I do a lot of work that requires me to log in and out of remote machines using SSH. As a result, I prefer to configure my laptop (working machine) to SSH without prompting for a password on those machines I know to be secure. Here's how to do it.

Being a bit of a Mac fan, I casually mentioned to my wife the upcoming (and generally eagerly awaited) Macworld conference. I then went on to mention that I'll be buying Leopard when it comes out. Julie's response: Didn't you buy it last year? Me: No, that was Tiger. Julie: How many big cats are there? Good point!

It's a sad day in the Sharp / Mac camp today. Julie has been driving me to the station each morning since we moved (I'll post about that when I've got the Internet back) - but this morning she had a day off, and rightly I would be walking to the station. After doing my morning [...]

Every I know has compiled a list of some sort, top 10 films, top 10 girlfriends, top 10 top 10s. Here's my top 10. The Mac apps that are absolute essentials to the daily running of my Mac a little review of each app. To offer some context, I'm a web programmer dabbling in [...]

I've just done my voting for My Dream App (Cookbook by the way - really want to get my hands on it!) and each week of voting there's a free app to be downloaded. This week the free app was Voice Candy. It's a fun little, with perhaps not a very long life expectancy, unless you plan [...]

Recently Apple brought out the latest update to iTunes - with the promise of cool features: cover flow, gapless playback and other bits and bobs. Some users have reported bugs in the new version (I even spotted one†), but little did Andrew, an old school friend, realise that the biggest feature he would benefit from would [...]

Generally when you say you've done your browser testing it will mostly take place on a PC, and at the very least, it will be IE†. † No matter how much we developers or designers complain that IE isn't standards compliant, and Firefox is the way, the World still prefers IE (at time of writing!). However, being [...]