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Aperture adatbázis javítás

2011-06-03T14:37:28Z

Nagytakarítást végeztem a kissé már meghízott Aperture Library-ben, 2002-ig visszamenően. 8-900 fotót töröltem ilyen-olyan okból kifolyólag (duplikáció, életlenség, zajosság stb.). Ürítettem az Aperture lomtárát, majd amikor rutinból ismételten CMD-SHIFT-BCKSPACE-t ütöttem feltűnt, hogy az üres kukából megint akar törölni 79 bejegyzést. Ez a 79 bejegyzés azonban nem volt látható sehol sem, de az Aperture mégis ragaszkodott hozzá, hogy törölni akarja őket. Az újraindítás és a jogok javítása (Disk Utility) sem vezetett eredményre, végül Google-ben találtam rá a megoldásra.

Az Aperture a CMD-OPTION gombok nyomva tartásával lehetőséget ad bizonyos adatbázis műveletek elvégzésére:

Nálam az alapértelmezett “Repair Database” vezetett eredményre és a javítás befejeztével elő is került a 79 db törölt tétel a kukából, melyektől már gond nélkül meg tudtam szabadulni. Nem egy nagy cheat, de jó tudni, hogy ilyen is van.

10 more useful iPhone tips & tricks

2011-04-01T19:18:35Z

It’s time again for another iPhone tips & tricks post. The last time I wrote one of these posts was over two years ago, but almost everything in that post is still relevant today. I’ll recap that one first so that you can try to get the most from your iPhone…

10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

Here’s an overview of the 10 tips & tricks in that post…

quick scrolling to the top of a list
taking screenshots
saving images in Safari and Mail
enabling and using caps lock
accessing extra keys while typing
locking / shutting down / forcing quit / resetting
Home button options (obsolete with iOS 4)
swiping to delete
registering your Wi-Fi for improved location positioning
forwarding AIM messages to your iPhone when you’re offline

Even if you already know most of these, you’re bound to learn something from the additional tips & tricks that the almost 200 commenters posted there, so be sure to check the post out.

And now onto the new batch…

1. Easy Phone app redial

Have you ever dialed someone and then needed to call the same person right back? Even though the iPhone Phone app provides you with a nice list of the outgoing and incoming calls with the Recents list, when you’re in the Keypad section it doesn’t provide you with the one function button that most phones made in the past couple of decades have.

Or does it?

If you simply tap the Call button, the last number that you dialed will reappear, all ready for you to redial it.

2. Misfit autocorrections

Even for its flaws, autocorrection/autocompletion is one of the iPhone’s best features. And since it takes two taps to type an apostrophe, it’s especially handy when you’re typing contractions. Simply type “youre”, “dont”, or “its” and as soon as you tap the space key, the words get magically transformed into “you’re”, “don’t”, and “it’s”, respectively.

But what if you’re trying to type “we’re”? Since “were” is an actual word, the autocorrect system isn’t going to help you here. Not unless you do a little circuit-bending, that is…

It looks like Apple was thinking a bit forward when they created autocorrect and provided a bunch of somewhat nonintuitive, “misfit” autocorrections that can come in handy when your typing is flowing along.

For example, If you type an extra “e” after “were”, it’ll “autocorrect” it to “we’re”.

Here are the “misfit” autocorrections that I’ve discovered:

weree → we’re
welll → we’ll
shelll → she’ll
helll → he’ll
itst → its

Granted, you have to shift your thinking a bit and change the way these words are “spelled” in your mind. But you’d be surprised how fast your mind can adapt to it, especially if you do a lot of typing on your iPhone.

Note that depending on your typing patterns (the autocorrect system adapts to what you commonly type over time), some of these may not work for you. Also note that these particular autocorrections are dependent on your iPhone’s language being set to English.

3. Setting exposure when taking photos

Tap to focus is a great feature of your iPhone’s camera. With just a simple touch, you can have the camera bring an object into focus and even do some cool depth of field effects.

But did you know that with the tap to focus system, you’re also able to adjust the exposure of your photos… meaning their lightness or darkness… as you shoot them?

When you tap to focus, not only does the camera adjust the focal point to the point you’ve tapped, but it also adjusts the exposure based on that point. In a nutshell, if you want to make your photo darker, tap a bright area of the preview and if you want to make your photo lighter, tap a dark area.

Behind the scenes, the camera’s adjusting the ISO and shutter speed to set the exposure.

Bear in mind that both focus and exposure are tied together with the standard Camera app. But if you use our very own Camera+ app (and if you ignore this shameless plug), you’re able to adjust both independently for fine control over your photos. This comes in handy if you’d like to focus on a particular object while still being able to control the lightness or darkness of the photo.

Bonus tip: Watch Lisa Bettany show you how to prevent taking blurry iPhone photos

4. The Home button treasure trove

How many of you know that double-tapping the home button shows your recently used apps so that you can quickly go back into them? Raise your hands…

I see a lot of hands. Good.

Now how many of you know that swiping those icons to the right reveals a few interesting controls? Keep your hands raised if so…

Ok, still a decent amount of hands.

For those of you who weren’t aware, one of the most significant things that Apple added to iOS 4 was the screen orientation lock and that’s where you’ll find it. If you’ve ever been frustrated by your iPhone’s screen rotating when you weren’t expecting it, this one little control will put an end to all that.

Alright, out of the remaining hands, how many of you know that if you swipe further to the right, you get even more controls? Let’s see those hands…

Aha, not so many hands remain!

