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Mac — Finer Things in Tech
You can hold ⌥ (Option) to make windows resize symmetrically, from the center. It even works when resizing from any corner in Lion. Update: You can also hold ⇧ (Shift) to resize a window proportionally.

As far as I can tell this is brand new in Lion, the first version of OS X that allowed resizing windows from any side.
mac  macosx  osx  tips  lion  osxlion 
19 days ago by Aetles
PhoneView for iPhone and iPad - Save SMS, iMessages, Voicemail, Call History, Music, Photos, Notes - Ecamm Network
Full iPhone and iPad Access

Save iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app data, voicemail, text messages, iMessages, call log, notes, contacts, music and photos to your Mac.
backup  iphone  mac  osx  ipad 
5 weeks ago by Aetles
Broken transcript search - Adium Documentation
In cases where searching transcripts works unreliably, re-indexing often helps. To re-index, select "File → Import → Reindex Adium Logs."
adium  osx  mac 
8 weeks ago by Aetles
Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
To enable hidden files/folders in finder windows:

Open Finder
Open the Utilities folder
Open a terminal window
Copy and paste the following line in:
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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Press return
Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon
Click on Relaunch
You should find you will now be able to see any hidden files or folders. One you are done, perform the steps above however, replace the terminal command in step 4 with:
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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
files  hidden  lion  mac  osx 
9 weeks ago by Aetles
Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions
This topic contains answers to many common, general questions about Time Machine.
It does not, however, cover diagnosis and correction of specific problems or errors.  See Time Machine - Troubleshooting  for such help.
For questions and problems specific to Time Capsules, see Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule.  General problems with Time Capsules are covered in Apple’s  Time Capsule  forum.
apple  backup  mac  timemachine 
9 weeks ago by Aetles
The TED2012 Thunderbolt Report - Duncan Davidson
Last week, I mentioned that the TED media team had made a pretty big change in the media room. Instead of dozens of MacPros and piles of SATA drives, the room is full of iMacs and Thunderbolt drives. Lots of Thunderbolt drives. Now that we’ve been through an intense week of work dealing with terabytes of data in a high pressure situation, the question is: how’d it work out?

The answer: amazingly well. It was a super positive experience.
thunderbolt  mac  ted 
11 weeks ago by Aetles
DayOne and Time Travel « Macdrifter
So how does all this relate to a trivial review of an application like DayOne? It’s the first time I’m keeping a journal for someone other than myself. Every other thing I write is for me, but what is going into DayOne is for my Daughter. With DayOne’s Reminder integration, I get an alert every day to add another entry. A subtle encouragement to do the right thing.

DayOne is my time machine. I use it to write letters to my future daughter.[5] When she will be by age, my body will be almost 90. There’s little I can predict now about that future. I need to tell her about our family and what I was thinking while she was growing up. I try tell her about the moments that she will never remember. I hope I can explain who she is now. In these entries, I will travel to the future and explain who her dad was when she was small. I wish my Dad could have.
dayone  mac  ios  osx  software 
12 weeks ago by Aetles
Fluid support in Lion - AgileBits Forums
One thing I don't see mentioned above is that by default Fluid shares its cookies with Safari, so if you use the 1Password Safari extension to log into the site(s) for which you have created an SSB, you will be logged in in the SSB. It's not the same, I know, but if you didn't already know perhaps it will ease the pain.
1password  fluid  tips  osx  mac  safari 
february 2012 by Aetles
Ten exciting system changes in Mountain Lion | Macworld
Multi-disk backup
After having a terrible hard drive disaster back in college, I’ve been horribly paranoid about my backup arrangements. Mountain Lion will humor my paranoia by letting me use Time Machine to back up to several disks at once, automatically. And since OS X supports backup to networked drives, I can keep my files current in several physical places as well, without any extra work.
osx  mac  mountainlion  timemachine 
february 2012 by Aetles
Manton Reece: Sandboxing and Clipstart
I wrote a draft of this post a few weeks ago, before Mac OS X Mountain Lion was announced. It was pretty critical of Apple's aggressive approach to sandboxing, and I've kept most of that, but the new Gatekeeper feature for Mountain Lion at least gives me a way out. I don't think Apple would have created Gatekeeper if they planned to abandon apps sold outside of the Mac App Store.

