Archive : Mac OS X

RSS has changed the way content is consumed on the web. Almost every website worth it’s salt, and all blogs, including Geeky Ninja, use an RSS feed to distribute their content to the readers. Using an RSS reader Google Reader is arguably the best and the most famous RSS reader around. The only...

Most applications on OS X are distributed using either a .DMG disk image file or a .pkg installer. Installing using a DMG is the easiest. Just drag the application from the mounted image to the Applications folder and you’re done. The .pkg installer, on the other hand, works like a traditional...

Cisco’s VPN solution are quite popular in the enterprise market and a lot of companies use them to provide their employees access to the company’s networks and resources when the employees are not onsite. Most of these companies use the default Cisco client which Cisco supplies with a couple...

I’ve been using an OS X Leopard (That’s 10.5) machine at work since the last few days for a project that I’m working on. I’ve been a Unix user for a long time so I’m pretty comfortable with the Unix side of OS X including the file system and the BSD underpinnings. For those who haven’t used...

Twitterrific for iPhone just updated to version 2.0 (iTunes Link) and I’m already in love with it. I’ve been a long time twitterrific user but that was mostly because of two reasons. The first reason was that it was free (with advertisements) and the second reason was that I liked the clean...

My sister lost her iPhone a couple of days back and with that all her contacts, notes and calender entries that she had painstakingly stored on the device. Her only hope of getting all that important data back was the backup that she had taken a couple of days earlier and she asked me to help her out. This...