The volume controls have become somewhat of a point of controversy for iOS devices. From their inconsistent behavior (does pressing them set the ringer volume or the system sound volume?)… to Apple repurposing them (they tried to change the iPad orientation lock switch to a mute button only to flip-flop and offer it as a setting later)… to developers changing their behavior and getting apps booted from the App Store… there’s no doubt that those controls can have confusing behaviors in some circumstances. The good thing is that the volume slider that’s located here has one function and that’s to control only the system volume. If you’ve ever been frustrated because you were about to play an audio or video track and wanted to preemptively lower the volume so you wouldn’t disturb others around you… only to inadvertently lower the ringer volume, then this slider’s for you.

Moreover, on the secondary swipe panel, you’ll also find a very handy AirPlay control if you have any AirPlay-enabled devices on your network. You’ll be able to play audio from most of your apps through your AirPlay speakers by choosing them here.

5. Screen zooming

This feature is surely handy if you have poor vision. But it also comes in handy if you’re a designer or developer and you ever have the need to get a close-up of your screen at the pixel-level (details, details!).

To enables this gem, go to your Settings app and tap General. Then tap Accessibility and then tap Zoom. Flip the switch to on and then you can three-finger-double-tap your way to screen magnification bliss whenever your heart desires.

6. Tap and hold to reveal additional features

Sometimes when you tap something and hold your finger down on what you tapped, you reveal additional functionality.

In Safari and Mail, you can do this on links and images to display action sheets with the additional functions.

In the Maps app, when you do this, it drops a pin on the location you’ve tapped. This can come in very handy when you want to remember where you parked your vehicle.

In the Photos app, tapping and holding a photo displays a popup control, enabling you to copy the photo for later pasting.

And we utilize this convention in our own Camera+, where tapping and holding the Save, Copy, and Delete controls displays action sheets with additional, handy functions.

7. The Safari address timesaver

I can save you one tap for every address you enter into the Safari address bar. Over a lifetime, this could potentially save you somewhere between seconds all the way up to years of time, depending on your browsing habits. I’m giving you the gift of life… make the most of it.

When you tap the address bar in Safari, the obvious thing to do when you want to replace the current address with a new one is to tap the ’x’ icon to clear the current address before typing the new one. But there’s a little, handy shortcut that almost nobody seems to know about… simply start typing and it’ll replace whatever address was in the bar.

Normally on your iPhone, you’d expect this behavior only when a text field has all the text in it selected and it’s definitely not standard behavior for other text fields. Take, for instance, the one residing directly to the right of this one in Safari… the search field definitely behaves the standard way. When you tap the search field again soon after entering a search term, the insertion point is placed at the end of the previous search term so that you can easily add to it if you’d like. This is likely what most people would want to do in this situation.

So even though it’s somewhat inconsistent behavior between the two fields, it seems like Apple did some thinking along these lines and made each text field operate most efficiently, depending on the context of how the field is used. The unfortunate thing is that the address bar shortcut is pretty hidden.

8. Hidden tap features

When an app relies on a non-obvious gesture or sequence of taps to perform a core function, it’s bad UI design. It’s important to note the two phrases “relies on” and “core function”, though.

If the app supplies another obvious way to perform the function, even if it’s more work to do so, then this is acceptable. Likewise, if the function isn’t a core function, this is also acceptable. The non-obvious method essentially becomes a shortcut.

The biggest issue with these shortcuts is having users be able to discover them. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to find them… it typically takes a bunch of somewhat random taps, pinches, and swipes in various places in an app to see what hidden gems turn-up.

Here are a few useful ones I found in some of the standard apps…

Display images at 100% size in Safari

Double-tapping many things on your iPhone typically results in zooming-in on what you’re tapping. But sometimes you want to see things at actual size (100% zoom level).

You can do this for images in Safari if you double-tap them with two fingers.

This is a very nice feature and it’d be great if it turned into a convention. If Apple used it in more of the standard apps and if 3rd-party developers added it to their apps where appropriate, then it would become one. For the sake of practicing what I’m preaching, I just added it to our Camera+ to-do list.

Page scrolling in Safari

If you’re zoomed into an area while you’re browsing a webpage in Safari, you can double-tap toward the top or bottom of the page to scroll up or down approximately a half page. Why only a half of a page versus a whole page? I don’t know, but I think it would’ve been much more useful to scroll about a whole page at a time. Nonetheless, it’s still a handy alternative scrolling method.

Two-finger tap to zoom out in Maps

Sometimes, when you double-tap things to zoom on your iPhone, it behaves such that the first double-tap zooms in and the second zooms out… it’s like a zoom toggle function. But sometimes, the more you double-tap, the more you zoom in. This is how zooming works in the Maps app.

So how do you zoom out in this latter case? Generally, the only way to do so is to pinch. But in the Maps app, if you single-tap with two fingers, it zooms out. When I use this, I almost always inadvertently double-tap with two fingers, zooming out one more level than I desired, though (like the first time I tried to capture the above screenshot). But it’s still a useful shortcut.

9. Text selection

Many of you are probably aware that if you double-tap a word while you’re editing text on your iPhone, it’ll select the word. This is a carryover from text editing on most computer apps, where double-clicking is used to select a word.

But in most computer apps, triple-clicking text will select a whole line of text and this is where the similarity starts to break down… on the iPhone, triple-tapping text usually does nothing.

But all isn’t lost and thankfully, Apple carried over one of the other very useful text editing conventions… paragraph selection. Four taps in a row will select all of the text of the paragraph that you’re tapping within.

Why Apple skipped right over triple-tapping is a mystery to me. If they felt that selecting a whole line of text wasn’t very useful, I think that it would’ve been better to make it so that paragraph selection was done with triple-tapping instead of quadruple-tapping. When you do these multiple taps, you need to do them all on approximately the same point, and relatively quickly, for them to be interpreted correctly. And the more taps you do, the more likely you are to move slightly. As a result, attempting to quadruple-tap sometimes results in failure, which can be somewhat frustrating.