For the next release of my app Clipstart, I will be removing it from the Mac App Store and only selling directly from my web site. With Gatekeeper I hope to have some confidence that my customers will still be able to run the app on future versions of the OS.
sandboxing  macappstore  mac  osx 
february 2012 by Aetles
Cocoon - The MSN plugin for iChat
Finally the so awaited native solution to use Windows Live Messenger on Mac through iChat! Easy to install and set up, Cocoon adds MSN, Hotmail and Live Mail to your account list on the standard Mac instant messenger, making the user experience as it should have always been: simple, trustful and integrated with your system.
mac  msn  ichat  osx  plugin 
february 2012 by Aetles
The Overwhelming Onslaught Of iMessages | PandoDaily
iOS knows when I’ve read an iMessage, and when I’ve unlocked the screen. OS X knows if I’ve got Messages running, and if I’ve moved the mouse cursor recently (and thus likely haven’t walked away from my laptop). When it’s clear that I’m at one terminal, the others shouldn’t be buzzing away. They should, of course, continue syncing the messages — but if I’ve just responded to something on OS X, my iPhone and iPad ought to stop screaming. Once it becomes even the slightest bit unclear where I am (if, say, my portables don’t send any read receipts back to the server and I’ve suddenly stopped responding on OS X), sure — let’em sing.

Too hacky? Fine. Give me a button that lets me say “I’m on this device. Silence iMessage everywhere else” that automatically disables itself once I’ve sent an iMessage from another device.
imessage  ios  osx  mac  apple 
february 2012 by Aetles
Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store – SourceTree by Atlassian
On March 1st, Apple will change the rules of the Mac App Store to require all applications to run inside of a ‘sandbox’. Unfortunately, this will disallow important SourceTree functionality that was previously acceptable under store rules. Complying with the sandboxing rules would force us to change SourceTree in ways that would remove features, damage the usability of the app, and hurt our users; therefore, we will no longer submit SourceTree updates to the Mac App Store after March 1st, 2012. New updates will be available, for free, directly from sourcetreeapp.com (and via the in-app update). We will continue to monitor the situation in case Apple improve their sandboxing implementation or revise their rules. Note that we will still be signing SourceTree with our Apple developer certificate so SourceTree should work fine with the default settings of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when it’s released.

For the full story of what forced us to take this disappointing decision, keep reading.
sandboxing  macappstore  mac  osx 
february 2012 by Aetles
Syncing Fonts Between Macs with Dropbox & Fontcase — Ramy Majouji
Font management is the nightmare of a lot of designers, and for good reasons. There are many different types of font formats for different uses, and it’s really difficult to keep up with updated versions of our fonts. PostScript Type 1, TrueType, OpenType PS, Font SuitCase, it never ends.

Although there are fantastic syncing services out there for all types of user data (contacts, email, calendar events, keychains, etc.), there doesn’t seem to be a user-friendly and easy solution to sync fonts between computers. Here is the solution I figured out that worked best for me so far.

Tools of the Trade:

More than one Mac;
A Dropbox account;
A Fontcase license;
A bunch of fonts;
An Internet connection (duh!);
Some time to spare.
For this article, I will assume that you downloaded and installed Fontcase and Dropbox on all the computers you wanna sync your fonts accross.
fonts  osx  mac  dropbox 
february 2012 by Aetles
A Review of the Doxie Go — Shawn Blanc
The biggest draw of the Doxie Go is that it’s cordless, or rather, that it’s battery powered. Cordless does not mean wireless. You do need a micro-USB cable to charge it, and the USB cable is the default way of getting your scans off the Go and onto your computer.

The Doxie Go can scan about 100 pages before the battery needs recharging. And the internal storage will hold at least 6 times that amount.

The idea behind the Go is exactly what the name hints at. The Go is a portable scanner that you can take with you. And while I don’t have a need for a portable scanner — my other scanner is an iPhone — I do like the idea of an attractive, small-yet-powerful, cordless scanner as part of my office setup.

