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…

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.

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…

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…