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 …
Since i started dual booting either Tiger or Leopard one thing that really annoyed me was that i had to deal with 2 itunes libraries , not being able to have the same thing in itunes no matter what i boot into. Well there is a very elegant and easy fix for that that i …
Everyone has those divx movies , you can play them in quicktime given you have the proper codecs like Perian , but the pesky itunes will not add the files to its library. What we need to do is basically change metadata of files by adding type “MooV” to them , the simplest way to …
OSX is nice , and not because it has no shortcomings , but because you can fix them as opposed to windows.This has a lot to do with the power of osx that stems from it having applescript and a posix compliant shell. Here is how to change metadata of files so you can play …
There are some things the interface will just not tell you , or you just need a textual representation for , so here we go (texts in bold are shell commands to be put into Terminal) open Apple command , opens a file , just as if you had double-clicked the file’s icon , a …