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Portable Studio in a box
Hot on the heels of AJA video’s NAB announcement of their IO HD box, MOTU has just announced their version of Portable Studio in a box, the MOTU V3HD. According to MOTU’s website “With one simple plug-and-play FireWire connection, the V3HD turns your Mac or PC desktop or laptop computer into a powerful HD/SD video…
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How to turn Spotlight OFF (and ON Again)….
UPDATE: Please see this article if you use Leopard (OSX 10.5+). The procedure below, although not damaging, works for 10.4 and below (Tiger). Thanks to Anonymous for pointing this out. Got a new Macbook thru work today and after Firewire targeting my profile over from my personal MBP, I started looking around the blog for…
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iPhone keyboard done better on Nokia N800….
Well they said it can’t be done. They said the secret of the apple sauce was only known to Steve. Looks like Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri has it figured out. 1340 lines of code and you’ve got the Apple’s Ubercool keyboard on the N800…..gotta love open platforms.
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Immediate delete for USB drives under OSX
Okay so how many times have you “deleted” a file on a USB drive under OSX only to find out later that the storage is still tied up in .Trashes directory. Well there is a easy way to fix this. Open terminal, cd to your USB drives root directory (mounted under /Volumes) and issue the…
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Find your Mac’s Serial number from CLI
Okay couple of quick ways to find the serial number of your mac.ioreg -l|grep IOPlatformSerialNumber|awk ‘{print $4}’|cut -d \” -f 2orioreg -l | awk ‘/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ {print $4}’ | sed ‘s/\”//g’Very useful when you’re logged into your Mac remotely and call apple helpdesk with a issue.
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Install OSX on a external disk without rebooting
Normally if you wanted to install OSX on a external drive, you’d probably reboot, insert the DVD and boot off the DVD. Well turns out you really don’t have to do that. You can actually attach a external drive to your machine while it’s running OSX, insert the DVD and install OSX to the attached…
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Couple of quick shell tips
Okay these are bash goodies, so they’ll work in any environment. If you’re in a situation where you’re switching between two different directory paths over and over again, here is a quick tipcd – Another little annoyance that I’ve gotten around is when you want to edit a system file and you type in the…
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Quickway to check your DNS settings under OSX
This is another CLI command, so get your terminal ready. This gives you a quickway to check the DNS settings on OSX. Now one way is to just cat /etc/resolv.conf , but what if you wanted to see what the system is actually using (not just what it was configured for). Well scutil comes to…
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OSX Directory Services from Command-line
New day, new command. dscl is the command in question. It gives you access to Mac OSX’s Directory Services Command Line interface. Very powerful stuff for those of us who like the command line and hate to do the same task a million times. A useful example is the ability to grant Administrator privileges to…
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Gravity Music….
This is gotta be one of the coolest generative music projects. Make sure your browser has a working version of Java. Have fun and please don’t complain when you find out you’ve waisted your entire day at this site…….