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 …
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 …
It is common belief that Perl is the language of choice for the purpose of data processing and manipulation , and i couldn’t agree more , having been turning to it every time i needed some serious data processing , only to get the best results at each undertaking. However back then in 99 when …
Google without advertisments or adwords http://www.google.com/ie the bad part with the adfree search is that you do not have a advanced search option however you can put manually the options in the url like this http://www.google.com/ie?num=100 the url above for example shows 100 finds per page and to not have to write all the options …