New To Mac OS? Here Are 30 of the Best Apps Available Evernote Evernote is the undisputed king of note taking apps, and for good reason. It’s simple, organized in a highly intuitive way, and syncs with just about any Web service you can imagine. Since it’s one of the most popular apps in existence, there’s a veritable boatload of browser extensions and add-ons available for it as well. Download now from: Day One 2 Journal ($30) Journals are an age-old tradition — just ask Benjamin Franklin. Purchase now from: Fantastical 2 ($50) Fantastical 2 is the only calendar app you’ll ever need, so long as you’re willing to shell out a cool $50 for it. Pixelmator ($30) Mac users have an incredibly vast selection of excellent photo editing programs, but even against thousands of competitors, Pixelmator stands out as one of the best. Pocket As the name might imply, Pocket is a tool that lets you “pocket” articles, videos, and webpages for later viewing. PDF Expert ($60) Google Reader may be dead and gone, but a proper RSS reader is still a must. Text Wrangler
Home networking explained, Part 5: Setting up a home router Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories section below. It might seem like a daunting task to set up a new home router. But it doesn't have to be if you understand the most common way routers are managed: through the Web interface. The hardest part of using the Web interface is getting to it. Once you have gotten there, the rest, at least most of it, is self-explanatory. Note: Almost all home routers on the market come with an Web interface, which is a Web page from which users can view, manage, and monitor the router's settings and features. In this post, I'll talk about how you can quickly set up any router by accessing its Web interface and manage it from any connected computer or even a tablet or smartphone. Let's start with the basics. 1. A Web browser is a software application designed for retrieving, presenting, and exchanging information resources on the Internet. 2. A. B. C. 3. 1. 2. 4. 5.
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How to Run A Webserver From Your Computer: 8 Steps Edit Article Edited by Doctor It, Keyboard_Cat, Jack Herrick, Nixeagle and 15 others If you have a website too big for a commercial web host or you want to be able to quickly make changes on your website, you may want to try to run your own web server on the computer you are viewing this page from. This guide will tell you home web server basics and not tell you how to work with a particular software. Ad Steps Tips Keep your computer running all the time. Warnings Check with your ISP to make sure you are allowed to have a home server.
17 Hacks Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know About Your iPhone Love them or hate them, you've likely had an iPhone at some point -- and if not, someone you know has one. Probably a lot of someones. And it really isn't a major surprise, what with all they are capable of handling in our day-to-day lives. Phone, email, texting, tweeting, surfing, banking, planning, photography, music...there is so much available out of the box that many of the hidden features are never discovered by most users. We've compiled a list of what we think are the most handy tips and tricks to get even more out of your iPhone -- and some of them may actually astonish you. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Advertisment 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Source : diply
How to Add a Kindle DRM-Removal Plugin to calibre Update: These instructions were updated on 22 August 2013. They worked for me on that day. DRM is the bugaboo of ebooks. A few hours ago I was reading a post on Cult Of Mac. I figured I'd get as far as removing the DRM before being forced to stop. The process is minimally difficult and I'd like to share it with you. Note that these instructions are Windows only, and some details will be different between the various versions of Windows.Note that these instructions were written without the permission or participation of Kovid Goyal, the creator of calibre.These instructions are written in order to assist the average user in protecting their purchases. First Things First You need to download and install these apps on your computer. Calibre is of course the ebook library management tool. Install the apps one at a time (and set up your account with the K4PC app, if you haven't already). Apprentice Alf Got everything installed? UnZip the ZIP file you just downloaded. Yippee!
Indie Box: Let's Bring Our Data Home The first ready-to-use personal server appliance for storing personal data and running indie web applications at home. Made for humans, not just geeks. Pre-installed indie web applications provide functionality such as calendaring, address book management, publishing, sharing, bookmarking, photo and media management and more. Indie Box One eliminates the need to entrust our personal data to big internet companies who often share and use it in ways we don't appreciate. By keeping personal data at home under our own control, Indie Box One lets us cut the cord from the ever-more invasive internet overlords and their monetization schemes and become independent citizens of the internet again. For the first time in history, individuals now produce and collect large amounts of valuable data. Unfortunately, their advertisement-driven Web 2.0 business model is increasingly at odds with our evolving expectations about the management and use of our personal data. Hardware Software Auto-administration
Search operators - Search Help There are different ways to refine your Google searches to be more precise or to expand in new directions. Advanced search Google offers pages designed to help you perform specialized searches. To do an advanced search: In the “Google Search” box, enter your query. At the bottom of the search box, click Tools. Filters After you perform a search, filters appear below the search bar. Books Forums Images Maps News Shopping Short Videos Videos Web Tips: The "Web" filter contains text-based links to websites. Operators To narrow your results in specific ways, you can use special operators in your search. To search for an exact match of a word or phrase: Enter a word or a phrase inside quotes “”. Related results After you click a web result and return back to the search results, you may find more related results added to what was originally generated. Related searches After a search, you find related searches to what you originally searched for. Settings Related resources
15 iPhone Tricks Apple Has Been Hiding From You The ongoing debate between Android and Apple users just got a little more complicated. While both surely have qualities that appeal to all kinds of smartphone users, Apple’s staple characteristic of being more “user-friendly” may or may not be a load of false advertising. With its almost too-simple interface, iPhones have essentially remained the same since their origination. However, with every new edition of this popular device, there also comes a few major and minor updates – many of which we may not even realize exist. Apple engineers may be patting themselves on the back for their progressive shifts in this user-friendly phone, but perhaps they should have a word with the advertising department first. 1. Cult of Mac Ever wish you could listen to your favorite sleepy-time playlist before bed without having to worry about turning off your music in the middle of the night? 2. iMore Instead of sticking to the standard vibration pattern for your text messages, create your own! 3. 4. 5.