10. Search on page in Safari

Ah, consistency. When a system adheres to it, it can make for a wonderful and intuitive experience.

Apple has set a pretty strong precedent with the convention that if you want to search within the context of what you’re currently viewing, you can expect to find a search field at the top of the screen. They’ve done this with apps like Mail, Notes, Messages, iPod, and Contacts. Sometime you need to pull beyond the top to reveal the search field, but you can generally count in it being there.

Since the precedent was, in fact, strong, many 3rd-party developers followed suit and implemented a similar content search in their apps. A few prominent examples are in the Twitter, Simplenote, and Facebook apps.

So, why did Apple choose not to do the same for Safari?

Well, I can’t answer that question and for the longest time, besides scanning it with your eyes, there was simply no way to search on the webpage you were currently browsing. But with iOS 4.2, Apple did bring that functionality to Safari, albeit in an inconsistent and somewhat convoluted way.

I’m sure that all of you are well aware that the field to the right of the address bar enables you to search using your preferred search engine (Google by default). But did you know that this same search field can be used to search within the webpage you’re currently browsing? To do so, enter a search term in the field and then scroll to the bottom of the list that appears (in the “On This Page” section).

It’s a weird mechanism for performing this kind of search. My biggest gripe is that the search field title of “Google” doesn’t accurately reflect that you’re able to do this so it basically results in hidden functionality. But it does work at least.

I just think that a much better solution would’ve been for Apple to implement a pull-down search field for this. It would’ve been consistent with many other apps and much more discoverable.

Got any additional tips & tricks?

That wraps-up this round of iPhone tips & tricks. If you found them to be useful, be sure to pass them on to your friends by sharing them on Twitter or Facebook. And don’t forget to follow us so that you don’t miss any more handy tips & tricks in the future. Oh, and be sure to pass along any additional ones that you know of in the comments below…

Again, if you found these tips useful, you’ll also want to check out the original 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks.

Install Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection without the bloat

2011-03-28T14:30:00Z

Arguably the most useful part of the Office suite, Remote Desktop Connection is available as a free, separate download from Microsoft. The standard installation process will automatically install a bunch of background stuff that you arguably don't need, for instance, the auto-updater, crash reporter, and office dock package. Following this simple hint will allow you to install RDC without the added bloat and annoying auto-update popups.

Mount the .dmg you downloaded from Microsoft's Mactopia site.
Ctrl+click or right click on the RDC Installer package and choose 'Show Package Contents.'
Drill down to /Contents/Packages. You will see four installer packages. Copy the Office2011_en_rdc.pkg installer to your desktop.
Unmount (eject) the disk image and run the installer you just copied.

Everything should work normally, with the exception of no extra processes r ...

Te kinek rúgnád szét a seggét?

2010-10-02T13:32:42Z

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Asskickin' vagyis kurvajó a Diesel új cipősorozata, ami az angolban egyúttal seggen rúgást is jelent. Erre a szójátékra épül a cég új reklámkampánya, ami lehetne kényszeredett is, de a szójáték jellegét és a célcsoportot figyelembe véve egyáltalán nem az. A Diesel cipői utcai divatcipők, amit igyekeznek a hasznukra fordítani, és egyenesen a Nike-nak mennek neki a reklámokban, próbálva ezzel egyfajta ellenpólust képezni az alapvetően sport célra készült cipőkkel szemben. Nem rossz az irány és nem rosszak a cipők sem. A "kampánygondolat" olyannyira egyszerű és gazdag, hogy egy egész sorozatot is fel tudtak rá húzni, körbejárva a fő témát, a segget. Az egyik filmben egy hatalmas cipőjármű kerget egy segget, hogy fenékbe billentse, egy másikon egy szép párnás női feneket láthatunk lassított felvételen rengeni hosszú másodpercekig. Egy harmadikban gyakorlati tanácsokat kapunk, és nagy műgonddal bemutatják nekünk a különféle seggberúgó technikákat, egy kevésbé sikerült filmben pedig egy asskickin' balettjelenetet láthatunk. Nem egy magasröptű kampány, de hogy sikeres lesz, és rengetegen fognak beszélni róla, az egészen biztos.

[...] Bővebben!

Playstation 3 Hacking – Linux Is Inevitable

2010-09-07T07:45:02Z

In the talk “Why Silicon Security is still that hard” by Felix Domke at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress in 2007 (in which he described how he hacked the Xbox 360, and bushing had a cameo at the end explaining how they hacked the Wii), I had a little part, in which I argued that “Linux Is Inevitable”: If you lock down a system, it will eventually get hacked. In the light of the recent events happening with PlayStation 3 hacking, let’s revisit them.

This is the original slide from 2007:

device	y	security	hacked	for	effect
PS2	1999	?	?	piracy	-
dbox2	2000	signed kernel	3 months	Linux	pay TV decoding
GameCube	2001	encrypted boot	12 months	Homebrew	piracy
Xbox	2001	encrypted/signed bootup, signed executables	4 months	Linux Homebrew	piracy
iPod	2001	checksum	<12 months	Linux	-
DS	2004	signed/encrypted executables	6 months	Homebrew	piracy
PSP	2004	signed bootup/executables	2 months	Homebrew	piracy
Xbox 360	2005	encrypted/signed bootup,encrypted/signed executables, encrypted RAM, hypervisor, eFuses	12 months	Linux Homebrew	leaked keys
PS3	2006	encrypted/signed bootup,encrypted/signed executables, hypervisor, eFuses, isolated SPU	not yet	-	-
Wii	2006	encrypted bootup	1 month	Linux	piracy
AppleTV	2007	signed bootloader	2 weeks	Linux	Front Row piracy
iPhone	2007	?	1 month	Homebrew international	SIM-Lock revenue

The table shows the relationship between the quality of a device’s security system and the time it took to hack it, as well as the original motivation for hacking and the side effects (collateral damage) it caused.

