Turn Off Shadows From OSX Screenshots

I take a lot of screenshots in OSX  (⌘+shift+4) to share and for the longest time I just lived with the 2003-era super cool shadow: I finally got tired of it and found the solution to turning it off is these two terminal commands: defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true killall SystemUIServer Now my screenshots … Read more

RandomMAC.py

I spend a lot of time working in the starbucks near my office.  It is a great place to slip away from the office for an hour when I need to do some heads down work but dont want to be completely anti-social.  Even though I always use a VPN one thing that always bothered my … Read more

Remove CNNIC from OSX

After reading a few stories like this “Apple Leaves CNNIC Root in iOS, OSX Certificate Trust Lists” that didnt include instructions on how to remove them yourself I wrote a quick and ugly bash script that automatically removes the CNNIC and the China Internet Network Information Center EV Certificates Root certificates from OSX.  You can download it here. Use … Read more