People do “accidental deletion” all the time. And because the accidentally deleted files will be kept in the “Trash” folder until you really delete it, you can drag the files you still want to keep back to their original folder. But doing that manually over and over again can be annoying. Now in Snow Leopard, you can right click (or Control + Click) on the poor files, choose “Put Back”, and file/folder will be recovered in original place.
tags: trash
On a Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, you can give your computer a custom audio alert instead of using the generic tones installed by default on your computer. As long as the audio clips are AIFF format, Mac OS X allows you to use all kinds of clips, including musical tracks, a voiceover, or musical theme. Get creative and add your favorite alert sound to your operating system.
Step1: Open folder with custom sounds
Navigate to the “~/Library/Sounds” folder in “Finder” Command+Shift+G. The “~/Library/Sounds” folder contains all the custom ...(continue read)
tags: music, sounds, system preferences
To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you have two ways
First Way “create a new admin account”
Reboot
Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
Second way “Resetting or changing your existing password”
If you’ve ...(continue read)
tags: password, security
Requirements:
Home folder to be encrypted.
Don’t need my Time Machine disk to be encrypted
First, make sure your Time Machine setup is functioning properly.
The XCode installed, as it uses Property List Editor
(Note: you’ll need to change the process a bit if you use a different property list editor.)
How to do that:
You will need to manually edit the preference file for Time Machine, adding the ID string of your File Vault disk to the list of disks to backup. You can’t do this from within System Preferences or otherwise.
One way of finding the ID string of the disk is ...(continue read)
tags: backup, security, time machine
1 month ago Google announced on their official blog that they were offering the use of their DNS server to the public.
Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we’re launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out.
Why use Google’s DNS?
The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. This can slow down the browsing experience. Google have suggested that using their DNS will speed up internet usage and browsing.
Using ...(continue read)
tags: dns, google, internet
One of the unwelcome changes in Snow Leopard, who use certain third-party LCD displays, was the gross simplification of the font smoothing options in the Appearance System Preferences panel.
In Leopard (10.5), a pop-up menu provided a number of options for font smoothing—automatic, standard, light, medium (“best for LCD”), and strong.
In Snow Leopard (10.6), though, that’s been simplified down to simply a yes or no option: “Use LCD font smoothing when available.”
In practice, however, that’s not the case. The problematic LCD displays could be Dell, Samsung, LG, HP, EIZO, Lenovo.
The ...(continue read)
tags: display, font, smoothing
A Quick way to resize images in batches could be find that Preview has that functionality. Open the whole batch of images in Preview; the images will all open in the same window with thumbnails visible in the sidebar.
Select all of the thumbnails in the sidebar (with Command-A, or click the first and then click the last while holding Shift). Next, from the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size. You’ll be presented with a dialog containing options to resize to all the common 4:3 and 16:9 screen sizes, as well as the option to define custom dimensions. Images are scaled proportionately and resampled ...(continue read)
tags: pictures, preview
The new method of scanning with Image Capture is wonderful! Apple has organized the process with exceptional clarity. Also, it allows the user to specify several different files to be created from one scan.
Having the HP hardware and Apple software combined is the best of all worlds.
But the Officejet 6500 scanner isn’t working in Snow Leopard either. Here quick guide howto fix it:
Open System Preferences -> Print & Fax and delete your printer from the Printers list.
Browse to /Library/printers. Delete the “hp” folder.
Browse to /Library/Image Capture/Devices. Delete “HPScanner“.
Browse ...(continue read)
tags: hp, printer, scanner
Use the Tab key in user-created keyboard shortcuts in Snow Leopard. In OS X 10.5, pressing the Tab key while creating keyboard shortcuts (in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel) didn’t work; the system would just beep and not accept the Tab key.
In Snow Leopard you can now use the Tab key in any combination with the Shift, Control, Command, and Option keys. For example, you could change the Exposé All Windows activation keystroke to Option-Tab, which might make sense if you’re used to using Command-Tab to switch applications and want to have a similarly-assigned ...(continue read)
tags: expose, short keys, shortcuts, Snow Leopard, system preferences
In Mac OS X 10.5, the AirPort icon in the menu bar had a trick up its sleeve—hold down Option when clicking the icon, and you’d see more information about the various available AirPort networks -
The hardware (MAC) address of the wireless station, which channel is in use, the signal strength (RSSI), and finally an indication of the data transmission rate.
In Snow Leopard, this feature has been expanded, you can also see what mode your connected network is using (802.11n, for instance), security (WPA2 Personal), MCS Index, which appears to be related to the 802.11n standard.
tags: airport, network
One of the oddities of my computer use style is that I don’t like to have my system go into screensaver or lock automatically very quickly. When I leave the keyboard, I like to be able to activate the screensaver/lock manually. Since I’m also not a fan of active screen corners, I want to be able to do so by keystroke.
Annoyingly, OS X doesn’t let me bind a key to activate the screensaver. There used to be a couple utilities that enabled this, but they haven’t been updated since 10.3.
The screensaver engine itself is an application, but we still need a convenient wayto activate it. Enter ...(continue read)
tags: 10.5, 10.6, quicksilver, screensaver, security
In 10.6 that when use Exposé in Application Windows mode, it shows all windows, not just the ones in the current Space. I always end up clicking on the wrong window and being whisked away to a another Space.
To stop that from happening, open Terminal and run these two commands:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-show-windows-in-other-spaces -bool FALSE
killall Dock
From now on, Exposés Application Windows mode will only show windows in the current Space.
To reverse this hint, use
defaults delete com.apple.dock wvous-show-windows-in-other-spaces
killall Dock
Source: mymacosx
tags: expose, space
You can reveal the location of a recently-used item by holding down the Command key while looking at the Apple menu’s Recent Items menu. With the Command key held down, the wording of the menu items (for Applications and Documents) changes from some item to Show “some item” in Finder.
source: osxdaily
tags: 10.6, Snow Leopard
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