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It’s the Little Things: Command Line Improvements to Mac OS X

Written on May 21, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 7 people have commented

Recently, two articles appeared on TechRadar documenting various command line tweaks for various apps and functions of Mac OS X. While I didn’t find anything new there, it’s nice to have two articles that summarize a bunch instead of tracking them down one by one across countless bookmarks.
To be honest, most command line tweaks don’t [...]

Invisibility and Metadata

Written on March 13, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 9 people have commented

I normally avoid anything that looks like tech support in my entries here, but this may verge on an exception. Bear with me, and I’ll explain.
I rebooted my Macbook Pro about four days ago, and lo, to my surprise, the icon for my boot drive had vanished. I was, too say the [...]

Time Machine Scheduler

Written on January 04, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 19 people have commented

It’s fairly well accepted by most commenters at this point that Time Machine may be one of the biggest features to be part of Leopard. Even those users who managed their own backup solutions – and many still do, including myself – applaud it for making backups both easy and intuitive for the average [...]

iPhone unlocking hacks possibly cause irreparable damage

Written on September 24, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 13 people have commented

Today Apple released a statement in regards to the various hacks that unlock the iPhone from being tied to AT&T.
Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future [...]