Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive techniques I can find for remoteoperating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is the process of transmitting packets Read more…
ICloud keychain is an excellent feature in osx mavericks and ios7.To enable iCloud keychain on iPhone and ipad: class=”alert alert-success”>If you have iOS < 7.0.3 Install iOS 7.0.3 [preferences > general > software update] As part of the iOS 7.0.3 setup you will be asked to add a passcode if Read more…
With the release of the ios7 developer preview come a lot of significant changes. one of the things ive noticed is that, at first, spotlight appears to be gone. its not. its still there, you used to get to spotlight by swiping to the screen that was left of the Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default notification sound for the osx notification centre. firstly, there are a couple of rules: 1) the file has to be an AIFF file 2) the file cant be longer than 2 seconds once you have a suitable file (or have Read more…
This post will show you how to disable the osx notification center. the notification center on osx is a good idea, but I personally dont ever use it, so I figured that it was time to disable it, like the other osx features that I dont use to disable the Read more…
Ive been using google plus a lot more recently. I think facebook has become overburdened with marketeering. one thing that I did notice however was that I was being bombarded with notifications (like Facebook does by default too) if someone replied to a comment that I made then id get Read more…
This tip will show you a multitouch gesture to get rid of a single notification center notification! when a notification appears, move your mouse pointer till its on top of the notification. swipe to the right with two fingers the notification will disappear!
This post will show you how to change osx mountain lions new notification center background image. 1) open finder 2) goto /System/Library/CoreServices 3) right click on notification center.app 3) click on show package contents 4) go into the Contents/Resources folder 5) replace the file linen.tiff with the tiff of your Read more…
This post will show you how to hide the notifications in osx mountain lion. open the notification center [click on the icon in the top right, next to the spotlight magnifying glass] scroll the page down. it will reveal an on/off radiobutton slider thing. turn notifications off.
This one is useful if you use a mac and an iphone. i like my reminders on my phone, I like having them synced to my mac. i dont like getting beeped at ten times when I have something to be reminded about. once is enough. to turn off the Read more…
The interwebs are all a-tweet with the news of osx mountain lion. it will bring with it a few things that I had pointed out for osx lion, most notable are airplay mirroring for your desktop, notes from the ipad, reminders from the ipad, imessage and notification center :D there Read more…
This will show you how to get a cool itunes ‘now playing’ notification in your dock open terminal.app type: defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE killall -9 Dock this will enable the setting and the next time you play something in itunes it will show you with a neat popup Read more…
Ok, so ive been using osx lion and ios5 since they launched. ios5 is nice, notification center and imessage are fantastic. airplay mirroring is an excellent idea too. now, if osx lion had airplay mirroring it would be awesome, I wouldnt have to plug my macbook pro into the telly. Read more…
This will show you how to change order of apps in iphone or ipad notification center for groups of apps in your ipad or iphone notification center. It helps when you have lots of apps that send lots of notifications and you only want the important ones on top. goto Read more…
This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…
fairly un eventful. as per. notable improvements / bug fixes: Application Firewall CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2801 Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8 Impact: Certain rules in the Application Firewall may become inactive after restart Description: A timing issue in the Application Firewall may cause certain rules to Read more…