How to Share Your Wi-Fi Network with Friends, No Password Typing Required I forget the different protocals, but with multiple of them it is not simply a word. AS in a 64 bit passcode is 31(maybe 62 or soemthing) characters and are letters both caps and lowercase, numbers and a great deal of symbols, and they are generated, so ya it can be like 13ndk(sjJslwqo^1*9918jdoWlslmSnQNsB think of typing that in on your phone, when at your buddies for 10 minutes it would take you the whole 10 mins to type lol Also in addition, it is apples problem that it can not use standardised QR input info not ours.......I mean its all pretty easy to impliment code wise so there are no excuses It's your own fault for buying a gimped locked down product. Your Android-toting friends will appreciate the QR option, and nothing prevents you from writing out the password for the convenience of iOS users.
How to set up a safe and secure Web server Fifteen years ago, you weren't a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most famous is the now-defunct GeoCities, but there were many others (remember Angelfire and Tripod?). These were the days before the "social" Web, before MySpace and Facebook. Instant messaging was in its infancy and creating an online presence required no small familiarity with HTML (though automated Web design programs did exist). Things are certainly different now, but there's still a tremendous amount of value in controlling an actual honest-to-God website rather than relying solely on the social Web to provide your online presence. It's super-easy to open an account at a Web hosting company and start fiddling around there—two excellent Ars reader-recommended Web hosts are A Small Orange and Lithium Hosting—but where's the fun in that? The hardware Faking it with a virtual machine
Introducing ProtonMail Bridge, email encryption for Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail Ever since the day that we first got the idea to create ProtonMail, one of the most enduring challenges has been how to do email security right while simultaneously making encrypted email easy enough to use for normal people. Since our early days working from the CERN cafeteria, we have been working tirelessly to address this specific problem. In the years since, we have made many great strides towards creating usable encrypted email, first with ProtonMail’s webmail interface and then with our award-winning iOS and Android secure email apps. However, one of our goals has always been to bring easy-to-use encrypted email to desktop. The problem is formidable. Desktop systems encompass multiple operating systems with dozens of popular email clients with their own adherents, and virtually none of them natively speak PGP, the email encryption standard upon which ProtonMail is built. Around two years ago, we created a small task force to tackle this challenge. Threat Model
Home networking explained, part 6: Keep your network secure Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories section below. If you were concerned after reading CNET's recent report that most home routers can be easily hacked, I don't blame you. The study did sound ominous, but the good news is that your network is likely far less susceptible than the report suggests. Two things are vital to keeping your network safe: proper settings and prudence. Here are some router and network settings tips that will help keep your home network safe. Before I begin, note that with most routers you'll need to access the Web interface to change the settings. 1. Note that depending on the router, this password will be referred to in the Web interface as either the encryption key, the pass-key, the pre-shared key, or the passphrase. You also need to consider which industry security standards your router supports. 2. 3. Also, you should turn off the UPnP feature. 4. 5.
How Can I Tell What is Listening on a TCP/IP Port in Windows? Whenever an application wants to make itself accessible over the network, it claims a TCP/IP port, which means that port can’t be used by anything else. So if you need to use an in-use port, how do you tell what application is holding it? There’s a number of ways to tell what application has the port locked, but we’ll walk through the built-in way using the command line and Task Manager, and then a great freeware application that does it all in one utility. Use Built-In Tools to See What is Listening on a Port The first step is to use a command-line tool to see what ports are in use, and use a special flag that tells us which port is assigned to each Windows process identifier number. Open up a command prompt and type in the following—you may have to open in Administrator mode to see all processes: netstat -ab | more This will immediately show you a list, although it’s maybe a little complicated. netstat -aon | more Use CurrPorts to View What is Listening Download CurrPorts from nirsoft.net