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…
This post is a combination of previous posts about privacy settings in mac and ios. Safari do not track: Safari gives users the option to enable the ‘do not track’ feature. It’s easy to enable: safari > preferences > privacy > Ask websites not to track me Safari prevent cross-site Read more…
How to enable iCloud password for all sites on iPhone and iPad: ICloud keychain is great. But some sites block the saving of passwords. Fortunately there is a way to force iCloud to remember password for all sites on iPhone and iPad, regardless if they want you to remember the Read more…
This post will show you how to clear internet history and cookies from ios7 safari: goto settings > safari click on ‘clear history’ to get rid of your history click on ‘clear cookies and data’ to remove your session cookies and any assets that are cached by the browser :)
This one confused me for ages. iCloud tabs in safari in iOS. they are a great feature, you can pickup where you left off reading tabs from your mac on your iPhone or iPad. in ios7 they seem a little hidden, and they are quite hard to find. to access Read more…
This is a very cool thing I just found in safari on osx mavericks. if you have your twitter account linked to your os [it asks you the first time you log in to twitter in safari] you will have a section in the sidebar when you open a new Read more…
This is my list of everything that I can get Siri to understand in iOS. I wrote this post entirely using the dictation feature. dictation I’m writing this blog post by dictating to Siri it’s pretty good. but you have to do it in small chunks. you also have to Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default email client in osx. it will let your chosen email client be used for both mailto: links and for the safari share with email feature. the actual setting for the default email client is in mail.app you need an account Read more…
This is an awesome tip that I just stumbled over :) I was trying to view the colour of an element in my site (the background colour of the body tag) in the element inspector all the colours were showing as rgb values. but, if you click on the small Read more…
This is an excellent tweak to make to your osx or linux system open man pages in safari (or firefox or chrome): man pages are great, but they arent the most usable. browsers are far more usable. You can set an enviroment variable in your osx or linux system that Read more…
This post will show you how to enable webGL in safari. Google maps now supports webGL – the rendering is mostly handled by your browser, making the maps much more responsive. to enable the new accelerated maps in safari you need to enable webGL goto safari > preferences goto advanced Read more…
This post will show you how to enable the private browsing mode in safari for ipad and iphone. goto settings > safari in the privacy section there is an option for private browsing. turn it on! now, your safari will be black, and private browsing is on (and it looks Read more…
This post will show you how to get your bookmarks from chrome / firefox / chrome into your ipad or iphone’s safari browser firstly, make sure that you have safari on your computer also make sure you have icloud installed in your pc if you run windows next, open the Read more…
This is a cool tip when you are using finder: in safari / firefox / other browsers you can navigate forwards and backwards by click-and-hold ing on the forward / backward buttons. this also works in finder :D just navigate through a couple of folders, and then click-and-hold on the Read more…
This post will show you how to turn off spell check in safari. You can also turn off auto-correcting using this method. how to disable spellcheck in safari open safari click in a text box or text area (the addressbar will do) goto edit > spelling and grammar untick ‘check Read more…
Adblock is now available for safari on osx. as a browser extension, like chrome and firefox you can get it form safariadblock.com now that safari has adblock and an omnibar its suitable for use as a primary browser. I might even try it!
Safari in mountain lion has a cool new feature – icloud tabs. icloud tabs let you sync your browser tabs between devices, eg you can open a tab in your ipad, and then view it in your iphone or on your mac! to enable icloud tabs on your mac: open Read more…
Safari tab switch with multitouch gesture: on the apple site I found information on the new safari tab switch with multitouch gesture. I thought I’d share it with you incase you dont already know about it, because its a fantactic feature… In safari, on mountain lion and above, you can Read more…
This is an excellent feature of mountain lion. you can send your audio output to airplay enabled devices (apple tv or airplay speakers) to send the audio to an airplay device just alt_click on the volume icon in your task bar. you will see a menu with all the airplay Read more…
This post will show you how to disable smooth scrolling in osx mountain lion. open terminal type defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO smooth crolling will now be disabled!
This post will show you how to re-enable the backspace key to take you back a page in safari 6 on osx mountain lion. firstly, open up terminal then type defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Back “\U232b”
This post will show you how to stop video opening youtube app on iphone and ipad. doing this will let all the youtube links open in safari instead! goto settings > general > restrictions turn youtube off. now, whenever you click a link to a youtube video it will open Read more…
This post will show you how to delete mail in your gmail account from the mail.app in your iphone or ipad without archiving it. 1) make sure your iphone or ipad is setup to get your google mail using exchange 2) goto m.google.com/sync in safari on your iphone or ipad Read more…
You can get the ios style ‘scroll down and release’ or ‘pull to refresh’ feature in google chrome or safari on osx by installing a simple extension. go here https://github.com/weetidy/Pull-to-refresh-for-Chrome-and-Safari and download the file as a zip. the extracted file contains two folders. click on the crx file in the Read more…
This one is pretty cool :) in chrome or safari on osx simply highlight the address you want to find a map for right click the highlighted address click on ‘show address in google maps’
If you have the official twitter app installed on your mac then you can tweet any selected text from chrome or safari with two clicks! select the text you want to tweet. right click on the text click ‘tweet’ :)
This one is cool: Quickly add any url from any app to safari reading list! highlight a url (in the address-bar in chrome or firefox) goto the services menu (appname > services) you will find a link for ‘add to reading list’ click it :) In chrome you can highlight Read more…
How to restore a closed tab in safari on the ipad simply press and hold the + icon that you use to open a new tab. you will see a drop down menu with your recently closed tabs in it.
This short post is about sending a tweet from safari in iOS. on the page you want to tweet about, click the share icon at the bottom then click tweet you will then be presented with the tweet dialog. if you havent configured your twitter account yet then you will Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of the dashboard in osx lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file pirelli.png rename it to pirelli_backup.png copy the image that you want for the dashboard background to the folder and name it pirelli.png find the file mini_pirelli.png rename Read more…
This one is very handy. i like having the status bar in safari because it lets me know the url for a link before I click it. you can enable it by going to view > show status bar or by cmd+/
One of the best features of osx is the built in dictionary and thesaurus. you can open the dictionary (applications > utilities > dictionary) and lookup the definition of any word using the built in dictionary, or even the builtin wikipedia browser! there is, however, a cool way to lookup Read more…
This will show you how to remove the search box from safari and perform your searches from the addressbar, like you do in google chrome its really easy, just go to https://github.com/rs/SafariOmnibar and download their installer.
iPad screen flicker fix: My iPad screen started flickering randomly one day. It would flicker when I was scrolling in safari, or when I was playing a game. It wasn’t a major flicker, but it was notice-able. The areas that were meant to be white went darker. There were horizontal Read more…
Syncing your iphone or ipad with google: Here are the detailed instructions on syncing your iphone or ipad with google gmail calendar and contacts. After doing this you will have all your google contacts on your iphone or ipad, and all your google calendars on your iphone (or your ipod Read more…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…
i have used xmarks for a good while now. it used to be called foxmarks. it basically keeps a list of your bookmarks on their server and syncs them with your browser. not impressive if oyu only have one computer and use one browser, but when you use 5 computers Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…