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.
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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
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tags: Finder, relaunch
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
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
if you have your desktop wallpaper set to shuffle
between a number of images, and you don’t like the currently-selected picture, you can manually skip it:
Just type the following into Terminal killall Dock When the Dock restarts, it will change to another desktop picture.
If you find yourself doing this regularly, you could turn it into a simple Automator application
tell application "System Events"
set rotinterval to change interval of current desktop
set change interval of current desktop to 1
delay 1
set change interval of current desktop to rotinterval
end tell
You can ...(continue read)
tags: desktop, do, dock, wallpaper
After update up 10.6.2 I’ve noticed that my menu bar had all of it’s icons missing, including clock, istat, etc. Re-downloaded the update from Apple is not helps…
The problem in spotlight fix – If you are disabled the spotlight icon by modifying the Search.bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices
Here instructions how to fix it:
Replace Search.bundle from your backup in /System/Library/CoreServices ( click here to download a default version ).
Note: Maybe you have to delete a current file and then copy a new one.
Launch Activity Monitor and kill the SystemUIServer.
MacOS ...(continue read)
tags: 10.6, bug
Advanced OS X users know that Darwin comes with ipfw, which can be used to set up a custom firewall. IPFW’s flexibility, very targeted bandwidth limiting rules can be made in only a few lines. This same service however can be used to also limit bandwidth on specific ports.
The following ipfw rules will limit connections from Mac to ISP’s mail server to 100K per second only for outgoing smtp connections:
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100Kbit/s
sudo ipfw pipe 1 tcp from me to smtp.west.cox.net 25
Obviously, the rate can be tailored to anything you like, and the rule is specific enough not to ...(continue read)
tags: net
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