Solution:

Hold the Apple key and drag it out of the menu bar.
This works for other Apple menu bar icons like battery, Airport, Input menu, Sound, Displays, etc.

It’s also allows you to drag them off the menubar and rearrange with the cmd key, the other does not. For ones that don’t, there’s almost always an option to get rid of it by looking in the preferences of the app in question.

howto get rid of applescript in menubar? is a post from: My MacOS X

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.4, the fourth maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update. The update offers a number of fixes implemented since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.3 in late March.

The 10.6.4 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

• – resolve an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
• – resolve an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
• – address issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
• – improve reliability of VPN connections
• – resolve a playback issue in DVD Player when using Good Quality deinterlacing
• – resolve an issue editing photos with iPhoto or Aperture in full screen view
• – improve compatibility with some braille displays

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4150.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Just yesterday, Apple seeded Build 10F569 of Mac OS X 10.6.4 to developers.

- Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update (607.21 MB)
- Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update (Combo) (887.37 MB)
- Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (615.60 MB)
- Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (Combo) (1.05 GB)

Apple also released a pair of Mac OS X 10.6.4 updates specifically for the company’s new Mac mini released earlier today.

- Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update Mac mini (Mid 2010) (403.38 MB)
- Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update Mac mini (Mid 2010) (411.72 MB)

Finally, Apple released Security Update 2010-004 for users on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

- Security Update 2010-004 (Leopard-Client) (222 MB)
- Security Update 2010-004 (Leopard-Server) (380.29 MB)

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.4 and Security Update 2010-004 is a post from: My MacOS X

• CoreAudio CVE-ID: CVE-2010-0036Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2

  Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted mp4 audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

  Description: A buffer overflow exists in the handling of mp4 audio files. Playing a maliciously crafted mp4 audio file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking. Credit to Tobias Klein of trapkit.de for reporting this issue.

• CUPS CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3553Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2

  Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected application termination of cupsd

  Description: A use-after-free issue exists in cupsd. By issuing a maliciously crafted get-printer-jobs request, an attacker may cause a remote denial of service. This is mitigated through the automatic restart of cupsd after its termination. This issue is addressed through improved connection use tracking.

• Flash Player plug-in CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3794, CVE-2009-3796, CVE-2009-3797, CVE-2009-3798, CVE-2009-3799, CVE-2009-3800, CVE-2009-3951Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2

  Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player plug-in

  Description: Multiple issues exist in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution when viewing a maliciously crafted web site. The issues are addressed by updating the Flash Player plug-in to version 10.0.42. Further information is available via the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-19.html Credit to an anonymous researcher and Damian Put working with TippingPoints Zero Day Initiative, Bing Liu of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Global Security Research Team, Will Dormann of CERT, Manuel Caballero and Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR).

• ImageIO CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2285Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8

  Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted TIFF image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

  Description: A buffer underflow exists in ImageIO’s handling of TIFF images. Viewing a maliciously crafted TIFF image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, this issue is addressed in Mac OS X v10.6.2.

• Image RAW CVE-ID: CVE-2010-0037Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2

  Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted DNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

  Description: A buffer overflow exists in Image RAW’s handling of DNG images. Viewing a maliciously crafted DNG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking. Credit to Jason Carr of Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services for reporting this issue.

• OpenSSL CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3555Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, Mac OS X Server v10.6.2

  Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may capture data or change the operations performed in sessions protected by SSL

  Description: A man-in-the-middle vulnerability exists in the SSL and TLS protocols. Further information is available at http://www.phonefactor.com/sslgap A change to the renegotiation protocol is underway within the IETF. This update disables renegotiation in OpenSSL as a preventive security measure. The issue does not affect services using Secure Transport as it does not support renegotiation. Credit to Steve Dispensa and Marsh Ray of PhoneFactor, Inc. for reporting this issue.

Apple security updates 2010-001 is a post from: My MacOS X

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 shortcut for Exposé.

• Open the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard System Preferences panel
• Select the Exposé & Spaces entry in the left-hand column
• Click on the All Windows entry below Exposé in the right-hand column.
• Double-click on the right-hand side of that entry
• And just press Option-Tab

and you’re done.

You can now use the Tab key in your user-defined shortcuts, which opens up a number of additional keyboard combinations.

Use Tab key in Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts is a post from: My MacOS X

source: osxdaily

Reveal location of recent items in the Finder is a post from: My MacOS X

In Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)

To clear DNS cache in Leopard, just type this in your Terminal and hit enter.

dscacheutil -flushcache

To Clear DNS cache in Mac OS X Tiger

Use the following command:

lookupd -flushcache

What is DNS?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a naming system for computers, and anything else on the Internet. When you type a website’s name into your browser address bar, the DNS gives you the IP co-ordinates to find the server.

How to Clear DNS Cache in Mac OS X Leopard is a post from: My MacOS X

Here is how to do it:
Step 1: From the ‘Finder’ menu, choose ‘GO->Utilities’ or click Shift + Command + U

Step 2: Next, open the app, ‘Digital Color Meter’

Now, you can change the aperture size to smaller (left) or larger (right). Also, you can use the drop down menu to choose what format you want it represented in. For HTML coding, use RGB As Hex Value, 8-bit.
To copy the displayed color value to the clipboard, hover the mouse cursor over the color you want to measure and press Shift+Command+C. Your needs may be different, and it gives you several options to choose from.

digitalcolor meter keyboard shortcuts:

• Lock Position (Command+L)
• Lock X (Command+X)
• Lock Y (Command+Y)
• Copy Image (Command+C)
• Save as TIFF (Command+S)
• Hold Color (Shift+Command+H)
• Copy Color As Text (Shift+Command+C)
• Copy Color As Image (Option+Command+C)

More about DigitalColor Meter on Wikipedia

Digital Color Meter for Web Designer is a post from: My MacOS X

1. Open up a PDF or IMAGE on your Mac with Preview.
2. Click on the Annotate button in Preview, located next to the Select button on the top.
3. Now, you should notice a toolbar appear on the bottom on Preview.
4. Use this Annotation toolbar to highlight text, add circles or squares around important text, add hyperlinks, add text, or add colorful arrows.
5. Once you’re done making any changes to the file, make sure to save it.

Here shortcuts:

Annotate images and PDF in Preview is a post from: My MacOS X

Address Book, AppleScript, AppleScriptObjC, ATS, ColorSync, Component Manager, Core Animation, Core Audio, Core Chinese Engine, Core Data, Core Graphics, Core Text, File Manager, Garbage Collection, Graphic drivers, Help Viewer, ImageKit, IOHIDFamily, Networking, NS Image, OpenCL, OpenGL, OSA, QT Kit, Speech Recognition, Sync Services, and Xtype.

The seed notes reportedly include a caution that there is a known issue with optical drives: that they may not be recognized and the eject key may not eject the media, and that DVD Player may hang. As a result, not all developers may choose to install this build.
Note: Mac OS X 10.6.1 was released September 10.

Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C514f to Developers is a post from: My MacOS X

Click the top “split” button or press Command+D shortcut and now you’ve got your window split into two usable panes like so:
To collapse the window press Command+Shift+D

ALso, you can do multiple splits. Aside from general speed increase I think split pane in Terminal is my new favorite feature.

See the Terminal Splits Windows Movie:

Terminal Split Windows in Snow Leopard 10.6 is a post from: My MacOS X