Some very useful and interesting iOS apps for iPhone.
A few very useful iphone apps for Information Technology.
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Running Doom and other games on the Apple Vision Pro?
Could it be possible to run Doom on the Vision Pro? I think yes.
Read MoreUpdate packages on Mac OSX with Homebrew.
How to install and update packages on your Mac OSX Homebrew installation.
Read MoreRunning Linux on the Apple M1 GPU.
Running an Apple M1 GPU on Linux is quite possible right now. This is amazing.
Read MoreApple copied Xerox GUI and why modern games have lost their magic.
There are many people that say Apple invented the computer mouse as well as the windows and icons interface but the Xerox Star computer system from 1981 had that long before the Apple Macintosh computer had desktop icons and a mouse. There was even a demonstration of video conferencing and…
Read MoreA very nice upcoming window manager for Linux. PrismWM.
PrismWM is a very nice window manager for Linux and UNIX. This looks just like the very old Macintosh desktop. I cannot wait to try this out. This would make a very good Ubuntu respin with a pretend Macintosh Classic desktop environment. I always wanted a nice Macintosh Classic desktop…
Read MoreiPhone 6 teardown. A look at the massive battery inside this new phone.
Thoughts on the new Apple SSL vulnerability.
The new Apple SSL vulnerability is a concerning bug in the Apple Macintosh iOS and desktop operating systems. This allows SSL spoofing as it will allow a faked SSL vulnerability to pass as a real one. Apparently it uses ports 1266 & 1267, if you block these with your firewall,…
Read MoreLooking at the Macintosh OSX desktop and the Darwin UNIX operating system.
I am having a quick look at the Macintosh OSX desktop on an Apple Macintosh computer and the interface is very annoying indeed. The Finder does find files; but most of the results are not what you were looking for. And to take a screenshot you have to use quite…
Read MoreApple iPhone 5 fingerprint security broken 24 hours after the German release.
The new fingerprint recognition security on the new iPhone 5 has aready been broken. This attack required quite sophisticated hardware and a high level of knowledge; but this shows that no level of security is infallible. The new phone is getting quite a lot of press attention discussing the ins…
Read MoreUbuntu pushing the Apple-like app store image and Steam for Linux client available.
Ubuntu are really pushing for their Linux distribution to be available on tablets and mobile `phones. They have created an advertisement that is almost a carbon copy of the Apple advertisements. But they are not on an equal footing, the Ubuntu Linux distribution is not used as much as the…
Read MoreRunning Apple Macintosh programs on Linux now a possibility. And a listing of other emulators on Linux.
The new Darling project is a loader for Linux that allows a Linux distribution to run unmodified Macintosh OSX binaries on a Linux system. The GNU Libc and other parts of a Linux distribution need to be patched to allows this to work; but this would mean that a user…
Read MorePirate bay gone and Windows and Macintosh security concerns. Linux wins on that front.
The recent raid that took down the Wikileaks and Piratebay websites could be a sign of things to come. The SOPA and SIPA bills that Congress tried to pass through as well as the ACTA bill are about stopping the sharing of copyrighted material; but other things such as the…
Read MoreDefinition of the kernel versus the operating system. What it is and is not.
The kernel in an operating system is the interface that handles loading drivers and configuring hardware; the operating system that runs on top of the kernel provides a usable interface; i.e a command-line or graphical user interface that the computer operator may use to interface with the computer system and…
Read MoreReboot short film showcasing more technical failures in modern film. Using the Windows CMD on Mac?
There is a new short film out now that has a scene where a character is using an Apple Macintosh computer, yet the terminal window has a Windows command prompt in it? The character is using the Aircrack-ng WIFI cracking utility to crack the passkey for a WIFI network, but…
Read MoreApple iPhone 3gs insides. Have you ever wondered what the parts look like? Now can see.
This is what the insides of an Apple iPhone 3gs look like. This is the motherboard of the iPhone. You can see the Subscriber Identity Module card slot on the right-hand end of the motherboard. Sure, the iPhone 3gs is an older model, but it is interesting to see the…
Read MoreLinux superiour to Windows and Google Android OS on x86. As well as Apple security issues.
Microsoft are adopting Linux on their Azure system. This shows that Linux is more reliable than their own Windows Server product. Microsoft used to run their Hotmail E-Mail service on FreeBSD UNIX servers, they do not use that any-more but Linux still has some life left in it, if…
Read MoreMandrake Linux 9.2. A nice look back at this old distro.
After testing out Mandrake Linux 9.2 in Virtualbox, I am amazed at how fast this Linux distribution is on modern hardware. Sure it is emulated with 512 megabytes of RAM and a 4 gigabyte hard disk in the Virtualbox machine, but 512 megabytes of memory is a lot for such…
Read MoreIT security management very critical in these dangerous times.
With the many security issues that many businesses are dealing with these days, a managed security plan is vital to make sure that private company information is not leaked by malicious software and viruses. The services of managed IT services Melbourne can ensure that your business can run smoothly and…
Read MoreLinux kernel 3.4 gives a good speed boost and Macintosh malware.
The Linux kernel 3.4-rc2 seems to have given Debian quite a speed boost, the performance of my machine, and the boot time seems to have been improved over the 3.3 kernel I was running before. This is a good sign, the Linux kernel needs more speed and performance to make…
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