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[Source: How to make Safari’s Private Browsing feature actually private] Even if you run Safari in PRIVATE mode or FIREFOX in private mode, your web history exists at the os level. “Now open a Terminal by selecting Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal. Enter the command:” dscacheutil -cachedump -entries Host You will then see a list [...]
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CNET’s by Brooke Crothers, Has a nice article on why. All excellent points and I’m glad he called them out. It didn’t make any sense to me why this would happen. Some highlights below, but be sure to read the full article linked at the bottom of the post. “Some salient points from the article: [...]
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Their Q/A about what was going on exactly: [Source: Macworld: http://www.macworld.com/article/159501/2011/04/apple_location_data_response.html] by Lex Friedman About iOS 4.3.3 Software Update (666.2MB) This update contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache including: Reduces the size of the cache No longer backs the cache up to iTunes Deletes the cache entirely when Location Services is turned off [...]
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Ran across some useful information in a forum today and thought I would share it. Conversation stemmed from someone asking how big of an SSD would they need to have a dual-boot config laptop. Every OS has extra stuff you don’t need so the following things were suggested to slim down the size. [Source] When [...]
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Was reading a thread about people with laptops who upgraded to SSD’s and didn’t have extra space for games and wanted to install Steam and its games on an a secondary drive. It apparently works using Symbolic links. Wiki snippet: “In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a special type of [...]
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