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Here is a little app I knocked up to change the Apple Screenshot Format ScreenShot Changer

This hint basically does the same job as AP Grapher, but can be run from the command line or over SSH — so I was able to have someone else carry my MacBook Pro around the shed while I stayed near the wireless router and fiddled with its antennas. I ssh’d into my MacBook Pro […]

SSH Port Forwarding All too frequently, after people setup a firewall to protect themselves, they discover it sometimes keeps them out as well. There are several solutions to consider when this comes up: 1. Poke holes in the firewall with firewall rules (if the firewall is under your control). 2. Use a virtual private network […]

Launching Carbon applications with root privileges Older Carbon applications have to be run via LaunchCFMApp because they are in the wrong binary format for Mac OS X, so LaunchCFMApp handles the necessary translation. To launch a Carbon application directly (without using open), one has to actually run LaunchCFMApp, giving it the application as an argument: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/Current/Support/LaunchCFMApp […]

Just for reference so I dont forget, goto : /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/computers/ on the client and remove the plists Reboot the mac and the MCX settings will be gone 5836 Ravensbourne Network Design v1_0

There is a really nice app by Digital Rebellion that removes FCSvr, Final Cut Studio and a host of other apps and files. Check it out here. One thing I noticed is that the app does not remove the fcsvr local user. This is mentioned in Apple’s “best practices” document. sudo dscl localhost delete /Local/Default/Users/fcsvr

CocoaDialog is an excellent way of using OS looking Dialogs from the command line CocoaDialog Site

Making a Reference Movie from a Text File (XML) You can also create a .qtl reference movie by typing three lines of text using a text editor or word processor. Actually, you can copy and paste the first two lines because they’re always the same. The syntax may seem a little cryptic, but the process […]

Two useful flags you can specify when comparing files are -b (ignore blanks) and -i (ignore case). You can use them separately or in combination. The ignore blanks feature is especially useful when you’re comparing the source code for two programs, since indentation changes are rarely significant. For example, here’s how you might compare two program files, ur2cool.c and ur2cool.backup: diff […]