Resource forks are a strange beast, while Apple started moving away from them (around 10.4) and migrated to HFS Attributes, software like Adobe’s Photoshop still save (can be disabled in Preferences > File Handling) file previews as resource forks, here is a refresher on how to view, find and delete resource forks. You can see is a file has …
It’s a brave new sandboxing world they say and that brings about many implications good and bad
In 2010 Apple introduced a feature in MacBooks with the aim of extending battery life “Automatic graphics switching” that switches between using either the integrated Intel GPU inside the CPU or the standalone discrete AMD/Nvidia GPU. The exact conditions however that make it switch one or the other were never clearly stated by Apple, and there …
Sparkle is the updates framework for cocoa that “just works” , yea ok it does , however the documentation for it is a bit lacking on some very important aspects that i discovered over time : 1 – the preferences for your application must have SUAutomaticallyUpdate TRUE for autoupdates to happen , just setting SUEnableAutomaticChecks …
Personally i think a gesture enabled mouse is a great move, and am looking forward to seeing it implemented in more mice, besides the mighty mouse i have been using a Logitech Air mouse which has a touch scroll with momentum which i miss dearly when using the mighty mouse, i am sure the same …
Wether you like to have a file manager running as root , need a file manager that can really dig into the guts of the os or are just nostalgic for the good ole 2 pane commanders , either way you got to have mc handy on your brand new 64 bit osx. There are …
Itunes has a shared library feature but does not show you who and what is it sharing to.So lets start terminal and type : lsof |grep iTunes |grep TCP You can also find out what they are listening to by doing lsof | grep mp3 Now how about for a little fun , say your …
By default OSX comes with the industry standard apache web server , only OSX server comes with a mysql server however and none are configured my default for php. Fortunately enabling both php and installing mysql is trivial on OSX compared even to linux 1 – enable php in apache (basically edit the config file …
Here it is , the first precompiled version of google’s Chrome browser for OSX , whether you want to test your pages in it , or just take a firsthand look of the development so far on the mac version be aware that this is a very early revision and very unstable , for example …
For every folder you open in Finder it saves a .DS_Store file in that folder with the window settings , here is a easy way to get rid of them (texts in bold are shell commands to be put into Terminal ) the command recursively traverses all the directories , you can replace all the …