In Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) the Automator tool has been drastically upgraded to support the creation of service workflows. In simple terms, this means you can build automated chains of tasks that can be invoked in a context sensitive manner. Not simple enough? Using this tool, you can automate common actions you perform [...]

Hulu is a great site to find new shows and catch up on old, but due to various contracts no one outside the US can use it. This irritated some friends of mine from Canada, England, Germany, et cetera. So I decided to write up one (very reliable) way to circumvent the Hulu geolocation checks [...]

Update: Fix for 10.6.4 and Mail 4.3 Lately Apple has been revving the version number (and plugin compatibility UUID) of Mail.app with every version of 10.6. This breaks bundles like GrowlMail even when they are still compatible. The easy fix (although not necessarily the best if it turns out an update is required!) is to [...]

If you have a list of keys and SSL certs and don’t know which cert belongs with which key, here’s a script for you. It’s not efficient (nested for loop!), but it gets the job done quickly.1 #!/bin/bash for i in `ls *.key` do key_mod=`openssl rsa -noout -in $i -modulus` for j in `ls *.cer` [...]

Server Name Indication (SNI), an extension to TLS, allows browsers that support it to connect to SSL hosts that do not have dedicated IPs (much like standard http virtual hosting has worked for years). This extension, however, must be supported on both the server and client side. Microsoft has not yet chosen to support it [...]

A few more tricks to make your bash environment better. As always, add them to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile to enable. Disable the pagination of long lists when ambiguously tab completing. bind ‘set page-completions off’ Increase max returned items before being prompted. (ie, “Display all 380 possibilities? (y or n”). You can set the number [...]