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1.0Eject a stubborn .dmg
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4.2Run IE on OS X
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8.2Make your extensions compatible with Firefox 3
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1.0Tweaking Leopard
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10.0Make your stacks look awesome!
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1.0Fupi URLs, because longer isn’t always better…
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5.2Midnight Inbox
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6.2Mac Character Keys
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7.0The Fastest Airport Transfers Are One Way
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1.0Handbrake has been updated
- Right-click context menu and services
- hackaddict.net: Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD
- How To: Mimic Stacks in Mac OS X Tiger - Lifehacker
- Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
- Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive
Sunday December 30th, 2007
1.0
Eject a stubborn .dmg
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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I’ve run into the odd time that Finder will refuse to eject a .dmg file. I found that you can force an eject using the terminal using the following command:
hdiutil detatch ImageName
For the ImageName part, it’s easy enough to type the first letter and then hit tab to auto-complete the dmg name.
Friday November 30th, 2007
4.2
Run IE on OS X
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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You can have several versions of IE installed side by side… try that on a PC ;). Once You’re done with IE, drag it to the trash, and it’s gone. ies4osx makes use of wine to install and run IE. And wine needs a Intel processor…
ies4osx
Thursday November 22nd, 2007
8.2
Make your extensions compatible with Firefox 3
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Using the nightly tester tools extension, you can make all of your plugins compatible with the latest version of firefox. Simply install the plugin, then go to tools->add ons and click the “make all compatible button at the bottom.
If you want to install new extensions that might not be compatible, open up the preferences [...]
Monday November 19th, 2007
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Tweaking Leopard
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Here are a bunch of little tweaks you can make to leopard from the command line in terminal.
Usingmac.com - Leopard Tweaking - Terminal Codes
Monday November 12th, 2007
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Make your stacks look awesome!
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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“Stacks is pretty much Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the icon representing the stack is whatever the top file in the folder happens to be really ruins it (for me at least). However, if you haven’t yet given up [...]
Monday October 15th, 2007
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Fupi URLs, because longer isn’t always better…
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Fupi URLs are are short URLs that automatically redirect to destinations that you choose. By creating a Fupi URL you can add destinations with long URLs to programs like Twitter, Pownce or send them along in emails. You can also password protect your Fupi URL. The url fupi.us only takes up 7 characters making [...]
Friday October 5th, 2007
5.2
Midnight Inbox
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Been getting frustrated with the interface for iGTD, so last night I went looking for an alternate (non-web based) solution. I found Midnight Inbox while searching the Lifehacker archives, watched the screencast and decided to purchase. So far, I’ve been pretty happy.
Midnight Inbox helps you work smarter, not harder, by organizing your projects, email [...]
Tuesday August 21st, 2007
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Mac Character Keys
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Mac character keys, a handy reference for all of the extra characters that keystrokes can generate on a mac. I was going to post something like this about a month ago, but their version is much much better (and more handy).
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The Fastest Airport Transfers Are One Way
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Even on an 802.11g network you can achieve some pretty fast transfers between your Macs & PC’s, provided one detail: one of the computers you’ll be transferring to or from is hard-wired via Ethernet.
Every wireless network has a threshold of bandwidth available on it which is somewhat in flux, due to the distances the connections [...]
Monday August 20th, 2007
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Handbrake has been updated
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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There’s a new version of Handbrake out, featuring improved UI, speed enhancements and presets for a portable devices.
Thursday July 26th, 2007
Right-click context menu and services
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Like Theron, I’ve been exploring the use of various organizational apps to figure out what suits me for my dissertation note-taking. After uninstalling Journaler, I noticed that it left an item in Finder’s right-click context menu. For those that don’t want such artificats, it’s relatively simple to remove. In finder, browse to ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ and [...]
Friday July 13th, 2007
hackaddict.net: Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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hackaddict.net: Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD
Thursday June 14th, 2007
How To: Mimic Stacks in Mac OS X Tiger - Lifehacker
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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How To: Mimic Stacks in Mac OS X Tiger - Lifehacker
Monday June 4th, 2007
Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Twitterrific is a fun little application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop.
Thursday May 24th, 2007
Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive
From OS X Hacker, 1 year ago,
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Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive | You don’t really understand the importance of backups until your hard drive crashes. With most backups, you’ll need to reinstall the operating system and then restore all of your data. OS X comes with a handy tool that will let you create a [...]