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Backwoods Home Magazine

sarvinc — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:14:41 +0000

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.

Custom Ringtones and SMS alerts for hacked iPhones

sarvinc — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:04:36 +0000

This is really here for me to keep track of.

Life in 0 and 1 has a nice little tutorial on how to change SMS alerts on a hacked iPhone.

This is for hacked iPhones only. You can pick up quickpwn here

Dissable Spotlight in OS 10.5

sarvinc — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:07:28 +0000

This is really here for me to find later, hope this helps others:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892

iPhone Ringtones

sarvinc — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:16:34 +0000

If you’re not up to making your own ringtones for the iPhone with Garageband you should try out Audiko. Audiko, has pre-made ringtones as mp3s, m4r (for the iPhone), and AMR-nb formatted are all available.

N.B. The file SentMessage.caf is used for the sent SMS tone.

Backup data using Amazon’s S3 on the Mac

sarvinc — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:26:38 +0000

There are other solutions to backups not involving Amazon’s S3. If you insist on using S3, this seems like the easiest solution, the comments hold particular value; suggested usage includes rdiffs and swapping out launchd for Automator and ical.

Read the article here.

Some useful OS X hacks

sarvinc — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:47:50 +0000

Lighten OS X’s Load with:

Turn off widgets:
In a terminal type:defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock

You can turn widgets back on with:defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO killall Dock

Make hidden apps ( in 10.5) look transparent:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
killall Dock

Internet Connection Sharing with OS X

sarvinc — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:46:03 +0000

With OSX this is brain-dead simple. To share an Internet connection through the AirPort, go to System Preferences and click on the Sharing item. Highlight “Internet Sharing” from the list on the left (but leave it unchecked). Next, select the connection you wish to share, from the drop down list and how you would like to share.

Full Filenames in the Finder

sarvinc — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:04:29 +0000

By running the two commands below, in a terminal, it’s possible to get OS X’s Finder to display the current full path as the window’s title.
$ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES $ killall Finder
It’s not possible to edit or “grab” the path. Power users might like the Finder’s “Path Bar” more. You can enable the Path Bar through “View -> Show Path Bar”

Build wget for the Mac

sarvinc — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:19:17 +0000

Looks like Apple has neglected to include the command line tool wget for a while now. I was able to find a precompiled binary for 10.4, but 10.5 is so recent that it looks like wget hasn’t make it’s way on to the tubes. If you’re looking for wget why not build it yourself? The install is pretty straight forward with no modifications or file editing required. Directions are as follows:

Install Apple’s Dev Tools.
Download wget’s source.
Unpack the download: tar xzvf wget-1.12.tar.gz
Open a terminal and “cd” in to the unpacked wget directory
Configure the build with ./configure
Start the build process with make
Finish the install with sudo make install

You should be able to find wget in /usr/local/bin . I’ve confirmed that this works with 10.5.1 Leopard on PowerPC and Intel processors.

You can download my pre-compiled binary Intel Binary and
Power PC binary

Build Your Own UPS

sarvinc — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:12:42 +0000

This article doesn’t need much explanation and I’m eager to attempt it. Mike Howes at Icrontic has written an awesome how-to.