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Hidden secret apps of CoreServices

by Erica Sadun (Jan 13th, 2012)

Nestled within the bosom of your Mac's system folder lie many powerful and curious applications. Not intended for direct access, the denizens of the CoreServices directory work as clients for other OS apps such as System Preferences or Safari. There are several CoreServices apps we use often at ...

Mac 101: Using Keychain Access to remember the password you forgot

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2011)

One of the unsung joys of being a Mac consultant is getting emails from clients with problems that aren't critical enough warrant a billable office visit but still need attention. This morning, I heard from client who needed to add two Macs onto the office AirPort network but couldn't remember ...

iPhone passcode bypassed by security researchers

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2011)

A group of German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology report that they've cracked the iPhone's keychain system, allowing access to the passwords saved on any phone in just six minutes. By jailbreaking the target phone and installing an SSH app on it, the hackers ...

Mac 101: Securing your passwords after the Gawker breach

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2010)

Thanks to questionable security practices at Gawker Media (publishing parent of many high-profile websites including Gizmodo and Lifehacker), a number of people are busy scrambling to change their passwords on a lot of different sites today. Gawker stored encrypted passwords on its servers instead ...

msmtp, a free tool to send email from Terminal

by TJ Luoma (May 4th, 2010)

I fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several "Why don't you use use XYZ instead?" replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail. But one suggestion was to use msmtp, and that turned out to be the golden ...

iPhone icons in felt keychain form

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2010)

Unfortunately these guys are already sold out (though maybe there'll be more soon), but I'm still posting them here just to gaze on their awesomeness -- Etsy user Rabbitrampage put together these six iPhone icon keychains (well, five iPhone and one Finder) out of felt, thread, and fiber fill. I ...

Mel Martin's Friday with Snow Leopard: few glitches, much joy

by Mel Martin (Aug 28th, 2009)

It was pretty quiet at the ole' Apple Store here in Tucson. I got there just at ten, and while there were stanchions to organize the crowd, they weren't needed and just sat off to the side looking lonely. There were plenty of people in the store, and about half were buying Snow Leopard. Supplies ...

Ask TUAW: Syncing notes, iLife '09, iTunes downloads, keychains and more

by Chris Ullrich (Aug 26th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about syncing notes, iLife '09, iTunes downloads, the importance of keychains and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the ...

Ask TUAW: More migration, expanding Apple's Dictionary, syncing iPhone notes, and more

by Mat Lu (Aug 19th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column! This time we've got more questions on migrating user data when upgrading to Snow Leopard, expanding Apple's built-in Dictionary application, accessing iPhone notes without Mail.app, and more. As always, your suggestions and ...

1Password 2.9 and the Agile Keychain

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 9th, 2008)

We may have mentioned it one or two (dozen) times, but 1Password is a great solution for securely managing passwords, credit cards and notes on a Mac (and recently the iPhone). If you're a 1Password fan, be sure to check out the 2.9 release from last weekend; it has a pretty huge new feature. For ...

Mac 101: Retrieve your Keychain passwords

by Cory Bohon (Sep 25th, 2008)

Have you forgotten a password to a website, email account, or other password? If you use Mac OS X's Keychain, chances are that your password can be easily retrieved. First off, open Keychain Access.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/). Once there, scroll through the list of keys until you ...

1Password 2.6.5 released

by Cory Bohon (Jun 26th, 2008)

Agile Web Solutions has updated their 1Password product with support for 4 new browsers and better support for the newly released Firefox 3. 1Password now works on the following web-browsing applications: Safari 4 (Developer Preview), DEVONagent 2.3.1, latest OmniWeb, and Flock 2 beta. In addition ...

Mac 101: Retrieve lost passwords

by Dave Caolo (May 21st, 2008)

Everyone eventually forgets a password or two. It's OK, don't be ashamed. Even your friends at TUAW have committed this error. Honestly. Ivan at CreativeBits offers a simple way to reveal a forgotten password with Mac OS X's Keychain Access application. You'll find it in your Utilities folder (which ...

Login & Keychain Update 1.0

by Scott McNulty (Oct 27th, 2007)

Leopard users, you have your first OS update waiting for you. The Login & Keychain Update 1.0 fixes a couple of issues with logging in and Keychain (shocking, yes?). According to the Apple documentation it corrects issues with the following, and I quote: Logging in with an account ...

Secure your Mac: Eikon biometric security

by Mat Lu (Sep 25th, 2007)

TUAW has lately been trying to help you Secure Your Mac, and while a few options have been available, biometric security is one area in which the Mac has seemed to lag behind the Windows side. Now UPEK has released a preview of the Mac version of their Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The software ...