Email SSL Security Certificates
Sometimes your email server gets a new SSL security certificate, or you have just set up your email account for the first time on this computer. In those cases, you may need to accept & save the email servers SSL […]
HeartBleed is SSL Serious Security problem -but Macs aren’t directly vulnerable
THE BAD NEWS From heartbleed.com The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers […]
Password strength checker
The worst thing about passwords is trying to come up with a new one that is sufficiently complex, yet something you can remember. And how do you know if a password is easily guessed versus being a great password? How […]
Cheap iPhone Talk Text & Data plan $30/month from KittyWireless & Page Plus
Hey, if you are open to saving money with last year’s phone, and some people will be, check this out. It won’t work for the iPhone 5, but it does work really well for the Verizon iPhone 4S. I mentioned […]
How to Disable Sophos AV On-access Scanning
Most Mac users have not even seen a virus in many years. But it could happen. I’ve been trying out Sophos AV for Mac (Free) for some time now in both Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard & Mac OS […]
I’m contributing to the Technical Documentation of CHIRP
I am now a contributing editor of Technical documentation for the CHIRP project. CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your ham radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to […]
Migrate from VirtualBox to Parallels
How to Migrate from VirtualBox to Parallels I have a bunch of VirtualBox VMs that work fine under VBox, and I’d like to use them with Parallels Desktop 8 on Macintosh. Sadly, Parallels is not able to import them as-is, […]
Twitter Spam – How to Revoke Access from Rouge Apps
Did your friends tell you that you sent them Twitter Spam? How could that have happened? Here is how to fix it and regain control of your Twitter account. Change your Twitter password. This the first step. It might be […]
A Better sig for your email, use a linked graphic as a sig for Apple Mail
It is possible to add an attachment as a signature to every outgoing email, but this is not desirable & there is a better way. Why to NOT use an attached graphic as a signature If you always send an […]
How to Change your Email Password & How To Enter your new Password into Apple Mail
It is a good idea to change your email password every now & again. In many ways, control of your email account is the key to a lot of other things, such as recovering a ‘forgotten’ website password. So you […]