June 5, 2007

TMUP81: Don’t mess with my Firewall

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 4:21 pm

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Links Mentioned

Free Backup 3.1 for OS9

Ben from the MacMenia Podcast

Dialog Director

George Starcher from the In The Trenches Podcast

What is a Byte?

What is a Bit?

iPod Camera Connector compatiobility

Raw image format

OS X Firewalls

My recommendations

Turning on Firewall on OS X

Apple site discussion about firewall settings

Pauldotcom Security Weekly

Simple instructions to set up firewall rules for OS X

Recommendations:

Do not block all TCP or UDP traffic.
Enable “Stealth Mode” in “Advanced Options.”
Disable (uncheck) the following firewall ports:
o “Personal File Sharing”
o “Windows Sharing”
o “Personal Web Sharing”
o “Remote Login ‚Äì SSH”
o “FTP Access”
o “Apple Remote Desktop”
o “Remote Apple Events”
o “Printer Sharing”

Firewall tunning according to Wikipedia (very geeky)

FlyingButtress Firewall GUI

WaterRoof Firewall configuration (good program but use with care)

Using an External monnitor with a MacBook courtesy of Living Digitally

  • http://AnotherGreatShow DonQ

    You’ve said several time in various podcasts that your are taking more and more pics using RAW image format. I recently purchased a new camera (Panasonic Limux FZ50). I specifically chose this camera for i ability to take pics in RAW. After my first time use of the camera I connected it to Macbook Pro and iPhoto kicked in and prompted me to copy the pics over. However, I was surprised to see that I received several error messages about how the files could not be read. It seems that iPhoto does not recognize the format. Is this truly the case or am I simply doing something wrong. If it can’t read RAW what inexpensive program should I use?

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    DonQ I have been able to bring in and edit RAW(NEF)from my Nikon no problem so I don’t know what it could be. Never the less. Try Graphic Converterhttp://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/263. It is very powerful. You can try it for free and buy it for $30 bucks. I talk about it next week on the podcast but try it now and let me know. If any others reading this have suggestions for DonQ, let’s hear’m here.

  • DonQ

    OK I will look into this product. By the way I found this entry at a website:

    http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Hu1F

    Which basically states that iPhoto does not support the FZ50 use of RAW. Why I’m really not sure. I wonder if any of your TMUP listeners happen to have a complete list of what cameras iPhoto does / does not support. I’m sure someone may ask this question again for a different camera.

    As always- Muchas Gracias Por Toda La Ayuda!!

  • DonQ

    Here is a link to cameras that are compatible with IPhoto Raw.

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300884

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Excellent information DonQ. Thanks for posting it here.

 

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