Correlation security/time to hack

There is a pretty clear correlation betwen the quality of the security system and the time required for hacking it – with the notable exception being the GameCube, which had rather weak security, but since its release coincided with the much more powerful Xbox, much of the hacker community neglected the GameCube until the Xbox was done. What can also be seen is that recently, devices tend to get hacked more quickly; probably simply because there are more and more people interested in hacking.

Correlation Linux/time to hack

The other exception is the PlayStation 3, which was not hacked until about three and a half years after its introduction. I argued that this was because there was only very little motivation to hack it: Sony shipped the devices with the “Other OS” option and even sponsored a port of Linux to it, allowing any user to install Linux if they wanted. Although Linux was running on top of a hypervisor and did not have access to all of the features of the device, it seems to have been enough to take the enough motivation to hack it out of the hacker community.

Linux/homebrew is the primary motivation

This is supported by the by the fact that the motivation for hacking every system in the table was either homebrew (i.e. running unautorized hobbyist applications) or Linux. Hackers seem to love to convert their devices into Linux computers to run a big library of existing software, or to hack the device to make it possible to run versions of existing emulators and games on the native OS.

Piracy is a side effect

None of the hacks in the table was done with the motivation to allow running copied games – but whenever the point of the security system was to prevent piracy, hacking it inevitably enabled piracy as a side effect. Some security systems protected other things like pay TV keys and SIM-locks; these also fell as side effects.

2010 update

In September 2009, Sony started shipping the “slim” model of the PlayStation 3, with the “Other OS” feature removed. With firmware 3.21 in April 2010, the feature was also removed from existing original models that users chose to upgrade – which was required for using any of the online features. The missing “Other OS” feature on the slim model motivated George Hotz (geohot) to hack into hypervisor mode (Jan 2010), but this approach did not lead to a working hack of the security system. In August 2010, the Australian company OzMods announced the commercial “PSJailbreak” USB dongle that hacks into non-hypervisor mode, allowing piracy and homebrew (“Backup Manager” says “backups and homebrew”).

Although this is the first time that a commercial company is first to hack a system, and the first time that piracy seems to have been a key motivation, removal of “Other OS” might have been another motivation, and geohot’s previous attempts might have helped as an entry point for this hack.

Usually, an open hacker community develops a hack, and commercial companies convert them into modchips. This time, a company developed a hack and a modchip, and the community reverse engineered it and ported the exploit code onto several other devices, allowing people to hack the PlayStation 3 without a dedicated device. And I’m sure Linux will be adapted soon to run in the new environment.

Conclusion

What do we learn from this? Linux is inevitable. Or maybe it should be “Homebrew is inevitable”. In the history of mankind, there has yet to be a popular system that is locked down to only allow certain software to run, but does not get hacked to run arbitrary code. I still dare to say that if Sony had not removed “Other OS”, the PlayStation 3 would have been the first system to not get hacked. At all.

(Here is an updated 2010 version of the table:)

device	y	security	hacked	for	effect
PS2	1999	?	?	piracy	-
dbox2	2000	signed kernel	3 months	Linux	pay TV decoding
GameCube	2001	encrypted boot	12 months	Homebrew	piracy
Xbox	2001	encrypted/signed bootup, signed executables	4 months	Linux Homebrew	piracy
iPod	2001	checksum	<12 months	Linux	-
DS	2004	signed/encrypted executables	6 months	Homebrew	piracy
PSP	2004	signed bootup/executables	2 months	Homebrew	piracy
Xbox 360	2005	encrypted/signed bootup,encrypted/signed executables, encrypted RAM, hypervisor, eFuses	12 months	Linux Homebrew	leaked keys
PS3	2006	encrypted/signed bootup,encrypted/signed executables, hypervisor, eFuses, isolated SPU	4 years	Piracy Homebrew	-
Wii	2006	encrypted bootup	1 month	Linux	piracy
AppleTV	2007	signed bootloader	2 weeks	Linux	Front Row piracy
iPhone	2007	signed/encrypted bootup/executables	11 days	Homebrew SIM-Lock	piracy
iPad	2010	signed/encrypted bootup/executables	1 day	Homebrew	piracy

Tűzfal építés egyszerűen

2010-08-27T23:43:33Z

Mindig is közel álltak a szívemhez a Linux alapú megoldások. Alapvetően “konzol huszárnak” tartom magam, nem riadok meg néhány shell szkript megírásától, mi több, az esetek többségében kifejezetten jobban szeretek a konzolban dolgozni mint a GUI-n kattintgatni. Hiába, DOS-on és Linuxon nőttem fel, Dos Navigator és Midnight Commander volt a desktopom. Volt amikor Lynx volt az alapértelmezett böngészőm, Mutt a levelezőkliensem, néztem már videót az MPlayer ASCII art kimenetén keresztül (mplayer -vo aa) és hardcore linuxos időszakomban készítettem a cdw (CD/DVD író frontend) alkalmazást.

Szerver üzemeltetés során az egyik leggyakoribb igény – webszerver építése mellett – egy stabil, magas rendelkezésre állású és biztonságos tűzfal kialakítása. Nálam általában az iptables és az ipfw a favorit. A legelképesztőbb dolgokat be lehet velük állítani, a költség vonzata pedig kimerül egy megfelelő hardverkonfiguráció beszerzésében. Nem véletlen, hogy sok nagyvállalat teszi le a voksát Linux alapú tűzfal megoldás mellett, még akkor is ha a teljes informatikai rendszer Windows alapú szervereket, klienseket és szolgáltatásokat tartalmaz.

