Record Share Combine with Gawker

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Ever wanted to make a stop motion movie in which you were the subject? Well now with Gawker, the time-lapse application that makes movies with your web cam, you can, and with the tagline “Let your computer do the gawking.” it doesn’t leave much to the imagination  Other benefits of Gawker include the fact that [...]

Setting Up SPF Records in CPanel, WHM, and Namecheap

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren’t valid mail relays for your domain.

SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain zone [...]

How-to Secure Erase Files from Your Hard Drive in OSX

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Having recently read the following blog entry “Halloween Special: Secure Erase” about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple’s latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not [...]

Port Forwarding in OSX with SSH Tunnel Manager

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

When you are stuck behind a corporate firewall, it can seem like the end of the world. hwoever, if you can SSH out, then all is not lost. Using port foorarding and SSH tunnels you can acheive pretty much anything you need. In this article we run through how to set up and use SSH [...]

MacLockPick: Will Your Mac & OSX Be Safe Ever Again?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

MacLockPick is a USB flash key based application designed to take advantage of a Mac keychains default open status and other clear text data on a host computer to perform a quick and data collection for further analysis offsite. The primary aim of the device is to operate in as fast a time as [...]

Setup Automatic Login for SSH in WHM/CPanel with OSX

Friday, March 7th, 2008

If you run any number of servers and have to login many times a day it can quickly become tiresome if you dont’t want to have to type in your password every time and you don’t want to store this anywhere in the finder or the keychain utility of OSX.
Create Your Public Key & Publishing [...]

The SentrySafe Fire-Proof & Water-Proof Hard Drive

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Recently announced from SentrySafe, and available after December 1st 2007, is the Fire-Proof and Water-Proof USB 2.0 Hard Drive case for Mac and PC. The model comes in 2 hard drive sizes, the smaller is 80GB and is priced at $260 (USD) and the larger is 160GB and priced at $320 (USD).
Target Audience?
The drives [...]

File Access Protection in Mac OSX with FileDefense

Monday, November 12th, 2007

How many layers of Mac security can you have? Well according to SubRosaSoft, who this week (12 Nov ‘07) announced the release of FileDefense, you can have more!
In brief, it is an application that “forms the first line of defense in file access”. It is a set of programs that “provide an easy interface to [...]

How-To Erase Deleted Files and Wipe Free Space in OSX

Monday, November 12th, 2007

So far we have written articles about how to recover accidentally deleted files, how to secure erase data from your mac hard drive and how to import recovered data to applications like Apple Mail. Missing from this equation is an article on how to actually delete or overwrite data that [...]

Create a Hard Drive Copy for Backup, Restore, Recovery or Duplication

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

The ability to create duplicate disk images of a boot device or external hard drive in Mac OSX can be useful for a variety of reasons, not least for backup purposes. There are a range of possible solutions for the task, but by far the easiest one of all is SubRosaSoft’s CopyCatX hard drive duplicate [...]