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Rick Tech
http://www.1nova.com/blog
A Professional IT worker's take on various parts of the IT industry. Also exploration, discussion, and reviews of various interesting technology.
Recent Posts
How To: Check Apple Warranty Status via ARD
Here is an awesome little script by Scott Russell of the University of Notre Dame. Using the “send Unix command” in Apple Remote Desktop, it can pull the system’s serial number, send the information to Apple’s Warranty Website...
OS X 10.6.2 update released
For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the ...
Latest Macheist bundle – Totally Free!
Macheist is running another contest, but this time it is totally free. Yes, no money down, nothing to buy, ever (if you don’t want too.) The apps that they have are ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterrific, TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs, and if enough peo...
Facebook and Adium Issues
In the latest round of issues with Facebook, users of the popular OS X chat program Adium are now having issues connecting to their Facebook chat. Apparently Facebook made some changes to their chat interface without warning anyone. The Adium blog re...
Apple’s embedded Ads
Today’s issue of Business Standard talks about a new patent from Apple which seems to put ads directly into a operating system. The part that is galling is where it could interrupt operations such as opening a web browser or launching a program...
How To: Check your computer’s IP address
An IP address is a number that identifies devices connected to a network. In short every single computer, mobile phone, printer, server, etc, connected to the Internet is assigned a unique address. Note that this is totally different then a MAC addre...