Ahogyan a bejegyzés elején már említettem, nem riadok meg néhány shell szkript megírásától, így az iptables konfigurációja sem szokott problémát okozni. Mi több, az iptables eleve biztosítja, hogy az elkészített szabályokat egyetlen parancs kiadásával egy állományba mentsük, ahonnan később könnyedén visszatölthető a mentett állapot (iptables-save). Sok Linux disztribúció már alapértelmezetten tartalmaz valamilyen inicializáló szkriptet a tűzfal szabályok betöltésére így nincs is különösebb gond addig amíg csak néhány port engedélyezéséről és/vagy átirányításról van szó. Amikor a szabályok száma drasztikusan elkezd növekedni és ezeket napi szinten kell módosítani, finomhangolni, akkor a legnagyobb geek rendszergazda is belátja, hogy nem feltétlenül ez a leghatékonyabb módja az üzemeltetésnek. Ha ilyen helyzetben találod magad, akkor lehet szükséged a Firewall Builder alkalmazásra.

A Firewall Builder egy platformfüggetlen GUI a különböző platformok tűzfalainak menedzseléséhez, amely fut Windowson, Linuxon és legnagyobb örömömre Mac OSX-en is. Igaz, hogy engem csak az iptables-re és az ipfw-re vonatkozó részek érintenek, de impozáns a támogatott platformok listája:

iptables
ipfw
pf (Packet Filter)
Cisco ASA/PIX
Cisco ACL
HP ProCurve ACL

Régebben egy Cisco SOHO routert használtam, amely ACL-jének a kezelését manuálisan konfigurálgattam, mert a webes felülete sosem akart rendesen működni. Sokszor vért izzadtam mire sikerült a kívánt beállításokat elvégeznem, jól jött volna akkor is ez a szoftver. A Check Point tűzfalmegoldásánál találkoztam ehhez hasonló, grafikus felhasználói felületen történő adminisztrációval, de az leginkább fájdalmas emlék számomra.

A Firewall Builder mindamellett, hogy remek felületet biztosít a tűzfal létrehozására és adminisztrálására, további remek kényelmi és biztonsági funkciókat is biztosít. Képes az elkészített szabályokat ellenőrizni és analizálni, figyelmeztet, ha egy beállítás “kitakar” egy másikat vagy esetleg ütközik vele. Egyszerűen lehet meglévő beállításokat duplikálni további szerkesztéshez vagy rendezni a szabályok sorrendjét. Új szolgáltatásokkal, hosztokkal és csoportokkal lehet kiegészíteni a meglévő szabályrendszert, akár egy egyszerű drag-and-droppal.

A csoportok és meta objektumok létrehozása különösen nagy segítség a mindennapi adminisztrációban, melyekkel olyan egységeket is létre lehet hozni amelyek fizikailag nem is léteznek. Ezek lehetnek címtartományok, egyedi ip címek, hálózati interface-ek, sőt akár text állományból is be tudja olvasni az abban regisztrált címeket. A routing tábla adminisztrációját is el lehet végezni a szoftver felületén keresztül, valamint óriási segítséget nyújt a virtuális hálózati interface-ek létrehozásában. Alapértelmezetten tartalmazza a standard szolgáltatások listáját (ICMP, IP, TagServices, TCP, UDP) amelyeket természetesen saját szolgáltatásokkal is ki lehet egészíteni, melyekből szintén készíthetőek csoportok. Így nem kell az azonos szolgáltatásokat használó szabályokhoz (például a Windows megosztásokhoz) mindig ugyanazokat a portokat behúzgálni. Csak definiálni kell egy csoportot amely a szükséges portok/szolgáltatások listáját tartalmazza, majd azt az egy szolgáltatáscsoportot kell beilleszteni a szabályokhoz. A későbbi adminisztráció során is kényelmes ezek kezelése, hisz ha bővítjük vagy szűkítjük a listát akkor azok – csoport lévén – automatikusan érvénybe lépnek az összes használt beállításnál.

Végül, de nem utolsó sorban az elkészült csomagot egyszerűen lehet telepíteni a tűzfalra, anélkül, hogy a Firewall Builder bármilyen komponensét telepíteni kellene a szerverre. Akár egy laptopon el lehet végezni a teljes konfigurálást. Ha minden elkészült, akkor a Firewall Builder legenerálja a megfelelő szkriptet a beállítások alapján és – tapasztalataim alapján – SSH-n keresztül elküldi azt a szervernek, majd lefuttatja. Milliónyi apró finomhangolást lehet végezni mind a szabályokra, a telepítésre és a program felületére egyaránt.

A szoftver árazása is barátságos, mindössze 120 dollárba kerül. Nyilvánvalóan a legtöbben üzleti célra vásárolnák meg a terméket, ezért fontos lehet, hogy vásárlás esetén a licencen túl tudnak küldeni nyomtatható számlát is a magyarországi vásárlóknak (ezt kérni kell). A 30 napos próbaverzió letölthető a Firewall Builder honlapjáról.

Bréking! Új Apple magyarítás

2010-08-19T17:49:44Z

El sem hiszem! Ma kijött az új magyarítás az iWork-höz is, feltettük és elkezdtünk ujjongani, mert elfelejtették a felszólító módot. Most végre “másolás-kivágás-beillesztés” van, ezért könyörgünk már mióta minden egyes Apple meetingen, de nem csak mi, hanem az összes fórumban erre vágytak a magyarítást használók.

