"Titled “Protecting Your Privacy in the Mobile Era,” the report consists entirely of the five words “Don’t use a mobile phone.” This complements EFF’s 1991 report: “Don’t use electronic mail."
Ten ways to April Fool the Mac/iPhone user in your life
Friend’s MacBook doesn’t have a screensaver password? Know your wife’s iPhone unlock PIN? Alright good, here’s some suggestions for how best to abuse that trust:
1. Invert the screen. On their Mac type cmd+opt+control+8. On your mark’s iPhone/iPad go to Settings > General > Accessibility and set Triple-click Home to White/Black, then triple click the home button.
2. Get creative with text substitution. Navigate to Settings > General > Keyboard and add a new shortcut. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
3. Install OmniDazzle and enable Pixie Dust following their cursor.
4. The ol’ replace-the-desktop-with-a-fullscreen-screenshot gag. Remember to move their Dock. On their iOS device check out apps like LiquidDisplay.
5. Set their default search provider to Bing.
6. Set their keyboard layout to Dvorak.
7. SSH access? Go nuts with the say command. i.e. say -v alex “I’m sorry Dave”.
8. In addition to tip 1 above, Universal Access is chock full of little gems. Set their screen to flash when an alert occurs, turn on voiceover, crank up the contrast, or make their cursor huge.
9. Make some edits to their hosts file. Any day of the year I add an entry redirecting fox news to the Onion. Is your mark a Facebook drone? Maybe they should try out MySpace for today…
10. Discretely point your Apple remote at their machine and hold the Play/Pause button for a few seconds to sleep their machine.
Level Map of Portland, via Google’s 8-Bit maps for NES.
Adobe (a French word for “shitty installer”) has begone Merlin entirely in the Photoshop CS6 beta. Apparently Merlin Lives! no more. Yes, it was the first thing I checked.
Air Display works with iPad Personal Hotspot
Despite the warning that you must enable wifi, Air Display running on a third generation iPad happily connects with my Mac via the iPad’s Personal Hotspot.
(Source: dudleyworl)
You know how most consumer type backup batteries have a set of surge protector only receptacles? Apparently the fucking sticker over them wasn’t clear enough for the asshole who setup this little baby rack at a design firm.
My 7 month old son would have done a better job setting up these folks’ server.
"I’d love to stop and talk to you about your citizens initiative!"
Never heard on Hawthorne (via neverheardinpdx)
