Category Archives: Macintosh
Phoning Home with CGNAT and a UniFi Gateway
I’ve been running some sort of VPN to access my home network remotely for years. It probably started around the time I bought my first laptop. Back then, the only other computer I had was a Windows desktop. I wanted to access the desktop when I wasn’t home, but opening port 3389 to the world […]
xBrowserSync
I started using Xmarks to sync my bookmarks between multiple browsers and computers so long ago that it may have still been called Foxmarks when I started using it. While I had a handful of problems with it from time to time–mainly with syncs failing and leaving my bookmarks corrupted in a given browser–the tool […]
Mac OS X: Automating Tasks on Sleep
I’ve been playing a lot lately with AppleScript and the Mac Automater app, both of which can do some pretty cool stuff. This gave me an idea: wouldn’t it be great if I could close certain applications when my commuters go to sleep? I have a handful of programs that I run on both my […]