David Bogdan sent in our Dumb Question for this week. He wrote: Hello Bart and Allison, Hello from Japan. It’s been awhile, though I’ve been listening to you on podcasts and it sounds like the two of you are doing well. I wanted to ask another dumb question regarding security. Recently, I’ve been getting occasional […]
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How to Stop Safari Offering Push Notifications
Many websites recently have started causing Safari to pop up a window offering to send you push notifications from that site. This is a new feature in Safari that allows websites to do this, and it’s turned on by default. If you like it, great! If you find it annoying and intrusive, then follow these […]
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After the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability was exposed, Donald Burr of otakunopodcast wrote up instructions on how to verify the version of OpenSSL we’re running, and how to update it. Here are his instructions: If you run the command: port deps openvpn it will show you what other MacPorts ports that openvpn depends on. If openssl […]
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I have been running a VPN server on my Mac for a while now, per Donald Burr’s most awesome instructions here. One day while out and about I tried to use my VPN from my Mac and iOS devices only to discover that while I could connect and get an IP address internal to my […]
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If you’ve installed a VPN server on your Mac using Donald Burr’s most awesome instructions but for some reason want to uninstall the server, here’s an uninstall script along with text-based instructions from Donald: Download the script here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/169813/uninstall-openvpn Find the place where you downloaded the script (probably in your Downloads folder), keep a finder […]
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The Problem to be Solved Apple’s Contacts application can easily create address labels, but it’s harder to create a bunch of labels of the SAME address for return address labels. Basically we’re going to replicate your home address card as many times as you have on one sheet of labels, and then print them all […]
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Problem to be Solved You’ve got a great backup of your OSX computer, and you need to get something back from the Library folder, say something in the Application Support subfolder. These instructions will show you how to do unhide the User Library folder on the external drive or even on a second Mac. Credit […]
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What Problem are We Trying to Solve? If you have a machine that’s got a bad monitor or locked up in some way that you can’t directly control it, you might have some success if you could connect in via the Terminal. In these few quick steps we’ll show you how to set up the […]
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Download Audacity You’ve got your recording finished and realized there’s a hum or hiss on one half of the recording. This quick tutorial will walk you how to import your audio into Audacity, split the stereo track and remove the noise. Start by downloading Audacity from audacityteam.org/download for your operating system (Mac, Linux or Windows). […]
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Introduction Bart Busschots of http://bartb.ie helped me figure out this configuration that so many people are requesting. Bart’s diagram shows the end condition. The screenshots in the tutorial are from an Actiontec router supplied by Verizon running firmware version 40.20.7 in 2013. In this tutorial we’re going to: Turn off Wireless on the Verizon router […]
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