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If you’re a Mac user who often uses VPN connections, you’ll notice one very disappointing thing about connecting to your corporate or personal network over such tunneled connections: typically, Bonjour-style addresses (such as computer-name.local) don’t work. This is because multicast DNS (or mDNS) doesn’t work over a tunnel. Though there are ways to get it functional, they are pretty complicated and require that you have a lot of esoteric networking knowledge.

However, if the services you typically access via Bonjour use static IP addresses, then there is one age-old networking technique you can use to simulate Bonjour-style naming conventions without actually using Bonjour. This, of course, is the /etc/hosts file.

The /etc/hosts file is a simple, static, text-based mapping of computer names to IP addresses. It does exactly what Bonjour does, except it doesn’t keep itself up to date when things change. Of course, if you’re us…

Rogers announced service plans for the iPhone 3G in Canada today. iPhone 3G combined voice and data plans start at $60 and will be available starting July 11th.

“As the wireless provider voted number one in wireless satisfaction(x), F…

With a future all three parties - Apple, developers and consumers - would like to see as fulfilling, whether and when that might be the case will depend on the answers to some of Kafasis’ questions.

I’m typing so f***ing hard I might break my f***ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!! Oh! Run for your lives! He has a MacBook Air and he’s typing REALLY HARD on it! But not hard enough to break it, thanks to Apple’s superior design and engineering! …

But the Apple references run deeper. Every morning, WALL*E opens up a solar array in order to charge himself up for the workday to come. Hilariously, as soon as he reaches 100 percent power, the classic Mac booting chime goes off. …

Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:

Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with…