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How to change the default SSH port in OSX Server
So you don’t want to have your remote login port (ssh port) on your OSX server setup to port 22. You can easily change the listening port doing the following 2 steps. There is no need to add another service.
First you will need to edit your Lion Services file:sudo nano /etc/services
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WinSCP program for Mac
WinSCP is a great program for Windows that will give you a GUI interface to manage files on a remote server when all you can use to connect is SSH. Having grown fond of this program a colleague was sad to find there was no version for MAC. After playing with several different options, they ended up settling on using the FireFTP extension for Firefox and connecting via SFTP to the remote server. To setup FireFTP to use SFTP on the MAC you need to do a few things first.
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How to control Windows with Apple Remote Desktop
If you do not want to use the Microsoft Remote Desktop application as detailed here. You can do the following to allow you to control Windows via Apple’s Remote Desktop application.
Install RealVNC Server (www.realvnc.com or www.tightvnc.com) on your Windows PC.
Once installed it will appear in the tray area of the taskbar or in your program files, select options and set a password, and adjust any necessary settings.
Now on Apple Remote Desktop you can connect to the Windows PC via the IP address. You will have remote control and view capabilities but no other Apple Remote Desktop features such as remote install.
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Rails and the iPhone
With the growing Rails and iPhone communities, many developers seek ways to easily interact with their Rails applications on their iPhones. Enter ObjectiveResource, a framework for interacting with Rails on your iPhone. Go to iphoneonrails.com to learn more.
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-services of any language from the iPhone.