Archive for the ‘Hint’ Category

FOFA XD key simple setup

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

QT:”
After a battery is inserted, FOFA will beep and go into the Simple Setup. The LED will begin flashing – FOFA now wants to know what number you want it to be assigned to (1 through 6). Press a single number to program the FOFA to that number. FOFA will now flash and “beep back” your choice to confirm what you selected.

http://www.findonefindall.com/fofaXDOMback.pdf

How to Hide Photos on your iPhone and iPad without using Apps

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

http://www.labnol.org/internet/hide-photos-on-iphone/25872/

command line – How can I list files with their absolute path in linux? – Stack Overflow

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

find `pwd` -name .htaccess

or

ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246215/how-can-i-list-files-with-their-absolute-path-in-linux

Generate LAME-encoded audio MP3 from text – Mac OS X Hints

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040926192411975 also, afconvert (which is built in), viz:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26099/is-there-a-way-to-convert-audio-files-in-mac-os-x-or-the-command-line-without-us then push onto iphone wirelessly
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407487,00.asp

say -v Vicki -f a.txt -o a.aiff
afconvert a.aiff -o a.m4a -f m4af

Article: New Gmail Search Operators

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-gmail-search-operators.html

Out of date plug-ins – Google Chrome Help

Sunday, November 25th, 2012

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1181003

Here’s a simple script to accomplish this:

#!/bin/sh -f
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
–allow-outdated-plugins

exact rsync commands to sync the my data directory

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

cd directory-where-DATADIR-is
rsync -av –delete /Volumes/mbg/DATADIR .

Info on VPNs

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.expressvpn.com
http://www.vpn-providers.net
http://www.vpnreviews.com
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205401/3_personal_VPNs_offer_safer_Wi_Fi http://lifehacker.com/5759186/five-best-vpn-service-providers

How do I send encrypted email?

Sunday, October 7th, 2012

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_send_encrypted_email.html
Nice discussion of using gpg

Mac OS X: About Disk Utility’s erase free space feature

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

zeros deleted files
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3680