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

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 server

1. Close Mail
2. In terminal: rm ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/Cache.db
3. Open Mail, all images will be refreshed

Other way to fix mail cache

You could download OnyX to clear all apps cache and also tune up other aspects of the MacOSX.

Refreshing Apple Mail images is a post from: My MacOS X

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 at all! It just causes a laconic message box that says: “The application Finder can’t be opened (-10810)”. Unless you want to logout and login back (or restart).

Here solutions:

• Kill Finder and Dock processes.
  In terminal, run the following command to reset these applications:
  sudo killall Finder Dock
• Rerun Finder from terminal
  
  /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & disown
• Unmount disks
  
  If you only have one internal hard drive, use the following command to unmount all except for that drive
  
  
  sudo umount -Af

How To Fix the “The application Finder can’t be opened (-10810)” message box is a post from: My MacOS X

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.

1. Launch the Boot Camp Assistant by going to your Applications -> Utilities -> Boot Camp Assistant.



2. Click Continue on the initial Boot Camp Assistant Introduction window.



3. Select Create or remove a Windows partition and then click Continue




4. Click the Restore button to remove the Windows partition and restore the disk to a single-partition OS X volume.




5. You’ll be prompted to enter your password – do so and then click OK.




6. The Boot Camp Assistant will start partitioning…




7. and then you’ll be back to a single OS X volume.

Want to delete a Boot Camp partition? is a post from: My MacOS X

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Want to instant screensaver activation Key/Screen Lock Key ?

Delayed Screensaver Password is a post from: My MacOS X

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 following reasons:

• Uses libcurl a cross platform library
• curl sends more stuff to stdout and reads more from stdin
• curl supports ftp, ftps, http, https, scp sftp, tftp, telnet, dict, ldap and ldaps while wget
• supports only http, https and ftp
• curl has ssl support
• libcurl supports more http authentication methods
• Curl is bidirectional while wget offers http post support only
• Curl has more development activities.

In fact, curl offers substantially better download statistics during
interactive use. It also has th excellent libCURL, which programs in the
operating system leverage as a transport layer. This is simply not
possible using wget, and writing an HTTP 1.1 client is pointless when a
really good one is already available.

Anything you can do with wget you can do with curl (with a little effort),
but no amount of effort will result in a well-factored libWGET. You can
(and I have) implemented recursive retrieval by passing the output of curl
through a sed script to find tags and download the target with more
curl invocations.

A wget replacement for MAC OS X is a post from: My MacOS X

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 snippets.
• Creating new snippets only takes seconds.
• Search your snippets instantly with a few keystrokes.
• Never have to leave the keyboard.

Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $12.95 to buy

Snippet your code and notes is a post from: My MacOS X

Here 4 ways for relaunching Finder in Snow Leopard

Relaunching with Dock

This is probably the fastest way to relaunch Finder.

1. Hold down control-option and click on the Finder icon stuck onto Dock
2. Choose Relaunch option from appearing contextual menu
3. Finder should be relaunched by then

Relaunching with Terminal

As usual, Terminal lends us a great help in relaunching Finder.

1. Open Terminal
2. Execute command line

   killall Finder
   

3. Finder will be quitted and relaunched after a while

Relaunching with Force Quit Pane

We can use force quit pane to quit any running applications, including relaunching Finder (we can quit Finder).

1. Hit command-option-escape to open Force Quit Pane
2. Select Finder
3. Click on Relaunch button

Relaunching with Quicksilver

Besides using Quicksilver as applications launcher, we can also use it to relaunch applications. This relaunch feature is also applicable to Finder.

1. Download Quicksilver and launch it
2. On the application box type Finder and type Relaunch on action box
3. Hit return key to execute
4. Your Finder should be relaunched by now

Howto Relaunch Finder is a post from: My MacOS X

First Way “create a new admin account”

1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. 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
4. 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 ever forgotten your user account password in OS X, All you need is to remember your username (you do remember that, right?) and then reboot your computer.

1. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
2. sh /etc/rc
3. passwd yourusername
4. reboot

P.S. The only major downside to resetting your password this way is that you’ll lose all keychain passwords,

How do I reset my Mac OS X admin root password without an CD/DVD? is a post from: My MacOS X