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

Undelete the trash is a post from: My MacOS X

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

• 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 to open com.apple.finder.plist, located in your user’s /Library/Preferences folder, and look for the FXRecentFolders item.

One of the entries should contain the name of your home folder (your login name) together with an entry called file-data. If it doesn’t, you need to close the plist and visit your home folder in Finder. This will make it a ‘recent folder,’ and then you can check the file again.

The value of _CFURLAliasData inside file-data is the string we need, including the enclosing < and >. Copy this to the clipboard.

Now, disable Time Machine from within System Preferences, make a back up of com.apple.TimeMachine.plist, located in /Library/Preferences, and then open the original file in Property List Editor. Select IncludedVolumes and click Add Child. Select type Data and paste the string you copied earlier.

(If IncludedVolumes doesn’t exist, select Root and click Add Child. Name the new entry IncludedVolumes and make it type Array. Then do the above.)

Check that the path to your home folder isn’t listed in any of the items ExcludeByPath, ExcludedVolumes, or SkipPaths. Save and quit the editor.

Select Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu bar extra to start an initial backup.
Note: You may already have a backup of your image file (located in the hidden folder /Users/.username), in which case you will have duplicates. You might want to exclude this from your backup.

When browsing your backup, your unencrypted home folder will be on the Computer level, alongside your startup disk. Not where it normally is — under /Users — since it is treated like a regular disk.

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How to backup File Vault in Time Machine while logged in is a post from: My MacOS X

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 makes the new width the default setting for all windows.

In 10.5, Apple apparently felt these shortcuts were too hidden; there’s now a contextual menu hiding under the column resize widget, too. Just “control-click” on it, and three choices will appear:

Hopefully someday Apple will figure out how to get the “right size all columns” feature into the Finder, where it would be truly useful. Until then, though, at least it works in the Open and Save dialogs

Resize to fit column-view all columns in Finder 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