Örömünk nem tartott sokáig, mert hamar rájöttünk, hogy az OS X-ben továbbra is a felszólító módot használják, de hétfőn azonnal hívom az Apple-ös kontaktjaimat, mert most már van mire hivatkozni, hiszen ha az iWork-ben lehet használni a megszokott IT-s nyelvezetet, akkor üthetjük a fejüket, hogy az OS X-ben miért nem így csinálják meg!?

Az iWork magyarítás sokkal jobb mint az eddig megszokott OS X féle hiányos cucc, de azért van mit csiszolni rajta, viszont most már érzésem szerint koránt sem reménytelen az ügy. Remélem 10.6.5-re az OS X magyarítás is ezzel a nyelvezettel, és legalább ennyire igényesen lesz megcsinálva mint az iWork. Ha ez mind megvan, akkor már csak azért kell küzdeni, hogy ne külön kelljen letöltögetni a magyarításokat, hanem alapból tartalmazzák a szoftverek.

A magyarítások letölthetőek az Apcom oldaláról.

Create a Detailed Vector Emblem Badge in Illustrator

2010-07-26T06:00:57Z

Use a range of vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator to create a detailed black and white emblem badge. We’ll use a mix of basic tools to align the various shapes together, then add some cool detail using the more advanced Pathfinder and Blend tools.

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Open up Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Grab the Star Tool and click and drag the shape onto the artboard. Before releasing the mouse, use the keyboard cursor keys to increase the number of points, and the CMD key to adjust the size of the spikes.

Use the Ellipse tool while holding Shift to produce a perfect circle. Give this shape a thick white stroke and no fill. Adjust the ‘Align to‘ option to Align to Selection from the Align palette, then select both objects and align on both the horizontal and vertical axes.

Copy the circle (CMD+C), then paste in front (CMD+F) a duplicate. Grab the corner handle and scale down the shape while holding the Alt key. In the stroke palette, reduce the weight slightly, then check the ‘dashed‘ option.

Paste in another duplicate and scale it down even smaller then give it a thicker stroke weight. Scale another duplicate a little smaller and change the stroke to a white fill. Finally give a third duplicate a thin black stroke and scale it very slightly smaller than the solid white circle.

Draw a star with the Star tool, along with a couple of lines using the, err… Line tool. Group these three objects together then align them with the main badge shape. Hold Shift to add the outer badge shape to the selection, then give it an extra click to make this the key object. This will ensure that the small items move into place, rather than the outer badge which is already lined up.

Add some text to the design. Here I’m using the cool League Gothic font. Convert the text to outlines (CMD+Shift+O), right click to Ungroup, then re-group the letters of each individual word. Move, scale and align the text to fit inside the centre circle.

Hold Shift while dragging a line to constrain the angle to 45 degrees. Give the line a 0.5pt stroke, then duplicate it and move it diagonally across the artboard (hold Shift to keep those angles constrained). With both lines selected go to Object > Blend > Make.

Head back into Object > Blend > Blend Options to alter the settings. Choose Specified Steps, then adjust the figure to form a closely packed series of lines.

With the lines still selected, go to Object > Expand, then select the Object and Stroke options. Move the lines off to one side for the meanwhile.

Select the main badge outline then go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter 1.5mm in the Offset field.

Make a copy of the lines and move them over the main badge design. Carefully select the offset path and the lines together and hit the Intersect option from the Pathfinder while holding the Alt key. Tip: To select just the two objects, drag a wide selection across multiple shapes, then reject these from the selection by holding Shift while dragging or clicking over the unwanted elements.

Clean up the intersection by going to Object > Expand Appearance. This will clear out the series of invisible lines around the object.

Select the dashed line in the centre of the badge and transform it into a solid shape using the Object > Expand > Stroke option.

Copy (CMD+C) and paste in front (CMD+F) a duplicate of the dashed line, then move another copy of the lines over the design. Use the pathfinder once again to intersect the shapes, leaving a series of patterned lines overlaid over the original white dashed stroke.

Copy (CMD+C) and paste behind (CMD+B) a duplicate of the text. Nudge this duplicated text downwards to create a basic shadow effect. Add a white stroke to the original text on top.

Paste in another duplicate of the pattern lines and add the lower text to the selection. Use the Intersect option from the Pathfinder to trim down the pattern to the outline of the text.

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Az iPhone/iPad esete a digitális kamerákkal

2010-06-28T06:50:21Z

A feladat: digitális fényképezőgéped LCD képernyőjénél nagyobb felületen ellenőrizni az elkészült kép minőségét, lehetőleg úgy, hogy a kamerát ne kelljen egy computerhez hozzádrótozni.

A megoldás elmélete: WiFi kell a kamerába és már megy is.

A probléma hardware-es feloldása

Monitor funkciónak használjunk ezúttal iPhone-t, vagy iPad-et és nézzük a kamera oldalát. Az alábbi lehetőségekről tudtam ma hajnalig:

Eleve WiFi-vel integrált kamerát használsz.
Eye-Fi SD kártyát teszel az SD kártyát fogadni képes kamerádba, amely WiFi-t ad a kamerádnak a storage funckió mellett.
CompactFlash-only DSLR-hez a szelén árával vetekedő WiFi adaptert vásárolsz (5D Mark II esetén ez >200kHUF - WTF?), már ha a DSLR-edhez kapható ilyen egyáltalán.

Vegyük ebből a legrosszabb esetet: CompactFlash-only DSLR-be kell WiFi-t hegesztenünk. Erre kínál megoldást a SynchroTech CFMulti CompactFlash Type II to Eye-Fi™ + Multi-Card Adapter, ami CF-nek mutat egy belerakott SD kártyát, ráadásul sikeresen tesztelték vele az Eye-Fi kártyáit is. Ha 2010 június 30-ig rendeled, itt egy 4 USD-t érő kupon: 1259098824. Vas kipipálva, már csak WiFi tethering alkalmazás után kell néznünk.

