From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created […]
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I’m just using the […]
Why do installers often ask you to close all your applications before installing a new software package? Â Does it actually matter whether you have open applications when installing new software? It seems the norm these days is for installers/setup programs to request that you close all open applications before initiating the install process for […]
Normally to remove a file or folder from Time Machine, you would open Time Machine, highlight the file or folder, and then choose Remove from Backup in the options pull down. But to do this with an invisible directory in the Finder by using Go -> Go to Folder… (command-shift-G) and enter the path. Once […]
We’ve known for a while that Google wasn’t actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5: If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted […]
One method to help automate screen sharing with Mac OS X, was to create a vncloc alias for each system that you were connecting to.  In 10.6 this has been mostly automated. To find these shortcuts, navigate to your user’s Library -> Application Support folder, where you’ll find a folder named Screen Sharing. Inside that […]
The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue…. I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… Â The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message… /System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/PreferenceSyncClient –sync […]
First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was […]