Mac Terminal Lookup IP or Domain Geographical
From time-to-time I need to find the geographic location of any IP address or its domain name. It’s quickest for me to do this from the Mac Terminal. Here’s a shortcut you can set up to make it really easy to get the GEOIP data for a domain name or IP...
Disable Android File Transfer from starting automatically
If you’re an Android device owner with a Mac, chances are you’ve installed the rather rudimentary app called Android File Transfer. This app gets one useful job done, namely to transfer files between Mac and Android. Yet, for many of us it’s a...
Blocking covert access to Mac mic and camera
Here’s a free and easy (software based) way to block microphone and camera activation on your mac computer.
Force Google Chrome to use Mac OS X system print dialogue
if you’re reading this post, you’re likely fed up with Chrome hi-jacking your printing experience on OS X. Personally, every time I “print” something from Chrome, I want to use the OS X interface. That’s because I very rarely print to a...
Taming the beast within — Review of AppTamer
For years it’s driven me a tad crazy that a premium computer (i.e. a $2500+ high-end MacBook Pro) with a decent Unix based operating system (i.e. OS X) is so readily brought to its knees by a some feral app that starts pounding the CPU into a “100%+...
Fixing xmlrpc.php security issues for desktop blog applications
Some hosting environments don’t allow access to the xmlrpc.php, which is necessary for Mac desktop blogging applications to work with WordPress sites. These instructions will fix this connection issue, in many instances.
Issues with automatic updates on localhost WordPress
Having trouble installing plug-ins, themes, and WordPress core updates on a localhost WordPress instance? Here’s the most likely cause and solution.
Fixing Facebook layout in a Fluid.app SSB
If you use Fluid.app as an SSB (site specific browser) for Facebook, on OS X 10.10.x, you may have noticed some display issues. Here’s how to fix them.
Edit WHOIS server list in Network Utilities
Here’s a quick and relatively easy way to add new servers to the OS X Network Utilities WHOIS lookup server list.