Sometimes I really do use this place as a scratch pad. This is one of those times. Plus, some pretty useful comments.
http://thewoodwhisperer.com/drills-vs-hammer-drills-vs-impact-drivers/
Find your UDID After Installing Beta Firmware
Friday, September 16, 2011
I recently had my iPhone replaced and forgot to register the new UDID. After updating the phone and before registering you won’t be able to get the UDID from the phone or iTunes. Instead, use the “System Information” application found in /Applications/Utilities. If the phone is plugged in to your Mac it should show up under the USB area. Good Luck!
Exchange 2003 with Apple Mail 5
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Apple Mail ver. 5 doesn’t work with Exchange 2003. However, there’s a third-party solution that works pretty well. DavMail is a client that sits between Exchange and Mail. I’m a stickler for efficiency and I hate to waste CPU-cycles, but this worth taking a look at.
DavMail has some pretty handy set-up instructions so I won’t go in to that. One feature I immediately missed was the option of not having DavMail’s App icon in the dock. Here’s how to alleviate that problem.Fire up a terminal and run these commands:
cd /Applications/DavMail.app/Contentscp Info-nodock.plist Info.plist
That’s it. The next time you start DavMail the only hint of it running will be in the menu bar.
Add DavMail to your start-up items to have it automatically start when OS X boots.
Sorting Full Screen Apps in OS X’s Mission Control
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Trying to sort full-screen apps in Lion? Here’s how
- System Preferences
- Mission Control
- Check “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use
This allows you to organize your full-screen apps by alt-tabbing through them (yeah not the greatest).
Bonus:
I’m still trying to get used to the three-finger swipes and accidentally alt-tab once in a while. Alt-tabbing once I have my apps organized ruins everything. I’ve whipped up a automator app that simply toggles the preference for you. Toggle it to turn the preference on, sort your apps and toggle it again to turn the preference off.
I’d love to see what people do with it. Here’s the raw apple-script:
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.expose"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "System Preferences"
--get the name of every checkbox of group 2 of window "Mission Control"
click checkbox "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" of group 2 of window "Mission Control"
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to close every window
Here’s an updated Automator Service that doesn’t show the System Preferences pane when changing the Alt-Tab setting:
- Start Automator
- Choose “Service”
- Select the “Run Shell Script” action
Copy and paste this into the workflow:
current_value=$(defaults read com.apple.dock mru-spaces)
if [ $current_value = 1 ]
then
defaults write com.apple.dock mru-spaces -bool No
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Automatically Rearrange is Turned Off"
else
defaults write com.apple.dock mru-spaces -bool Yes
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Automatically Rearrange is Turned On"
fi
killall Dock
Westell UltraLine Series3 Model 9100EM
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
So I just changed ISPs from Time Warner to Verizon and all I can say is “wow this router is a dog.” It’s probably the worst piece of junk I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen routers come from the Soviet Union with better software on them. The interface is a cludge, you’re constantly forced to click “yes I’m really sure I want to do xyz” constantly, and the clicky bits aren’t actually attached to anything!
If you’re like me and your banging your head against a wall trying to get port forwarding working… keep banging. I’ve managed to get port 22 to forward to a linux box but that’s about it.
Here’s a screen cast, and here’s a post about it.
Update:
Here’s a great post on bridging the Westell 9100EM
I’d love to hear if you’ve had more luck.
Backwoods Home Magazine
Monday, July 13, 2009
Backwoods Home Magazine is dedicated to the promotion of a more self-reliant living style. Everything from the ammo shortage to how to buy a used mobile home.
Full Screen Terminal Keyboard Command on a Mac
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough.
In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts
Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal.
Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes.
Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f.
Restart the terminal.
Another keyboard shortcut I use with the Terminal is Select Previous Tab command + left arrow, and Select Next Tab command + right arrow.
Synergy (running in the background on a Mac 10.5+)
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Synergy is an application that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse between several different computers (Windows, Linux, and OS X). Unfortunately, running synergy in the background on a mac doesn’t work so well. Here’s one of the work-arounds I’ve found on the Internet.
This involves running the app through launchctl a replacement for rc.d/ scripts in linux.
- Succesfully get synergy running (server and client) in the foreground
- Download the appropriate file and change .txt to .plist . On the server use the file synergys.txt, on the client use the file synergyc.txt
- In synergys.plist and synergyc.plist you’ll need to point to the correct location of your installed synergy program and .conf file.
- In synergyc.plist you’ll need to change “server-host-name” to the correct server host name
- Move this file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
- run the following two commands (change synergyc.plist to synergys.plist for the server)
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/synergyc.plist
launchctl start com.synergyc