Category: OSX

  • So you locked yourself out of your Mac….

    It’s actually quite easy to reset the admin account using the install CD, but what do you do if you don’t have the CD? Well there are two ways of doing it. This is the simple way, but only works in 10.4.x+: Reboot Hold down Apple + s down when you hear the chime (this…

  • Mac OS X Leopard Server features

    In addition to discussing several new features for the consumer edition of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple has disclosed some new functionality for Mac OS X 10.5 Server, also scheduled to ship in October. Among them: a wiki server; Podcast Producer; Spotlight (find content stored on other servers); and a new iCal Server, based…

  • One more thing….

    Itunes download package for windows just grew in size. You will now be force fed Safari as part of this download. I have absolutely no idea why the hell apple would want to do this….or for that matter, why would I want to run Safari under windows. I thought the Mac guy was supposed to…

  • Keynote….

    Okay so Stevie did his keynote…..10 “new” things about Apple’s OSX Leopard. Well more like 3 news things and 7 recycled things….you decide: New Desktop (New Menu bar, New Dock, Stacks, consistent window look, prominent active window). New Finder (New sidebar, search other macs and servers, shared computers, back to my mac, cover flow). Quicklook…

  • WWDC Day1 – Keynote

    Started lineing up at 7:00 am this morning. Front of the line people actually were here at 5:00 am….Now that takes some dedication. NOT ME!!!! Anyways some shots of the massive lines outside/inside and upstairs at the Moscone West. It’s 8:40 am right now and we’re all waiting….good pastaries, lots of coffee and juice…..YUM!!!

  • San Francisco here I come….

    So I’m back at my hotel –after getting my badge, bag, t-shirt and dinner– and am getting ready to go to bed early. Need to be in line for WWDC keynote tomorrow at 6:00 am. Now that is fully 3 hours before the keynote, I better get a seat in the main Ballroom. We’ll see…

  • OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

    Head over to rixstep.com and have a peek at their list, detailing a ton of keyboard shortcuts for OS X (and also ones for Windows XP). The list has your standard shortcuts and some “super secret” ones that the author has collected overtime. Did you know you can hold down the “shift” key after login…

  • Alt-TAB application switching

    This is one of the only things I’d missed about windows, since I started using OSX….the Alt-TAB application switching behaviour. I know, you can do switching under OSX using Command-TAB, but it’s just not the same. That’s where witch comes in. It’s a totally configurable donationware app that once loaded allows you to use Alt-TAB…

  • HDHomeRun: Multicast

    Using hdhomerun_config command you issue the following (after tuning into the channel ofcourse): 1) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/target none2) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/channel qam:a) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/streaminfo3) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/program4) hdhomerun_config set /tuner0/target MCast Address is in range of: 224.0.0.0 –> 239.255.255.255

  • HDHomeRun: Monitoring Signal Strength from command line

    The Windows GUI version of hdhomerun_config will display the signal strength and signal quality updating every second. Under linux or osx you can use “watch” with hdhomerun_config:hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF get /tuner0/channel 8vsb:watch hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF get /tuner0/status (If you have more than one HDHomeRun then specify the device ID rather than FFFFFFFF)