefox are pretty well understood, as are the workarounds for them.
[... 317 words]2005
Secure wireless email on Mac OS X. Doug Bowman’s tutorial on SSH Tunnel Manager and wireless security.
2004
PostgreSQL startup items for MacOS X (via) Thank you! I’ve been wanting this for months.
OS X Security Update 2004-09-07 (via) Plenty of important fixes; a must-have.
PyObjC 1.1 (and move to subversion). “Because it is a Subversion repository, that same URL can be used to browser the source, checkout the source via Subversion, or mount the PyObjC repository in the Finder and copy out any branch, tag or the trunk by simple drag-n-drop.”
Daring Fireball: Security Cannot Be Spun. Apple’s communication handling of the recent security problem was atrocious.
Mac OS X helpviewer security flaw fixed. Hit Software Update. Not sure if this fixes the telnet: variety though.
Defending against the OS X help: vulnerability
There’s a nasty OS X vulnerability under discussion at the moment which lets a web page execute code on your machine by taking advantage of a flaw in the “help:” protocol. There’s a non-malicious demonstration of the exploit on this page, and Jay Allen is hosting a discussion on the exploit and ways to avoid it.
[... 253 words]Mac OS X URI Handler Arbitrary Code Execution (via) Very nasty: affects all web browsers, allows compromise by malicious web sites.
Goliath. WebDAV client for OS X with SSL support.