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Want to remove the applescript logo in the menubar with the clock and airport ?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. tags: menubar applescript, Snow Leopard

Are you looking for Apple Mail Library Mail Cache? Developing HTML email newsletter and problem with images cache? If you are getting an html email with images and that image file is changed on the server mail is not updating the image. It is obviously looking to a cache file then going back to the server to pull the new image.Easy way to force Apple Mail to reload all images from serverClose Mail In terminal: rm ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/Cache.db Open Mail, all images will be refreshedOther way to fix mail cache You could download OnyX to clear all apps cache and also tune up other ...(continue read)
tags: cache, developing, email

Snow Leopard has brought an annoying bug (still available in 10.6.6). A number of people are having a problem where the Finder will hang or crash, followed by a Finder error message saying “The application Finder.app can’t be opened. -10810″. The general agreement among affected users seems to be that this is spurred mainly when accessing external drives, but there could be a few other related reasons.Sometimes, when dealing with external hard drives or USB sticks, Finder crashes and does not automatically reopen. Trying to click on the Finder icon in the Dock does not help ...(continue read)
tags: Finder

If you’ve installed Windows via Boot Camp, and now want to delete it and restore the space to your main Mac hard drive, this brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to do just that. It’s actually quite easy to remove the Windows drive and reclaim all the hard drive space, the only “problem” is that Apple doesn’t make it an obvious process. NOTE: First, backup everything you want to keep from the Windows partition, because this process will erase everything related to Windows.Launch the Boot Camp Assistant by going to your Applications -> Utilities -> Boot Camp Assistant. ...(continue read)
tags: bootcamp, windows

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

One of the easiest way to secure your computer from the prying co-worker’s eyes is to set a screensaver password. But if often leave your computer in a short moment only to repeatedly type the password, this simple security system could be annoying. Snow Leopard let the users decide how long should the screensaver (or sleep mode) run before you need to type in the password. So if a user goes for a glass of water in the dispenser, he/she can continue right away.Want to instant screensaver activation Key/Screen Lock Key ? tags: password, screensaver, security

So when you need to download a large file and don’t want to have to worry about whether or not Safari or Firefox continues to run with out interruption, use Terminal and curl (wget replacement). Note: wget is not exists in Leopard,  you should set up an alias for wget to curl -O which does exactly the same thing: echo 'alias wget="curl -O"' >> ~/.bash_profile Your are done. Now just easy to use in Terminal. Here example to download iTunes. wget http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes9/061-7203.20100330.XswP8/iTunes9.1.dmg Curl is better than wget for the ...(continue read)
tags: network, Terminal

So you’re a designer or a developer and you daily need to deal with code and text snippets: that’s very likely to happen. From CSS to HTML, from Javascript to Ruby, you just can’t remember every piece of code everyday: you need a good solution to store and easily retrieve them. Snippet is a way for developers to quickly save and search their snippets of code to use later on future projects. Store all sorts of code and notes, and sync across multiple macs with MobileMe. Features:Easily create Snippets from selected text anywhere. Sync Snippet with MobileMe so you always have your ...(continue read)
tags: programming, snippet, text

If Finder is misbehaving you probably think you need to restart your computer. Usually you can fix the problem by relaunching Finder itself. This saves a lot of time since the relaunch only takes seconds to do. Here 4 ways for relaunching Finder in Snow Leopard Relaunching with Dock This is probably the fastest way to relaunch Finder.Hold down control-option and click on the Finder icon stuck onto Dock Choose Relaunch option from appearing contextual menu Finder should be relaunched by then Relaunching with Terminal As usual, Terminal lends us a great help in relaunching Finder.Open Terminal ...(continue read)
tags: Finder, relaunch

To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you have two waysFirst 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 nowAfter 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 encryptedFirst, 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

The fastest way to browse your directories in OS X is clearly the column view that you access by pressing “Command + 3“. You probably know that if you double-click the icon at the bottom of a column, it will “right size” that column, so you can see the entire file name. If you “Option-double-click” that icon, then all columns will be “right sized” to the maximum width necessary to display the longest item in the column. If you want to change all of them press “Alt” while resizing. This will not only resize all columns at once, but also ...(continue read)
tags: Finder, short keys

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