My god, it's Full of Macs!

“Apple rejected a free iPhone application that advocated a single-payer health system, calling the application “politically charged,” according to the app’s developer.

Red Daly, a 22 year-old computer science grad student at Stanford, submitted his iSinglePayer iPhone app for Apple’s approval on Aug. 21. A little more than a month later Apple rejected it on the grounds of its content, Daly told Wired.com.”

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Also, you might not hear about these when they happen because Apple is putting rejections under NDA!

“If you’re a developer and Apple rejects your iPhone application from its App Store, the company wants you to shut up and get over it.

Apple’s serious about it: The company has extended the iPhone non-disclosure agreement, which prohibits application developers from discussing programming tips, to include rejection letters as well. Some developers in the past have shared their rejection letters on the web, but now, according to MacRumors, rejection letters include a clause that reads, ‘THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE.’”

From Wired Gadget Lab via MyDD

Boo, Hiss! on Apple for this one!  (Gosh I find myself saying that a lot recently…could Apple and Google be the worst offenders out there now?  I really used to like them!)

If you’ve upgraded to OS X 10.6 your computer is now, by default, communicating with Apple about your location.  This allows your Mac to set the time zone automatically based on location, but you may find it a bit creepy. I do.

Here’s how you disable this ‘feature’.

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click on “Security”
3. Check the box “Disable Location Services”

After the recent demise of Mike Bombich’s NetRestore, we all cried.  For days and days, we cried, placed coins in NetRestore’s mouth, built tombs filled with offerrings.  It was very sad and we all hoped that NetRestore would have lots of good fortune in the afterlife.

But, it is  time to move on.  So, what could possibly replace NetRestore?  DeployStudio.

I looked at and rejected DeployStudio, so if you did the same, I suggest you give it another chance.  The biggest hurdle for us was simply getting it configured on the server and understanding what it wanted.  Once that was done, and I understood that it was providing all the same functions as NetRestore, it has made image management much easier.

DeployStudio’s ‘official’ documentation is lacking, but there is a wealth of information available from the community of users about setting it up and using it for standard OS X imaging, dual boot images, and triple boot images.  Using the following resources, I was able to migrate our whole imaging process from NetRestore to DeployStudio in about 1 week, working on it a few hours each day.  Here are the steps I recommend:

1. Download the Software: DeployStudio Server (on both your Mac and on your Server if you are going to use NetBoot)

2. Read the Quick Install Guide

3. Follow the Step-By-Step instructions in this DeployStudio Guide

4. Read through this DeployStudio Wiki for answers to your questions

5. Post questions in the comments and I’ll help if I can!

As much as I despise G**gle and everything they are doing (from data mining, to privacy invasion, to bowing to China’s every demand) they make the best free email service available.  So I use Gmail.  I use it for everything.  Every CUNY email account is pulled into Gmail, all my personal domain names are pulled into Gmail.  Why?  Because you can search and it works.  I’ll say it again, the search actually works.

How do you know if your search works?  When you’re trying to find an old email and you just remember a word or two and the senders name, if you can’t type that into a search box and get your email in 2 minutes or less, your search doesn’t work.  If you use Outlook, or Outlook web access, you know what I’m talking about.  You can’t find anything, ever.

So, how do you get all of your email accounts collected together in your Gmail account?  Use G**gle’s instructions here. And now, Gmail is offering the ability to use your own SMTP servers to send email. What does this mean?  When you send, it won’t say “on behalf of” because it will actually be sending through your own email servers.  This makes Gmail more like a desktop email client, such as Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc.

So far I haven’t been able to get my CUNY email addresses to work with this feature (not surprising, is it!) – but it’s still useful for your other domain accounts.