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There have been a number of reports in the last days of iTunes app developers apparently accessing other iTunes users’ accounts to buy their applications, to increase their rating on iTunes. People have had bills of $100 or more generated for apps and books that they didn’t order. It is not clear at . . . → Read More: Online security Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want to switch back to having the clients get the updates from Apple’s servers. The problem seems to lie with Apple’s Managed Preferences, which is part of MCX. Here is what I understand happens, and a solution: Continue reading Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers Using the waze desktop maps There is a new social mobile application on the block – waze.com. You can download the application onto your smartphone (Apple, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian at the moment, Blackberry is coming shortly) and use the free software as an on-board turn-by-turn navigation system. The maps are . . . → Read More: Help fill in the blanks on waze.com I can’t see the point in some of the more modern internet trends – I tried FaceBook and gave up after a couple of weeks, and have never felt the slightest urge to share my life using Twitter. However I know quite a few people who do use Twitter. They may want to consider . . . → Read More: Careful what you tweet… I have seen several articles over the years indicating that there are no problems in using a standard / client version of OS X as a server instead of using the OS X Server version, which is a darn sight more expensive. And indeed I have used a Mac mini with a client version . . . → Read More: Using Snow Leopard instead of Snow Leopard Server? Digital Inspiration has an interesting idea for people who have to log on to multiple web sites from public computers, or just for people who want secure passwords even if they don’t spend a lot of time in internet cafes. It uses paper. If you use the same password for multiple sites, you . . . → Read More: A paper-based password system Recently Ruth asked me to set up a new website for her and some other textile artists who she has met. So I set up Use Your Eyes for them. Ruth was quite taken with the design, and decided she wanted her own blog Sew2Speak changing to use a similar skin, which is what . . . → Read More: Ruth’s new websites It is surprising how many large companies which like to think of themselves as international, and who advertise in the international press can’t cope with having customers in countries other than their home land. From our own recent experience: A subsidiary of a British bank – one of the national brands – . . . → Read More: International? Not us mate! Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if . . . → Read More: So where’s the backup going to be? I have just subscribed to Humyo.de (they also have an address at Humyo.com for english speaking users). Humyo offer an interesting service. You can backup 10GB of your local data to their servers for free, or you can pay €59.50 a year for 100GB of storage and also use a utility that you get . . . → Read More: Humyo doesn’t like long file names |
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