Un-quarantine downloaded files on OS X

Though I agree in principle with the idea of marking downloaded files as hazardous, it can be quite annoying when, say, extracting piles and piles of W3C documentation for future reference — especially when opening some index.html pops up a dialog box about a downloaded application. The “downloaded application” marker OS X puts [...]

Automatic Backup of USB Drive

I’ve started to keep some regularly-updated critical information on my USB thumb drive. Apple’s Time Machine doesn’t seem to be willing to back up external disks (or at least VFAT-formatted external disks). I figured I’d piggyback on Time Machine’s hourly backups by using rsync to copy the thumb drive periodically to my MacBook’s [...]