SelfHTML auf dem Chaos Communication Camp

Eben erst in meinem Feedreader entdeckt: SelfHTML WebDevVilage auf dem Chaos Comunication Camp 2007

Ich bin auf dem Camp und werde wohl mal vorbeischauen – vielleicht interessiert es ja auch den einen oder anderen meiner werten Leser. Lohnt sich sicher!

Trick 17 für »Gefährder«

Hausdurchsuchung

Aus der Micky Maus.

Reading man pages in Preview.app

This is a neat little command line to open man pages in Preview.app:

man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app

In fact its converting it to a PDF file. I just tried it and its a lot better to read and search than in the Terminal.app.

Found on bitfever.de

MacPorts Quicky

If you ever wanted to know what ports are actually available through MacPorts check out their trac site at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports

That’s it for now.

Safari for Windows supports color profiles and remote execution

The good news is that Safari for Windows also supports color profiles which is a feature that no other browser has. This is really cool because when you post a picture to the internet, lets say with you cameras color profile attached, it looks very different than in Photoshop. This is because all the other browsers don’t understand those profiles and take sRGB as the default color space.

The bad news is that Safari for Windows already has a 0-Day Exploit. In fact it was posted only two hours after it was available. Personally, I don’t think it is that bad because Apple needs to have some training lessons in terms of secure code and dealing with exploits. I’m very curious how Apple will adopt to the new Windows user base which is a lot more experienced or even interested in finding such security issues.

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