In the last week I had a customer almost lose his iPhone and a friend actually lose it. The lost one was only out of sight a few minutes before someone snatched it up and decided to make it theirs. By making it theirs I mean they went so far as to erase his voicemail message! So now there’s someone out there with his phone and all his data. While my friend was able to shut off service to it and reclaim the phone number, his personal data, email and other stuff is still on there. All the creepy thief needs is a wifi connection and they are able to get into his Facebook account, email and any other app that saves his password. Scary, right?
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Are you keeping your passwords on sticky notes (real or digital)? Maybe in a text edit document as I once did? If so there is this lesser known application called Keychain found in your Utilities folder. Some of you might say “oh yeah it’s that thing Safari asks me about every time I do a system software update”. Yes that would be it, but how many of you have opened up keychain? Did you know you could use it to retrieve some passwords you have forgotten?
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So this isn’t really Mac related but it is incredibly impressive, well to me anyways. My background is advertising, hence my abnormal and irritating knowledge of fonts. With this background I’ve only really used expensive printers. My father recently asked me about business cards and how much they cost to get printed. My initial response was “don’t ask me as we have insanely expensive cards. They are an odd size, 3/2 color with a matte varnish, custom rounded corner as well as an emboss”. The next day my father-in-law sends me a link to a website where he got like 5,000 double sided cards for $80.
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I have visions of my little password with a couple of free weights in its hands. While your Mac has survived against malicious attacks due to security through obscurity, that won’t always be the case. Apple is gaining in popularity and is becoming a larger part of the market share. Why does this matter? If you were a hacker or an evil doer would you waste your time if you only had a 10% shot of your hack working when you have an 80+% shot on it working on a PC? Probably not. What if those numbers start to shift and you have closer to a 45% shot either way? You might hear more and more stories of Macs being hacked or getting viruses. First step to protection is better passwords. I can’t tell you how many computers I come across that have blank passwords due to people not wanting to have to remember yet another password. You don’t have to make it hard on yourself to have a great password. Use this little trick to help your sanity and security.
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Shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts! The more of these little bad boys you know and use the faster you will be. I’ve decided this will be an ongoing list that I will probably add to weekly if not daily. Please feel free to add yours in the comments or twitter them to me @MacfusionGirl
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Did I get your attention? I’m only stretching the truth a little bit as it’s not really a magic wand. Unfortunately that doesn’t exist when it comes to fonts. There is however *poof* Font Nuke. Font Nuke removes font caches. Font caches as I understand them, are supposed to be these little helper files that make it quicker for your apps to load the fonts. If they go corrupt they can cause horrific confusion as it doesn’t matter how many times you purge your fonts and reload them the problems persist as the actual font is fine.
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