• Mac OS X,  Mac Security,  MobileMe

    SMIME in OS X Lion

    In a previous article I showed how to get and install an SMIME certificate. Now let’s look at installing it into Mail. It’s really, really hard. First, open Mail. Then, click on the Mail menu and select Preferences. Then click on Accounts. Then click on the account you got an SMIME cert for. Then, in the TLS box, select the certificate you want to use. Next, go to compose a new message. You will see the little disclosure triangle to the left of the From dialog. Click on it and then check the box for the lock and the icon to the right of that, meant to look like a…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X

    MobileMe iDisk Update

    Version 1.1 of the MobileMe iDisk app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now out. It does the following: Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB (up from 200MB) Faster downloads Various bug fixes Localizations for Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

  • Mac OS X,  MobileMe

    Flow: Amazon S3, iDisk

    Flow is a nice little FTP client. But it also supports WebDAV and SFTP as well as Amazon’s S3 and mounting an iDisk from a Mobile Me account. Unlike JungleDisk it doesn’t seem to mount S3 as an actual disk in Mac OS X, but it can be used to take files from iDisk to S3, which is fairly interesting. Flow also supports discovering all of the local services over Bonjour, which can be pretty helpful. Overall, it’s a nice little application that’s pretty sleek and I look forward to seeing where they go with it.