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It’s a real secret

January 10, 2005 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

Back in 1982 I used to work for Apple answering Apple II support questions by phone. A couple of times people would call and ask questions about the Macintosh. This was two years before it was released! I guess Apples confidentiality is a lot better today.

First Mac rumor on the internet.

Filed Under: Macintosh

Usenet – The forgotten network

March 30, 2004 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

Photo by Paul Hammond

Photo by Paul Hammond

It’s been awhile since I last logged on to Usenet to read some groups and to download stuff. I found this great application called Unison from a company called Panic. And it’s great. I even signed up for a Usenet account from them when buying the software. I now have a 10mbit line at home, and no Usenet provider has been able to provide a fast enough service to me, until now. Impressive stuff. The only downside with the account is that you only get 10gig of download. Now, that may sound like a lot, but I get through that fast.

The program feels like a native Mac OS X application, and it’s written in Cocoa. It’s reasonably fast to search, and the user interface is easy to learn. The same goes for saving links to different newsgroups.

Thumbs up for this one!

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: mac, Mac OS X

Little Snitch makes sure Mac applications doesn’t call home

October 13, 2003 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

Little Snitch keeps you covered

Use Little Snitch to monitor what developers of programs sends home. Then you can stop that specific traffic. More and more programs phone home with information to the software company. Sometimes it’s harmless, like checking if a newer version is available, but sometimes they also send data like serial numbers and your registration information. So is there a way for you to control what programs can do? Yes, there is! There’s an excellent program called Little Snitch that monitors all communication from applications on your Mac OS X machine and asks you if the information is allowed to be sent over the internet.
Great stuff! And you can tell the program to remember settings so you can allow regular communications to get through.

Filed Under: Computers, Macintosh Tagged With: Apple, mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh

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