One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 17 March 2004

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Faster User Switching of a different kind

Many people may be familiar with the su UNIX command and its sibling sudo. This allows a user to do stuff as the "root user." However, the su command can also be used to change the identity of a user (and thus have access t... [macosxhints]

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Last update: 16/03/04; 08:47:55 EDT

Scripting, Blogging, Softwares...

• CocoaMySQL: CocoaMySQL is an application used to manage MySQL databases (locally or over the internet). It lets you add and remove databases and tables, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform custom queries and dump tables or entire databases. -> Open Source.

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Just about everyone looks great behind a cursor, but the days of communicating online exclusively with text are numbered. So Snaggy and Nitrozac offer their brand of advice on how to look great on iChat AV, in spite of iSight. With tips on proper lighting, camera angles, and using the right foundation, Snaggy and Nitrozac offer more of the high-tech humor you've come to know and love in their comic and in their book, The Best of The Joy of Tech. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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Apple has introduced a new accessibility solution for visually impaired users that it will integrate with the next major release of Mac OS X. The company took the wraps off of the new technology today: It's called Spoken Interface for Mac OS X. To find out more, MacCentral recently spoke with Mike Shebanek, Apple product manager for Mac OS X. [MacCentral]