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Lions new Finder Tricks….

Now that I’m getting settled in the latest OSX, I thought I share with you a couple of finder gems that might not be obvious right from the get go: 1) You now have the ability to select multiple files in a folder and right click on them to choose “New Folder with X Selections”.…

July 26, 2011
Adding mcrypt support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….

I got a request to add mcrypt support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…

February 4, 2011
Optimizing Snow Leopard for SSD drives….

I just installed a new 128GB SSD drive in my older C2D 17″ macbook Pro and let me tell you….WOW….This thing is on fire. The system is extremely responsive and apps literally jump onto the screen. The machine now boots up to full desktop in roughly 17 seconds. Now that’s nice. I did do a…

January 16, 2011
Five minute Augmented Reality via Quartz Composer….

Great little video on how to setup AR marker recognition under QC. Even has a nice mellow background music :-).

January 16, 2011
Terminal Tip: Finding information about a mp3 audio file…

Here is a quick tip for you OSX command line fans. If you want to find metadata information about a mp3 file use the “afinfo” command. Very quick and scripting friendly. Here is a example: $ afinfo 08_\ Lily\ Allen\ -\ Fk\ You.mp3 File: 08_ Lily Allen – Fk You.mp3 File type ID: MPG3 Data…

October 19, 2010
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TSIA

September 20, 2010
Map any network drive to Mac OS X that auto mounts after system reboot

Here is a quick recipe for making a network drive auto mount on your OSX machine. This works with pretty much any protocol supported by Finders “Connect to Server” option. Here is how you do it: From the Finder, hit Command+K or select Connect to Server from the Go menu. You’ll see the following window,…

September 20, 2010
Reset iTunes 10 window control buttons

Not sure what’s happening lately in the Apple UI design department. Someone over there decided to reposition the window control buttons (you know x,-,+ aka. close,minimize,maximize) vertically in the latest itunes10 (see pics below). If you prefer the old (proper) way of having them ordered horizontally (see picture above), you can use the commands below:…

September 2, 2010
Restarting into Mac OS X using the command line, when running Windows…

Okay so this only works in Boot Camp 3.0+ which comes with Snow Leopard (10.6). If you ever find yourself in Windows and need to quickly — using command line — change your boot option to reboot into OSX (process known under OSX as blessing) you can use the following command:c:\progra~1\Bootca~1\bootcamp.exe -StartupDisk “Mac OS” Shutdown…

August 5, 2010
Forcing 64-bit mode when booting OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)…

You all probably know about the trick with holding down 6 and 4 keys on your keyboard to force OSX 10.6 to boot using the 64-bit kernel. What you might not know is that it’s temporary and the next time you reboot, you’re back to using the 32 bit kernel. Now I can’t guarantee that…

August 5, 2010

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