June 11, 2010Tech Completely disable Apple’s quarantine of downloaded files Starting in Leopard (I believe) when you open a file downloaded from […]
June 10, 2010June 10, 2010Tech Fixing SCREEN’s Backspace and Delete Key’s When running screen sometimes there is a problem using the backspace or […]
June 7, 2010June 7, 2010Tech External IP Address for Geektool echo “External IP :” `curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org | awk ‘{print $6}’ | […]
June 7, 2010Tech Uptime for Geektool uptime | awk ‘{sub(“:”, “h “,$3); sub(“,”, “min”,$3); print “Uptime : “$3}’
June 7, 2010June 7, 2010Tech Running processes as background jobs To run a process in the background as a job and carry on […]
June 7, 2010June 7, 2010Tech How to spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to your network card, […]
May 24, 2010May 24, 2010Tech DOF Aperture describes an adjustable opening inside your camera lens that controls the […]
May 24, 2010August 23, 2012Tech Enabling Terminal’s directory and file colour highlighting in Mac OS X By default Mac OS X’s Terminal application uses the Bash shell (Bourne Again SHell) but […]
May 21, 2010May 21, 2010Tech Switching Spaces from the command line Apple have no way of directly controlling Spaces from Applescript or from […]
May 20, 2010Tech Using Screen command Using Screen Screen is started from the command line just like any […]
May 20, 2010May 20, 2010Tech Change ScreenShot Format Here is a little app I knocked up to change the Apple […]
April 9, 2010April 9, 2010Tech Wifi Strength from command line This hint basically does the same job as AP Grapher, but can […]
March 25, 2010Tech SSH Port Forwarding SSH Port Forwarding All too frequently, after people setup a firewall to […]
March 25, 2010Tech Launch Apps With Root Permissions Launching Carbon applications with root privileges Older Carbon applications have to be […]
March 25, 2010April 15, 2010Tech Clear MCX Cache’s 10.5 Upwards Just for reference so I dont forget, goto : /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/computers/ on the […]
March 16, 2010March 30, 2010Tech Final Cut Remover There is a really nice app by Digital Rebellion that removes FCSvr, […]
March 16, 2010March 16, 2010Tech Dialogue’s from a Command Line CocoaDialog is an excellent way of using OS looking Dialogs from the […]
March 16, 2010March 16, 2010Tech QT Ref files Making a Reference Movie from a Text File (XML) You can also […]
March 16, 2010May 21, 2010Tech Using Diff Two useful flags you can specify when comparing files are -b (ignore blanks) […]