Development Phase Code Signing

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied. Thus, code signing is a technology which is rather useless in itself, but […]

LiveDiscKit From Rogue Amoeba

Friday, June 27th, 2008

At this year’s Macworld conference, the guys at Rogue Amoeba decided to do what many trade show exhibitors do: give away a free demo CD to interested attendees. But recognizing the conventional drawback of these demos, that they are obsolete from almost the minute the disc is burned, they invested in developing a clever application […]

WordPress To Disable Remote Access

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The WordPress developers have decided that, starting with WordPress 2.6, access to the XMLRPC and AtomPub-based remote publishing interfaces will be disabled by default. Users who wish to use a remote client such as MarsEdit will have to go out of their way to enable the required functionality in their blog’s settings. There are good […]

Black Ink 1.1

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve just updated my Black Ink crossword solving app to version 1.1, bringing a dramatically improved printout quality, and a host of other small improvements: Black Ink 1.1 Dramatically improved puzzle printing quality Improved highlighting of active clue in clue list Fix for crashing scenario when migrating preferences to a new Mac Improved reliability of […]