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07-03-11 \\ iOS

OmniOutliner for iPad – Outline your thoughts and guide your daily workflow

In no time at all, Omnioutliner integrated itself into my day to day activities. This is another great app by OmniGroup which has become an invaluable tool in my daily workflow.

07-01-11 \\ Themes

Aptana Studio 3 Custom Dark Color Theme

A custom dark color theme for Aptana Studio 3. This is a port of my Aptana 2 theme, with some new updates. Enjoy!

06-28-11 \\ Hacking

Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.5 Released – OSX Support Added

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. OSX support has now been added.

06-26-11 \\ Reviews

Unlock and Decrypt Password Protected PDF files with PDFKey for Mac OSX

PDFKey will unlock, recover and/or decrypt the password/lock mechanism found in PDF files. With a single click, this PDFKey will remove all document copy protection without needing the password.

06-25-11 \\ Reviews

3 PDF Tools to completely replace Adobe Acrobat for your Mac and iOS devices

The only three tools you should need to completely replace Adobe’s overly expensive Acrobat Pro. Everything you will need to read, edit, merge, create, and sign PDF documents.

06-23-11 \\ Guides

AJAX Tutorial: 5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery

This is a great tutorial on using AJAX with jQuery. I haven’t used AJAX in a few months and this was a great all-in-one refresher.

06-20-11 \\ OSX

How to create a bootable USB Flash Drive with UNetBootIn and use it to install Mac OSX, Linux, or any other Operating System

I no longer have a CD drive in my macbook pro, so I wanted to create a bootable USB key in case I ever needed to reinstall the operating system. This method also works great if you want to create a bootable USB Drive to load any other operating system. This method will work on Mac, Windows and Linux systems.

06-19-11 \\ iOS

5 of the most addictive and mind-bending puzzle strategy games for your iPhone and iPad

I’m a huge fan of puzzle games. I feel that they help keep my mind sharp. Here is a a great collection of 5 puzzle games that no iPad or iPhone should be without. They are all games that I play regularly (when I can find the time). Many of these games are low cost, and high return in terms of the difficultly level required to complete them.

06-17-11 \\ OSX

Burn – A Free CD / DVD Burning Utility for Mac OSX

Rather than reviewing some of the newer apps, I wanted to take a few segments and review some of the more essential utilities needed for new Mac users. A feature missing from OSX is the ability to easily and efficiently burn CDs/DVDs. Burn solves that problem.

06-11-11 \\ Hacking

Cracking WEP Security Video Tutorials – Wireless Password Hacking

A series of great video tutorial on cracking the WEP security protocol on wireless networks. Tutorials include methods using Windows 7 and Linux.

06-10-11 \\ News

Permanence – Picking a Server Name

Funny XKCD comic on picking a server name.

06-09-11 \\ Guides

How to make Candybar work with Mac OSX Lion beta

A quick (temporary) system hack to get Panic’s Candybar working in the current OSX Lion betas.

06-03-11 \\ Themes

iTerm 2 SSH Dark Color Terminal Theme for Mac OSX

iTerm 2 SSH Dark color terminal theme for Mac OSX, based on my other terminal themes.

05-31-11 \\ OSX

Mass Email Marketing and Mailing List Manager for OSX with MaxBulk Mailer

Maxprog has created the ultimate tool for online email marketing. MaxBulk Mailer is an application that allows you to send mass emails (in bulk) to your mailing list for no monthly cost. It’s a great tool for online marketing and mailing list management.

05-27-11 \\ News

Student finds universe’s missing mass

A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called “missing mass” of the universe during her summer break.

05-26-11 \\ OSX

12 must have Mac OSX apps and utilities for 2011

My list of some of the most important and crucial apps in my everyday workflow. The list contains a wide variety of apps, including file converters, GTD application, blog editor, a twitter client and more.

05-25-11 \\ Guides

Suexec Policy violation error – permission denied running php as CGI suexec error (centos / plesk)

I spent some time trying to figure out how to fix the Suexec Policy Violation error under Plesk in Centos.

05-22-11 \\ Guides

Parallels 6 in OSX Lion – Solving “Unable to Load the Parallels Driver”

I had a hard time getting Parallels 6 to load a Parallels virtual Machine in OSX Lion Beta. These few simple shell commands made everything run great.

05-19-11 \\ Hacking

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) 1.5 released

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed.

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