Ever since yesterday’s defaults write question and then post, I have been doing some fun research on what else is possible with defaults write Note:Most of these changes require you to restart the finder after entering these into Terminal.app killall Finder. change your screenshot file format: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleScreenShotFormat JPEG or TIFF or PNG […]
A Mac OS X/UNIX newbie asked me if there was any way to show all the hidden files in Mac OS X so that he could browse the UNIX directories when using the Finder. Since there may be others out there that have the same need/want I thought I would share an easy way to […]
I bought my iPod back in 2002. It is big and bulky, but trouble free for four years. Last week when I tried to scroll through the menus to chose a song to listen to, my screen went faint, and would only show contrast upon getting to certain points in the menu. When connected to […]
Getting rid of tables is extrememly satisfying to me when working with HTML. Fewer tables: cleaner code, easier to maintain code (throw away those WYSIWYG editors), faster loading code, and personally is very satidfying after years of cluttered and extraneous code from GoLive. I spent a good chunk of time today getting rid of hundres […]
Whoa. Not only is there a Worldwide Newton Conference there is also a beta out of the Newton OS port on arm-linux. Now we are talking! [tags]Newton OS, Apple Newton, WWNC[/tags]
I have had a .Mac account since the beginning (and a “forever free .Mac email address” since the keynote that announced it) but have never really used the Backup application regularly. I have gone back and forth with using rsync at home (with my Solaris machine), but I have to say this latest release is […]
podcasts: I am a workaholic. I stop to take the dog out, eat, and watch Guiding Light. My grandmother listened to it on the radio. My mother watched it on the TV, and now, I can make the next jump in technology…CBS is now offering each episode as a podcast. iPod nano: Good work Apple. […]
Not sure if anyone else has accidentally done what I just did, but I got a kick out of it and thought I would share. I looking at a web site in Safari and decided I wanted to grab the URL and drag it onto my desktop for later use. Instead, I heard the “poof” […]
If you ever use Mac OS X client as a file server, or any type of server where you want some users to have access to SSH and others not, you can easily make it happen by using our old friend NetInfo Manager Applications > Utilities > NetInfo Manager. You can, very quickly, make sure […]
I had the task of taking apart a friend’s Dual USB iBook, and since the hardware was not mine, I wanted to make sure I was careful and knew the shortest amount of steps to successfully upgrade her hardrive. I found a great resource I wanted to share called the FixIt Guide. You can choose […]
Today is a day of birthdays…Salsa and the iMac. Salsa celebrated her fifth birthday with unlimited cat nip and wet food. My iMac took the day off and relaxed all day to celebrate his birthday 😉
Well…after years and years of friends having a multi-button mouse, a mouse with a scroll wheel, and laughing at me and my love for my Apple mouse, Apple releases the Mighty Mouse. I always said I would use whatever Apple provided, and nothing-no matter how cool or how much I was missing out in my […]
