Category Archives: mac

Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X – Super User

Something worth keeping an eye on as I’m sure there’s going to be some useful stuff from time to time.

Lessons Learned: One Month in the iPhone AppStore

Great post describing the process of getting their calculator on the Apple AppStore, and it’s first month there. Would love if they went into more detail about the paper work, but there’s some great information there. [via this Silicon Florist post.]

Why I want a 10″ iPhone

All the talk about whether Apple will or won’t produce a tablet PC (and/or a netbook) has rekindled my thinking about something I’ve actually wanted for quite some time. I’d love to have a device for two different, but similar, functionalities. The main one, by far, would be to use in the kitchen. Mostly for [...]

Speed up iPhoto ’09 by vacuuming its databases

Certainly worth a try as the vacuum command looks harmless.

OS X – Create a new folder in the current list-view directory

This has been bugging me for a while. Don’t know why you’d ever want it to do the default which is to create the new folder at the “base” level of the finder window. Until someone at Apple comes to their senses, here’s a way around it: With enclosing folder highlighted, type command-O. (The Finder [...]

10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

And here’s another one.

Cool Terminal Tricks

OK, I admit that I’m late to the game on this stuff, but here’s some tricks to remember in Terminal: keyboard text selection cursor movement

MacWorld: Tips for Avoiding a Mac Disaster

LinkThis is something to keep in mind and return to from time to time. Using this (specifically item <4>), I found many WebObjects things running that I certainly don’t need (at least not right now).

Description of Loading Oracle on Mac

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Free Up Drive Space on OS X

Suggestions of different ways to free up some hard drive space. May or may not come in handy …