By default Mac OS X’s Terminal application uses the Bash shell (Bourne Again SHell) but doesn’t have directory and file colour highlighting enabled to indicateresource types […]

Apple have no way of directly controlling Spaces from Applescript or from the command line so a little bit of slight of […]

Using Screen Screen is started from the command line just like any other command: [admin@gigan admin]$ screen You may or may not […]

A little Automator action to Join PDF’s together Combine PDF

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 — […]

SSH Port Forwarding All too frequently, after people setup a firewall to protect themselves, they discover it sometimes keeps them out as […]

Launching Carbon applications with root privileges Older Carbon applications have to be run via LaunchCFMApp because they are in the wrong binary format […]

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 […]

There is a really nice app by Digital Rebellion that removes FCSvr, Final Cut Studio and a host of other apps and […]

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 […]

Two useful flags you can specify when comparing files are -b (ignore blanks) and -i (ignore case). You can use them separately or in […]