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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 03 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/10979#comments">13 comments</a></div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10895" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10895">If you don't have high-speed Internet access, downloading software updates from Apple may be difficult or impossible. Chris Pepper offers a few solutions, both for scheduling when Software Update runs and for working around it entirely.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=12" class="category">Problem Solving</a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 08 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10895#comments">19 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/9854"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9854', 'show')">Send SMS Messages for Free on the iPhone</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 13 Nov 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9049"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9049', 'show')">Securing Communications with SSL/TLS: A High-Level Overview</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9049" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9049">SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are systems for providing security to Internet communications, particularly Web browsing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 25 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8835"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8835', 'show')">MacFUSE Explodes Options for Mac File Systems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8835" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8835">With Amit Singh's release of MacFUSE at Macworld Expo 2007, the Mac now embraces a much broader array of file systems, improving cross-platform compatibility, network connectivity, security, and convenient integration with a variety of online services</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/6730"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6730', 'show')">Mac OS X: Breeds of Programs, Part 3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6730">In the first two installments of this article, we looked first at Apple's proprietary programming environments for Mac OS X - Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa - and then at its cross-platform Unix layer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 25 Feb 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6710"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6710', 'show')">Mac OS X: Breeds of Programs, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6710" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6710">In the previous installment of this article we looked at three of the five breeds of programs that run in Mac OS X: Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa. Those three are most notable because they're used for the majority of current Mac OS X programs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 04 Feb 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6694"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6694', 'show')">Mac OS X: Breeds of Programs, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6694" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6694">As we discuss Apple's new operating system, there's a strong awareness that, no matter how good Mac OS X itself might be, it can't succeed without applications created outside Apple</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 21 Jan 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6234"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6234', 'show')">Unix Coming to a Mac Near You, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6234" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6234">With Mac OS X, Apple is bringing Unix to a large, new audience. In part one of this article, I offered a brief history of Unix and mapped out how Unix will provide the basis of Mac OS X</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 11 Dec 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6227"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6227', 'show')">Unix Coming to a Mac Near You, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6227" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6227">With Mac OS X, Apple is building Unix into the Mac OS, and this has technical, social, and political ramifications for Mac users and the rest of the industry</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 04 Dec 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5291"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5291', 'show')">What's a Firewall, and Why Should You Care?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5291" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5291">One of the best things about the Internet - a legacy of its educational history - is that it lets us share information with people all over the planet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Chris%20Pepper">Chris Pepper</a> | 22 Feb 1999</div></div>