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Wednesday 24 December 2014

How to better manage passwords with Keychain Access

If you’ve ever encountered a dialog box that, upon asking for a password, offers to store it, you’ve had a brush with OS X’s keychain.

Monday 15 December 2014

Apple-1 sold by Steve Jobs fetches $365,000 at auction

Apple’s beginnings in a Los Altos, Calif. garage are the stuff of legend. Steve Jobs sold the first Apple computers, dubbed Apple-1, out of his parents’ garage for $666.66 a pieceapple 1 christies
Jobs and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak only made about 200 units, and on Thursday the last known Apple-1 to be sold by Jobs out of the garage was auctioned off for $365,000.
Christie’s auction house expected the fully functional computer, sold by Jobs to Charles Ricketts in 1976, to sell for $400,000 to $600,000, so the final selling price is a bit disappointing. Apple-1 units sold in recent years have commanded wildly disparate prices.
In October, The Henry Ford snagged an Apple-1 for display at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan for $905,000, almost double the high-end estimate. Auction house Bonhams said that computer might have been one of the first 50 produced in the Jobs family garage. It was also in mint condition with no modifications.
An Apple-1 registry keeps track of existing units and their whereabouts and pegs the number of remaining computers at 63, give or take a few. Most of those units don’t work, though the one sold Thursday is still operational. In 2012, an Apple-1 unit sold for $640,000 while another fetched $374,500 at auction.

Sunday 14 December 2014

Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product

It’s not that I don’t like Apple’s current hardware and software, but I fondly recall the days when its computers were suffused with a chirpy, cheerful personality.

Saturday 13 December 2014

How to recover passwords with Keychain Access

f you’re the kind of upstanding person I believe you to be, over the coming holidays you’re going to spend some time with family and friends. And because you’re the kind of person who watches videos like this, you’re probably one of the tech savvier people they know. And because you are, sure enough you’re going to get this question:
“I need to get into my old email account but I can’t remember the password. What should I do?”
Sure, you could go through the steps to request a new password if it’s offered, but maybe you can avoid all that with this simple tip.
Launch Keychain Access, search for the name of the account you want to discover the password for, double-click on it, and an information window will appear. Enable the Show password option and you’ll be prompted for the user password for that account. Enter it and click Allow. The password will appear in the appropriate field.
You then pass along that password to the person you’re helping. If you’re not terribly trustworthy you might suggest that after you leave they take steps to change that password.

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