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Airport Menu Trick in Leopard

December 2nd, 2007 by Marcos

Via Daring Fireball, Tidbits has an interesting article on the new Airport Menu in Leopard. While I noticed the new “lock” icon that shows if a network is encrypted or not, the holding-down-option-key trick I did not know about. I like that it shows the transmission rate so you can tell if the [...]

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The magic of SSH port forwarding

June 15th, 2007 by Marcos

The problem - your department’s network won’t let you ssh or connect directly to your work Mac, you can only ssh to one special computer, and then from there you can ssh to your Mac. But, you’d like to be able to use Apple file sharing or sftp directly to your work Mac.

Well, SSH [...]

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