Keeping your Mac locked down: a Mac OS X security primer: Page 1 Even with all of those extra measures, no system is immune to malware, worms, or viruses. Some of the measures described above would prevent another Leap-A or Opener from spreading too widely, but until every hole is closed and every bug is eliminated, new threat vectors will arise. (In other words, forever.) Given the sheer pervasiveness of Microsoft Office in the Mac universe, it's impossible to ignore the specific threat of macro viruses. While they can't really do any significant damage on the Mac side—especially with the recent demise of VBA scripting—they can be passed along to fellow Office users on, shall we say, other platforms. And guess what happens then? If it bothers you that we have to take steps to protect ourselves from evil that can't really harm us, consider it a non-deductible form of charity towards our well-meaning but misguided fellow computer users. The Mac OS X version of ClamAV Always more to do This isn't meant to be a comprehensive list by any means.
Removing Your Personal Information From Google As our culture continues to move online, personal information about us that previously may have only been seen by our friends and family is increasingly shared in public spaces on the internet. What can you do if you search for your name on Google and find information you’d rather keep private? Or find yourself or home in Google Street View and want it blurred? NOTE: If you want content removed from Google that’s located on a site that you do own, see Removing Pages from Google: A Comprehensive Guide for Content Owners for details. Why Google Generally Won’t Remove Your Personal Information Google’s core product, web search, simply indexes pages on the web and makes them available to searchers. Google makes information available from more than web pages though. Keeping Private Information From Search Engines Ideally, private information about you won’t show up in Google at all. With Facebook, for instance, go to “Account > Privacy Settings.” To speed up the removal process:
12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known : iSmashPhone Follow Us on Pinterest! Update: When you’re done reading this, check out 8 More iPhone Tricks You Might Not Know. Whether you’re an iPhone rookie or a weathered pro, take a look at these quick-and-easy iPhone tips and tricks which not only save you time, but ease your overall iPhone experience. (These items are listed in no particular order.) Scroll to Top of Page - In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”, which has the time, service bars, and battery. Continue reading for the next 11 useful iPhone tips and tricks. 2. When typing a URL in Safari, you don’t have to type the “www” or the “.com”.For instance, for www.cnn.com just type “cnn” in the URL box. 3. Hold down the “.com” key for “.net, .edu, .org” keys. 4. Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type Espa√±a with the “√±” simply hold “n” and simply slide/release to the appropriate character). 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. See also:
How to Stop Facebook from Sharing Your Information With Third Parties I went through each individual application on my FB and, much to my surprise, Gawker Media apps were by far the worst offenders when it comes to privacy violations. The Gawker apps access far more information than any other application on my list, about both me and my friends. Worse, unlike any other application, it actually DID access my information. All of the following are required to use Gawker Media apps on Facebook: Access my basic information Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone. Required Access my profile information Likes, Music, TV, Movies, Books, Quotes, About Me, Activities, Interests, Groups, Events, Notes, Birthday, Hometown, Current City, Website, Religious and Political Views, Education History, Work History and Facebook Status Online Presence Access my family & relationships Significant Other and Relationship Details and Family Members and Relationship Status Access my photos and videos
Trois outils pour vous aider à faire du contenu unique sur Internet Tout le monde le sait pour émerger dans les résultats des moteurs de recherche il faut de la pertinence mais aussi de l’unicité. Produire du contenu unique est essentiel et parfois il faut s’aider de quelques outils pour être encore plus différent dans la rédaction de votre article. Voici trois petits outils à mettre en favori et à utiliser selon le besoin. Le premier est un dictionnaire de synonymes proposé par le laboratoire CRISCO de l’Université de Caen. Le second outil est un outil pour calculer le taux de similarité (appelé aussi duplicate content) entre deux textes (votre source par exemple et votre article). Le troisième outil est le plus simple, c’est un calculateur de nombre de mots. Avec ces trois outils vous voilà armé pour écrire du beau contenu unique et original pour vos lecteurs et les moteurs de recherche!
Top 10: Top 10 Mac utilities - Lifehacker SExpand Click to viewIt's not always the full-blown software applications that make the biggest difference on your computer; often it's the small do-one-thing-well utilities that enhance our computing experience that much more.P Today's top 10 covers the system utilities that add extra polish and convenience to your Mac's working environment. Most (but not all) of these little suckers are free, many live in your Mac's System Preferences pane and on the menubar, and all of them greatly enhance your overall Mac experience.P Top 10 Mac utilitiesP Honorable mentions include InstantShot, Nocturne, Google Desktop, Do Something When, smcFanControl, MacFUSE , and VirtueDesktops.P What would have been on your list?
