OS Detection Techniques
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques - Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection…
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques - Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection…
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'…
Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 /…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Im just doing some tidying up on my site - I have the iphone / ipod touch support (which breaks compatibility with safari - ill need to fix that) and…