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Unbeknownst to most, your when you provide your user name and password to the Google Notifier for either Gmail or the Google Calendar you are transmitting those credentials in plain text. In order to secure your credentials, you need to configure the Google Notifier to transmit your credentials via secure http (https). To do, follow the directions in this article on macosxhints.com. I have discussed security in regards to Gmail before (see: “Secure your Gmail“), but that wasn’t necessarily in regards to the notifier.

While this may not seem all that important to you, just take a moment to consider how much of your personally identifiable information is transmitted through email. Without securing your credentials, you are inviting anyone to sniff your packets and pull any information that they want.

As far as I know, this little tip only works on the wonder-filled Mac OSX operating system.

As many of you know, I work in the IT field. The shop that I am in is all Microsoft, from the servers to the workstations. I recently became a Mac OSX convert as a result of my work with Ruby on Rails. I reached digital nirvana this evening when I was able to rather easily connect to my work’s network via our Cisco VPN and then remotely administer one of Windows servers using Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection for Mac OSX. This means that I don’t ever, ever, ever, ever need a Windows machine! Yay! (screenshot provided for the naysayers)