Pearltrees : la bibliothèque aux 100 milles curateurs Lorsqu’on lui demande quel est son parcours, il pousse un soupir “j’ai fait pas mal de choses” : ingénieur, chercheur en sociologie, consultant en stratégie dans les médias…. L’idée de Pearltrees lui serait venue alors qu’il publiait un papier dans la revue française de sciences politiques en 2006 sur la théorie des réseaux mais qui “n’avait rien à voir avec le web”. A l’époque, on se demandait si des initiatives comme Wikipedia et Youtube allaient fonctionner. Deux ans plus tard, Pearltrees, est “un petit projet dans un appart en 2008”. Il part de ce constat simple : il y a énormément de contenu sur le Web, comment laisser l’internaute se l’approprier en l’organisant à sa guise ? Une bibliothèque augmentée Tout d’abord Pearltrees permet d’organiser le contenu que vous visitez sur le Web. Le pearltrees de TedX Paris Rajoutez y une pointe de curation et l’on obtient cette nouveauté qui fait mouche. « Organiser le contenu comme une bibliothèque, mais ouverte .»
7 outils indispensables de ton PC que tu n'utilises jamais Bon, j'exagère, tu en utilises sûrement au moins un. Et si tu es un bon élève, peut-être plusieurs. Mais pas tous, ou pas régulièrement. Sans compter que bon nombre de tes proches n'en ont peut-être jamais entendu parler. Et pourtant... ces quelques outils peuvent te sauver la vie... enfin, au moins ton PC et tes données, c'est déjà pas mal. (n.b. : les exemples cités et les captures d'écran ci-dessous concernent Windows, mais la plupart de ces outils sont aussi disponibles sous Mac et Linux. Programme de sauvegarde Imagines la scène : tu veux allumer ton PC un matin, pour terminer ce super rapport qui t'a demandé des heures de travail, consulter ta collection de photos de soirées que tu accumules depuis des mois, ou finir la partie de ton jeu préféré où tu as enfin atteint le dernier niveau... et là... plus rien, ton PC ne démarre plus, le disque dur est mort. Assez de cette vision d'horreur ? Tu n'avais qu'à utiliser le programme de sauvegarde ! Désinstalleur Fais le ménage ! Défragmenteur
50 iPhone Apps for Web Designers & Developers « AppStorm With a wonderful form factor, design, and functionality, the iPhone is a fantastic gadget for web designers and developers alike. You’ll be pleased to know that a huge range of software is available to make the iPhone (or iPod touch) a perfect companion. We’ve hand-picked a selection of 50 fantastic applications. To give you a taste, the software covered will allow you to choose a color scheme, detect a font, update your website, manage a database, plan your to-do list, track time, bill a client, write a blog post, or view website statistics. You’ll be amazed at what an iPhone is capable of! Color Cliq Cliq CliqCliq – A gorgeous interface with photo extraction, palette saving and email support. Fonts & Typography FontShuffle (App Store) – A simple app for browsing and searching a database of different fonts.WhatTheFont – Take a picture of a font and have it uploaded to the web and analyzed in seconds to discover it’s name. Coding & Development FTP On The Go Databases iMy Organize & Plan OmniFocus
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Hacker Factor: Gender Guesser The words you use can disclose identifying features. This tool attempts to determine an author's gender based on the words used. Submitted text is evaluated based on two types of writing: formal and informal. About Gender Guesser In 2003, a team of researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Bar-Ilan University in Israel (Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni) developed a method to estimate gender from word usage. A simplified version of this work was implemented as the Gender Genie. This Gender Guesser system is heavily based on the Gender Genie. (Oh yeah, and Gender Guesser is completely implemented in JavaScript. A few quick notes: The system generates a simple estimate (profiling). Future Hacker Factor is currently developing a variation of this system that can estimate an authors age, type of English used (for narrowing down nationality), and whether the speaker uses English as a second language.
Todd Lambert » Free Software Some of my favorite software that is free You get what you pay for – although not always! I am what many would consider a power mac user. Not one that uses a Powermac, but one who uses Macs religiously and tends to know a lot about them. In all that time I have used thousands of different types of software. Today, I will be listing some of the Free Software that I have found and use and that in most cases beats out non-free software for just being best in the field. WhatSize The first application I am going to highlight is called “WhatSize” and it is one of my favorites. This application is nearly identical to the non-free software called Omni DiskSweeper except that the price is much better; Free! RSS Menu This is one that I use on a daily basis and I love it for its simplicity as well. Serverskine This is a newer application in my list but one that I am quickly finding hard to live without. Gawker There you have it, four applications that are free, yet immensly valuable.