Archive for December, 2009

Mighty Mouse Unleashed!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

If you have been wondering what more you can do with that shiny new Mighty Mouse then get ready. MagicPrefs, from Vlad Alexa allows you to do the following:

- It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.
- Touch Sensitivity implements a single point control for a number of factors impacting the algorithms of the taps, swipes, pinche and other gestures.
- Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum mouse speed by a extra 200%.
- Also featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees fingers.

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Background Checks? There’s an App for That!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Apple’s App store is a veritable wild west movie of products; business, pleasure, pleasure disguised to look like business, useful tools that are free and do-nothing apps that cost $999.99.

Beenverified.com has released a “free” app that allows you to run background checks right from your iPhone. While this isn’t a new idea, the app is well designed and you get three free searches a week. Since it’s just been released, you can only run one search at a time due to high server demand, but the searches are accurate and in-depth. It was able to produce not only basic information about those of us that have tried it, but also gave a complete histories of houses, including past owners, past occupants and the house’s current market value, amongst other things!

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MergeSafBookmarks Now Open Sourced

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

318 has open sourced our mergeSafBookmarks python script. This tool can read in a pair of property lists and merge them into a single resultant bookmarks file for Safari. This takes a lot of the work out of pushing bookmarks to existing users as part of your deployment. You can find it here:

http://mergebookmarks.sourceforge.net

Note: The script also looks at existing bookmarks and doesn’t merge in duplicates.

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Xsan 2.2.1

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Xsan 2.2.1 has been released. Updates include:

  1. Improved filesystem reliability
  2. Improved cvfsck (the Xsan filesystem repair tool)
  3. Resolves QuickTime reporting “invalid public movie atom found” on playback
  4. Eliminates “An unknown disk has been inserted” message when mounting Xsan volumes (occurs in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only)

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318 Open Sources the ASR Setup Tool

Monday, December 14th, 2009

318 has decided to open source our ASR Setup Tool under GPLv3. The tool can now be found at http://asrsetup.sourceforge.net. The ASR Setup Tool is built as a wrapper for the asr command line suite from Apple. The description from SourceForge:

Developed by 318 Inc., ASR Setup Toll is an application for setting up Apple Software Restore (“ASR”). In the context of the ASR Setup Tool, ASR is used for setting up a multicast stream that can then be leveraged for imaging Mac OS X computers.

We hope you enjoy!

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Screen Shots & ARD

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

For what it’s worth, we take ours from the command line. It helps keep proper track of the names screens. Simply open up a terminal window on a remote server via Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) and run the following command:

sleep 3; screencapture -iw ~/Desktop/filename.png

When you run that full string as a command you’ll have 3 seconds after hitting enter to highlight your target window, at which point your cursor will switch to the photo in window selection mode. Alternatively, you can run:

sleep 3; screencapture -iwc

Which will capture the picture to the remote machines clipboard (and can then be copied via ARD, and opened in Preview (File->new from clipboard).

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Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Using the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry means that your Blackberry users can keep using the mobile platform that they love, with Google Apps. The Google Apps Connector allows users to access mail, calendar and contacts using the built-in applications for doing so rather than needing a 3rd party application. The Google Apps Connector plugs into BlackBerry Enterprise Server and connects from your organization to Google, handing off the traffic destined to handhelds through Research In Motion in much the same way that Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange works.

The 1.5 version of the Google Apps connector for Blackberry has now been released. This update brings maturity, additional capacity and overall performance enhancements. But most importantly, it can be run on 64-bit operating systems. You can also now use BlackBerry Professional with the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

If your organization is considering a move to Google Apps, contact 318 now and we can help to plan the transition; whether from Exchange or Lotus Notes or even good ‘ole postfix, 318 is here to help!

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OmniGraffle Tips & Tricks

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Here are some great OmniGraffle Tips and Tricks!

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