Az "App"

ShutterSnitch-nek hívják a varázslatot, ami egy 6 EUR-ba kerülő iPhone/iPad alkalmazás.
Az app az RGB hisztogramos review funkció mellett email/FTP integrációt, eltérő beállításokra figyelmeztető triggereket, valamint szerkesztési lehetőségeket kínál.

Sajna 63 USD a legolcsóbb FedEx posta a CF adapter kütyüre, de Jofkovék valószínűleg olcsóbban meghozzák.

Hey Apple, Whatever Happened to Sacred Data?

2010-06-26T08:24:58Z

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ezt én is beszoptam

It pains me to bring this up, as it’ll no doubt bring about scorn from the Android liga on Twitter, but seriously Apple? In what world and under what kind of a regime is this alright? Never mind that I can’t even stretch my imagination far enough to think up a technical reason, but my music is my user data. User data is sacred. The first time this dialog popped up I just pressed enter without reading it, because that’s what users do!

Boom. All my music gone. Not so magic. Not so revolutionary.

Don’t ever do that again please.

Hey Apple, Whatever Happened to Sacred Data?

2010-06-24T19:05:54Z

Boom. All my music gone. Not so magic. Not so revolutionary.

Don’t ever do that again please.

Stop the Browser Selecting Text When Dragging

2010-06-02T13:18:18Z

In playing around with the interface design for an as of yet unannounced—so far webkit only, and altogether largely non existing, I might add—project, I came across several nice-to-know a-ha’s and gotcha’s that are unbelievably helpful for trying to get beyond the usual flaky ‘yeah, we’re still in the browser alright’-feel of most web apps out there, one of which is the remedy to how when you’re using something like this timeline, and you end up selecting text and other elements on the page as you try to navigate it? Stuff like that makes me want to blow my brains out.

Well, saved by the bell, there’s a CSS3 property for that called user-select, it works at least in both Webkit and Mozilla, and it’s heavenly. There’s a lot of uses for it, but for something like the stuff we’re going to do, which is a lot of dragging and dropping of elements, we’ll probably end up simply adding a basic class to the BODY element whenever we don’t want text to be selected, and ét voila.

body.dragginginprogress { -webkit-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; user-select: none; }

World peace. Easy as that.

It’s these small things, the things that you don’t see people writing massive colorful articles about, that really make my day.

You can see it in action in my playpen, though I won’t promise I don’t break that n the near future as I throw various things up on the wall to see what sticks.

Update: If you’re using jQuery UI, there’s also an (undocumented) function called .disableSelection().

TV-foci és flippergép

2010-05-24T07:32:08Z

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Pecznyik Viktoréknak volt ilyenjük.

Voltam játszani az Űrhódító kiállítás megnyitóján. Beszélgettem Képes Gáborral, hallottam pletykát arról, hogy készül videojáték-történeti könyv magyarul, végül pedig beálltam a flipper elé, és addig játszottam, amíg be nem zárták a múzeumot.

Az én cikkem a kiállításról erre található, az Indexé amarra, de sokkal jobb, ha egy üres kedd, csütörtök vagy péntek délelőtt megnézitek a tárlatot. Ezeken a napokon tíztől egyig a mikorszámítógépek is mennek, úgy az igazi.

Ez meg itt hangyafocis háttérkép, mert beleszerettem.

Dezso nincs tobbe :(((

2010-05-13T16:29:54Z

Dezso ur ma delutan eltavozott az orok vadaszmezokre. Legszivesebben nem irnam ezt meg, mert enelkul is eleg szarul vagyok, de tudom, hogy milyen sok olvasom ismerte es szerette a kis szorgombolyagot. Nem is nagyon tudok mit irni… Iszonyatosan hianyzik, es bar tudom, hogy ez az elet rendje, akkor is utalom ezt az erzest. Ket eve az orvosok azt mondtak par honapja, max fel eve van a macskanak, de Dezso joval tovabb huzta, az utobbi honapokban viszont annyira leromlott az allapota, hogy alig birtam nezni. Hiaba a sok hazhozjaro doki, csomo gyogyszer, a rohadt rak nem viccel, mar a masodik csaladtagomat vette el. Szeptember ota gondolkoztam, hogy elaltassam e, vegul most par napja annyira rosszul lett, hogy muszaj volt raszannom magam, mert nem akartam, hogy tovabb szenvedjen. Tudom, hogy jol dontottem, de ettol meg kurva szar erzes volt kioltani az eletet annak a kis allatnak aki feltetel nelkul tudott szeretni, nekem pedig kicsit olyan volt mintha a kisgyerekem lett volna, kozel husz ev alatt nagyon nagyon hozzam nott.

Most hazajottem, es egybol mellbevagott, hogy Dezso tobbe nem fog nyavogni mikor belepek az ajton, nem fogom hallani a kormeinek a kopogasat, ahogy maszkal a lakasban, es nem fog velem aludni…

Sorry, nem tudok tobbet irni, rajottem, nem is lehet mit…

Remelem Dezso, hogy mar vigan szaladgalsz az orok vadaszmezokon!

