NOTE: If you're using passwords in shell scripts, see Daniel Jalkut's reply below about using OS X's built-in security command instead of his AppleScript library.
One of my goals for the new year1 is to be more security minded in my use of technology. This is a broad statement …
I'd like to follow up on a previous post covering BitTorrent Sync. In this post, I mentioned privacy is one of the advantages afforded by BitTorrent Sync over traditional cloud storage options, such as Dropbox. Like most cloud storage options, data are encrypted during transmission with BitTorrent Sync.1 Once …
My research requires that I work in multiple locations: in the lab, at a multi-institution shared instrument facility, and sometimes in my fuzzy slippers at home. Having my data and processing scripts updated on whatever computer I happen to be using is critical to my ability to get work done …
Previously, I posted about using Growl in combination with Prowl to get remote notifications of experiment progress on both a Mac and iPhone. Later that day, I started thinking about some improvements to the script after a brief Twitter conversation with Seth Brown.1
The script depends on the remote …
In addition to covering my use of python in research, one of my goals for this blog is to share ways I use various other computational tools to automate basic research tasks. Such an opportunity arose this week with the onset of hardware issues causing one of our laboratory's NMR …