My MacOS X

iSync makes it even easier to make and keep your dates. That’s because iSync  synchronizing software works with over thirty cell phone models, as well as multiple Macs, your iPod and your PDA devices.

iSync is used to synchronize contact and calendar data from Address Book and iCal with many non-Apple SyncML-enabled mobile phones via a Bluetooth or USB connection.

iSync located in /Applications/ folder

Note: Some devices being supported via manufacturer and third-party iSync Plugins.

Here list of links to iSync plugins for popular brands

BenQ Siemens

• BenQ Siemens plugins

Samsung

• Datapilot
• Mactomster
• Nova Media

Sony Ericsson

• SonyEricsson
• Feisar
• Mactomster
• Nova Media

Vertu

• Vertu software for Mac

Nokia

• Plug-in to your iSync from the table below

Want to make iSync sync automatically ?
There an easy way to get the iSync software to  auto sync every x minutes.
Follow an Apple script to automatically tell iSync to sync:

tell application "iSync"

    if not syncing then
        synchronize
        repeat while syncing
                delay 1
        end repeat
        quit
    end if

end tell

Set it to run at period intervals using Automator workflows.

You may never need this, but if you administer servers remotely via the built in Apple VNC, it is the best trick ever.

However, the VNC service occasionally crashes, and locks my session. It also refuses any more VNC logins. This is particularly frustrating when I am off site! Apple has analyzed this and has no explanation or fix.

Here solution howto fix it: If SSH access is enabled on the server, you can connect to the server via an SSH client  and run this command:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent

You must log in with admin rights, and must enter the admin password again to run the command. It can take a minute to run. After it finishes you’ll able to login again via VNC.

You can play with remotely once you kickstart ARD
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370?viewlocale=en_US

A Quick way to resize images in batches could be  find that Preview has that functionality. Open the whole batch of images in Preview; the images will all open in the same window with thumbnails visible in the sidebar.

Select all of the thumbnails in the sidebar (with Command-A, or click the first and then click the last while holding Shift). Next, from the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size. You’ll be presented with a dialog containing options to resize to all the common 4:3 and 16:9 screen sizes, as well as the option to define custom dimensions. Images are scaled proportionately and resampled by default.

Save the resized images, and you’re done!
Preview will prompt you to save any changes if you attempt to close the window.

You can also use sips on the command line:
sips -Z 1024 *.jpg
will resample to a max of 1024 px for the long edge.
Note that sips rewrites images in place, so you should do this on a copy if you care.

I could say -  I always write code that’s valid and “Apply Source Formatting” as Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 does it , but the truth is I’m a hack.
I get things to work with spit and chewing gum, and my code is a sloppy mess. Tidy Service to the rescue!

Tidy Service is a OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by  Dave Raggett. The version of HTML Tidy used in this build corresponds to the binary version released on February 11th, 2007.

HOW DO INSTALL IT?

1. Download Tidy Service
2. Copy TidyService.service file to /Users/<your home directory>/Library/Services/
   Note: You may need to create the directory “Services” if it does not already exist.
3. Logout and then login  again (or restart systyem).
   Note: Tidy Sevice will not appear in the Services menu until you logout, then login
4. Create settings for TidyService.
   create /Users/<your home directory>/TidyService.conf
   and insert following settings to TidyService.conf

   indent: yes
   indent-spaces: 4
   wrap: 72
   markup: yes
   output-xml: no
   input-xml: no
   show-warnings: no
   numeric-entities: no
   quote-marks: yes
   quote-nbsp: yes
   quote-ampersand: no
   break-before-br: no
   uppercase-tags: no
   uppercase-attributes: no
   doctype: omit
   show-body-only: yes
   output-html: yes
   tidy-mark: no
   

   A detailed listing of options can be found at http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html

5. Set a shortcut to easy access to Tidy Service. Open Leopard -> System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Select Services in left box and set find “Tidy Markup” in list.
   

HOW TO USE

Tidy Service can be used to clean up HTML markup in any application that supports services by selecting (Coda, SubEthaEdit, Tumult HyperEdit, or TextWrangler) the markup in question and choosing one of the Tidy menu items from the Services menu.

Currently, there are two processing options: Tidy Markup and Tidy to XHTML. Tidy to XHTML instructs the Tidy engine to  generate valid XHTML, while Tidy Markup does not.

One of my favorite add-ons for MacBook and MacBook Pro’s with the keyboard backlight is this awesome app from Lab Tick that allows you to manually control the keyboard backlighting via a menubar item. Yes, you can control the MacBook Backlit keyboard illumination via the function keys as well, but having the menubar item is very handy, try it out yourself!
It’s been updated and works perfectly in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Control the MacBook Backlit Keyboard Illumination

• Lab Tick – download now

Control backlight via MacBook / Pro keyboard function keys:

• F8 turns off backlighting completely
  F9 dims keyboard backlighting
  F10 brightens keyboard backlight

Source: osxdaily

If you are a web designer or do any work matching colors with photos, you are in luck. Mac OS X comes with a cool little program to help you get the digital value of any pixel on the screen. It’s called Digital Color Meter.

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