Bajai Transformer

2010-05-09T08:00:32Z

LaTeX + google docs

2010-05-08T14:23:37Z

Ma reggel láttam, s rögtön továbbítottam bodzasfanta twittjét: Azaz a docs.latexlab.org oldalon belépve google account segítségével LaTeX-be lehet írni, s rögtön fordítani. Nincs többet szükség telepítésre, lokálba fordításra, idegen gépen alternatíva keresésére, teljesen portable lett a TeX. Bárhol, bármikor elérhető, ha van net. Akár telefonról is megírhatom a következő dolgozat anyagát. Jippi! Mai nap híre, a hónap eseménye. Eddig nem voltam google docs felhasználó. Most azonban megváltozik a dolog. El is kezdem feltölteni a dolgozatokat, minden iskolai anyagot, hogy simábban elérhessem. Bár eddig is működött a dolog a dropbox segítségével, azonban ezzel még egyszerűbb lesz.

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Announcing A Book Apart

2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself.

Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers, by the indomitable Jeremy Keith. If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one. I’ve read it three times and love how approachable it is. You can read more from Jeffrey about how we chose our first title, or from Mandy on how A Book Apart works as a publisher.

Designing the Series

While most of the design work I do is for the web, I love getting back to my roots in print. Since I’d already created a simple visual system for A List Apart, I decided to pick up on some of the same elements here, most notably the numbering in the large black circle, the slight overlapping elements, and the color palette change with each edition (to be seen in subsequent books). I wanted these to look like a family on your bookshelf.

I crafted a very simple page design to let the text take the spotlight. It’s a thin book, both in width and thickness, and I spent a long time fiddling with column widths and grids before settling on a comfortable line length. Our books are brief enough that we can’t predictably print on the spines; so I decided to wrap the title from the spine around to the back cover, giving the spine and back cover some identification and texture.

Finding the Right Typefaces

I’m always up for font shopping, so I leapt at the chance to pick up a new text face. We’ll be publishing a variety of code, acronyms, and captions, so I wanted something fairly current, with a healthy set of OpenType features and numbering options. Yoga and its counterpart Yoga Sans by Xavier Dupré fit the bill perfectly. The serif is a similar style to the Garamond we’ve used in ALA and AEA materials, but with a bit of angularity and a more contemporary feel. Yoga Sans makes a great companion for captions and quotes.

To give some punch to the cover and interior headlines, I immediately thought of Titling Gothic by David Berlow, a 49(!) member super family ranging from very thin and narrow to very bold and wide. I selected Regular Skyline which falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Because page width isn’t very wide, this weight has the added benefit of being heavily condensed, allowing for larger type even with longer titles.

For code excerpts I ran a number of print tests. Some monospace fonts look great on screen but fail on the printed page. I eventually decided on Consolas by Lucas de Groot, one of the fonts that Microsoft commissioned for Vista. Not only does Consolas have really pleasing and distinct letterforms, it also comes with a good bold weight— useful for showing emphasis in the code examples.

Coming Soon

This is just the beginning for A Book Apart. We have more books already in the works. For now, do yourself a favor and preorder HTML5 For Web Designers.

Google Earth Tab in Google Maps

2010-04-26T19:55:00Z

Google Maps replaced the terrain tab with a tab for Google Earth. When you click on the Earth tab, Google asks you to install a plug-in for Windows or Mac. If you have a recent version of Google Earth, you already have the plug-in.

"Five years ago, shortly after Google's acquisition of Keyhole, we introduced the first integration of Keyhole technology into Google Maps -- Satellite view. Suddenly, you could see what places actually looked like from the air, and easily switch between this view and the map view. Mapping has never been the same. A few months later, the desktop Google Earth application was released, and now we have over 600 million downloads. Today we are proud to announce the next major step in the marriage between Google Earth and Google Maps -- Earth view," says Peter Birch, from Google.

Even though the new view makes it easier to use Google Earth, since you no longer have to open a new application, I think it's a bad idea to add it to Google Maps. Google Earth plug-in uses a lot of resources, it slows down your browser and it continues to run in the background even if you switch to the Map tab. What's more, if you open Google Maps in another window and switch to the Earth tab, a new instance of the Google Earth plug-in will load.

{ Thanks, Andrew. }

iPad világszerte

2010-04-26T09:54:46Z

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a franciák ugyanolyan szarul flippereznek, mint Handrás lol

MCS pont most írt az appleblogon arról, hogy vajon mennyi iPad lehet az egyesült államokon kívül, én is pont ma akartam erről egy postot, mert hétvégén belefutottam egy érdekes ranglistába a Pinball HD játékban.

A screenshoton egy ranglista látható, ami egyrészt azt mutatja mennyire béna vagyok pinballban, ami viszont érdekes, hogy azt is láthatjuk, mely országokból érkeznek a játékosok. Eszerint több mint a játékosok fele USA-n kívülről játszik az iPaden, ami számomra több mint megdöbbentő, hiszen egy korábbi postban 5-10 százalékra saccoltam ezt az arányt. Érdemes megfigyelni milyen sok a francia zászló.

Most vagy az van, hogy ez a lista nem jelent semmit, mert az amcsik nagyon jók pinballban, ezért ők a lista elején vannak, vagy az Apple nagyon elkúrta az iPad launchot, és az USA vásárlások felét szétküldik világszerte, én ez utóbbira tippelek inkább. Már csak azt nem értem, hogy ők nem látják ezeket a statisztikákat?

Nem tudom miféle emberek dolgoznak az Apple-nél, de ezennel felajánlom a szolgálataimat, jópénzért (potom évi 100 000 dollár elég lesz) szívesen elmegyek hozzájuk tanácsadói munkakörbe, mert ez az egész bénázás amit az utóbbi fél évben az anyacég művel már nekem ciki.

iPad világszerte

2010-04-26T09:16:34Z

~~MCS~~ Szűcs Ádam pont most írt az appleblogon arról, hogy vajon mennyi iPad lehet az egyesült államokon kívül, én is pont ma akartam erről egy postot, mert hétvégén belefutottam egy érdekes ranglistába a Pinball HD játékban.