One of the most beautiful aspects of OS X is the support for system wide proxy settings. Configure a proxy in the system preferences, and just about everything uses it automagically. Unforunately, Firefox (and Thunderbird, or so I hear), doesn’t make use of this functionality, meaning you have to configure your proxy twice.
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Automagic Proxy Settings in Firefox
Getting Crypto Into Mail
UPDATE 3-Feb-2009: GPGMail for Leopard is out of beta and now includes a handy script for installing the bundle. You can use that in place of the sub-steps in Step 4.
I’ve been using encrypted email on Windows for a coupla years new, courtesy of Thunderbird and the wonderful Enigmail. Moving to the world of Mac, [...]
DRM, Crypto, and FSF Sillyness
The Free Software Foundation recently released a list of five reasons to avoid the iPhone 3G. The thing that gets me is point two: “iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology.” This seemed perfectly in line with the normal FSF line until I got to thinking about crypto, which is endorsed and supported [...]