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Tonight Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce from PaulDotCom Security Weekly talk to us about Mac security, wireless security, and their new book on the Linksys WRT54G.
Links mentioned:
Paul Dot Com Security Weekly
OpenWrt
Paul’s Delicious links to many many WRT goodies
Hijacking a Macbook in 60 seconds or less (Washington Post article)
Looks like Apple has updated the uber cool iPod shuffle line to add more color to it than just the silver. You can now get them in Orange, Blue, Green, Pink and the Original Silver.
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Tonight Jonathan Cost from ThinkMac.net and the Mac Tips Daily Podcasts co-hosts with me. We talk about our favorite Mac News, Fix-it, Forum, podcasts and books. Lot’s of links in this show.
Don’t miss this coming Wednesdays Typical Mac User podcast with guest Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce from PaulDotCom Security Weekly. You will love this show all about security.
Links mentioned:
Mac News Sites
Macintosh News
Mac360.com
MacWorld
Mac Support Sites
iFixit
Maxfixit.com
O’Reilly Mac Dev Center
Mac Geekery
Macosx.com
TheXLab.com
OSXFaq.com
Mac 101
Mac Support documents via RSS
Mac Forums
Mac360.com
Apple Discussions
ehMac
MacCast Forums
Podcasts
Freemacblog.com
Macnotables.com
Macvoices.com
Mac Review Cast
The Mac Attack
Tech Night Owl LIVE
MacTips Daily
Maccast
MacObservers MacGeekGab
Mac Round Table
Mac Break Weekly
Mac OS Ken
Screencast On Line
Books
by: Matt Beckwith , Associate Editor
I’ve played the guitar since high school and started dabbling with “home recording” more than a decade ago. My first piece of recording hardware was a a Yamaha MT120s, a state-of-the-art, 4-track recorder tape recorder. Okay, not so state-of-the-art, but I sure thought it was. Finally, I could record a drum part from my synthesizer and then play it back and record my bass and then guitar parts. I felt like a superstar!
Then, several years ago, I decided to go high-tech and, with the help of a computer-geek-musician friend, built a computer specifically for audio recording. I didn’t know any better so I went with Windows 98. After test driving a few audio recording programs including CakeWalk, CakeWalk Sonar and Cubase I eventually settled on eMagic’s Logic, version 4.0. With a brand new digital mixer, a Roland VM3100 Pro designed to work specifically with Logic and a couple of Roland DS50 monitors I was ready to rock!
I made this quick You Tube Video because some folks thought it was not true. I installed Vista Business on to my machine. The install was very quick 37 minutes. It would not let me upgrade from Window BETA Ultimate, so I had to do a clean install.
It’s Apple “Old-School” for me. Listener John from New York was nice enough to send me his entire Apple Newton set up as a gift. Thanks John. I’ll be blogging more about it after I figure the thing out, but it’s fun for a “pretty resent switcher” like me to see the Newton. I’ll
report more. If any of you have any neat Netwon sites, software or a way to make it work with wi-fi (I’m I dreaming), write a comment to tis post. I know what I’m doing this weekend now.
As a bonus I got some old school Apple stickers and Netwon stickers. How awesome is that ?
Ever since Apple removed the iSight from the Apple On Line Store, prices for the iSight have hit the roof. Cursory check of EBay today found the most current bid was $243.00. Leave it to Apple to make a product that even gains in popularity and price after it’s discontinued.
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Show Notes
Terminal command to make icons translucent when they are hidden: defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool yes
If you are using broadband on the road like EVDO, or even in your home, you can boost your speeds by applying one simple UNIX command that changes the TPCU receive buffer.
Disclaimer: Try at your own risk!
Open Terminal and type
%sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 then enter
To go back to the original settings open terminal and type
%sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=32768 then enter
I did this on my Verizon EVDO card and saw an immediate improvement on my dowload speed. (see below)
Before applying the tweak
After the tweak
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