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Create a Mountain Lion Install DVD or USB Drive after App Store purchase
Once you’ve purchased Mountain Lion from the App Store, follow these steps to create a backup install DVD or flash drive Download Lion from the Mac App Store—but don’t install it yet, because of the disappearing installer issue noted above. Find the installer in your Applications folder and right-click on it then select “Show Package…
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SSH to your remote machine using Back to My Mac iCloud Service
This is kinda cool. It only works if you have access to “Back to My Mac” service and you have it turned on in the remote mac’s preferences (under iCloud preferences). If you ever need to find out the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of your remote mac and connect to it via ssh or…
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Turn off Parallels Promo Ads….
This has been driving me mad ever since I started using Parallels Desktop for Mac. The damn promo screen that keeps popping up to sell me some crapware. Well here is a quick defaults command to turn it off defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES Done…..Enjoy :-)
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Using iCloud to sync files just like dropbox
If you didn’t know, iCloud has a really neat feature that allows it to act just like dropbox. If you activate the “Document & Data” synching option in the iCloud pref panel, it allows you to sync any file using iCloud. This is contrary to what Apple is selling the service as being just for…
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Adding mcrypt support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add mcrypt support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Adding GD support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add GD support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Optimizing Snow Leopard for SSD drives….
I just installed a new 128GB SSD drive in my older C2D 17″ macbook Pro and let me tell you….WOW….This thing is on fire. The system is extremely responsive and apps literally jump onto the screen. The machine now boots up to full desktop in roughly 17 seconds. Now that’s nice. I did do a…
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TSIA
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Map any network drive to Mac OS X that auto mounts after system reboot
Here is a quick recipe for making a network drive auto mount on your OSX machine. This works with pretty much any protocol supported by Finders “Connect to Server” option. Here is how you do it: From the Finder, hit Command+K or select Connect to Server from the Go menu. You’ll see the following window,…
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Reset iTunes 10 window control buttons
Not sure what’s happening lately in the Apple UI design department. Someone over there decided to reposition the window control buttons (you know x,-,+ aka. close,minimize,maximize) vertically in the latest itunes10 (see pics below). If you prefer the old (proper) way of having them ordered horizontally (see picture above), you can use the commands below:…