Telling Safari NOT to re-open all the windows from my last session
Every restart your Mac and have it boot up only to open all the last Safari windows you had just…
How can I get my Mac OS X version from the command line?
Under almost all circumstances, you can just go to “About this Mac” or use the system profiler. However, very rarely…
Installing Rails & MySQL On Mac OS X
First, isntall MySQL package installer from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads DON’T DOWNLOAD THE 64-BIT VERSION!!! You must download the 32-bit version even if…
Show all hidden files in the Finder windows
Type this in terminal: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE KillAll Finder To hide the hidden files again: defaults write com.apple.Finder…
enable/disable File Access Control List
How does enable/disable File Access Control List on a volume affect whether or not you can “Use Standard POSIX behavior”…
What does “Automatically enable mirrored updates” do, if selected?
– make them all available to users who are using your server to Software Update
Can I use an Apple AirPort with a Windows-based laptop?
– if you don’t already have a wireless PCMCIA card for the laptop you can buy one for about $30…
MAC OS BOOT KEY LIST: Hold down these Boot Keys while the computer is starting up
Key What it does C boot from optical drive drive (CD or DVD) drive N boot from NetBoot image T…
Notes on Addresss Book
ADDRESS BOOKs DATA FILES ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ ABPerson.skIndex AddressBook.data AddressBook.data.beforesave AddressBook.data.previous Images ~/Library/Preferences com.apple.AddressBook.plist Address Book will exhibit funny behavior if…
Safari Bookmarks and History
~/Library/Safari/ Bookmarks.plist Downloads.plist Form Values History.plist Icons – copying over these items to the new ~/Library/Safari folder seems to work