The Go is small and attractive enough to warrant being kept on a desk top, but it is small enough to be kept in a drawer or on a shelf. And since it needs no wires to be able to function, you really can keep it anywhere you like.
scanner  mac  osx  paperless 
january 2012 by Aetles
20 Really Cool Alfred Extensions to Download | Mac.AppStorm
One of the first few apps I downloaded was the popular Alfred launcher. Being able to launch apps, open files, shutdown and restart my laptop with just a few taps on the keyboard intrigued me, so I decided to give it a shot. And hey, who can resist that adorable black bowler hat?
Months after, Alfred is now one of my favorite Mac apps and the most commonly used in a day. Moreover, there is this nifty upgrade called the Alfred Powerpack that contains features that enable me to do so much more with Alfred—features that will surely boost time efficiency and productivity better than ever before.
The Powerpack is definitely an upgrade many Alfred power users enjoy. In my case, my favorite Powerpack feature is the ability to extend Alfred, and it is in this post that I’ll explain briefly what extensions do as well as share a list of 20 really cool Alfred extensions you should download and try.
alfred  mac  macosx  productivity  osx 
january 2012 by Aetles
furbo.org · Sandboxing
Speaking of Radar, we encountered a fairly nasty problem after launching xScope. Many of our customers are designers and developers who love SSDs. It’s common to use a symlink in your Home folder to put big datasets like Pictures, Music and Movies on a separate hard drive. When you do this, folder access in the application sandbox container breaks. A small number of users who use symlinks are also getting crashes after launching the app that was downloaded from the Mac App Store:

xpchelper reply message validation: sandbox creation failed: 1002
Container object initialization failed: The file couldn’t be opened.
apple  development  mac  osx  sandboxing 
january 2012 by Aetles
CodeKit — THE Mac App For Web Developers
CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript & Haml files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It supports Compass. It even optimizes jpeg & png images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that's just the first paragraph.
css  javascript  less  sass  mac  osx  compass 
january 2012 by Aetles
BBEdit Markers « Macdrifter
There are a couple of meanings to Markers in BBEdit. This post is about bookmark markers. BBEdit provides a mechanism for creating custom bookmarks from search expressions. For example, the following grep expression matches all Markdown end references.


The “Mark with” expression simply says, mark with whatever is inside the first (i.e. 01) parentheses. When the Find and Mark is run, the Bookmark list is populated with all of the URL’s in my end references. Note that I have selected the “Clear Existing Markers” option. Unchecking that allows me to append bookmarks to the list.
bbedit  texteditor  mac  osx 
january 2012 by Aetles
Logging with Day One and Alfred
Yesterday, Brett Terpstra posted a fantastic little script to leverage Day One’s built-in CLI (command line interface, more information available here) to create new journal entries from the Terminal or an app launcher. Brett has posted instructions on how to use Launchbar with the script, or skip the app launcher part altogether and go with the Mac’s Terminal instead:

Day One already has a quick entry palette in the menubar. It also has a command line interface (/usr/local/bin/dayone)1 which provides some geeky options (try dayone in Terminal) and the flexibility needed to replace my current logging system. You can create entries quickly with either method, but I wanted just a little bit more out of it. I built a quick script which allows a basic syntax for starring entries and defining dates (using natural language) inline in the entry itself. It can be used from the command line, from LaunchBar (or similar) and can be incorporated into just about any scriptable workflow.
I wanted to make the script work with Alfred, my app launcher and navigation tool of choice, and it turns out the effort to modify Brett’s script is equal to zero. I simply replaced “on handle_string(message)” with “on alfred_script(q)” and ”end handle_string” with ”end alfred_script” to make it work in Alfred. Obviously, you’ll need to fill in the path to your script after you’ve followed Brett’s instructions.
alfred  mac  script  dayone 
january 2012 by Aetles
10.7: Disable internal laptop display when external display is attached - Mac OS X Hints
Before Lion it was possible to run an external display off a laptop and have the internal display disabled, even if you opened the lid. This can be useful for a myriad of reason including energy saving and better wifi reception. With Lion the internal display will always turn on when the lid is opened, even if there is already an external display connected.

A solution was posted on the Apple support forums by user chenga.8.

To go back to pre-Lion behaviour enter the following command in Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

To undo this change type type the following command or zap the PRAM (press Cmd+Opt+p+r at power up):

sudo nvram -d boot-args
apple  lion  mac  osx 
january 2012 by Aetles
Introducing Bronson Watermarker | A ton of useful information about screenwriting from screenwriter John August
I’m happy to announce our first-ever Mac app: Bronson Watermarker.

You can find it in the Mac App Store today.

Bronson does exactly one thing: watermark PDFs. There are other apps that let you do that (including Adobe Acrobat), but none of them are particularly good. They make simple jobs complicated, and they cost a lot more.

Bronson Watermarker also has two features that set it apart:

Give it a list of names, and Bronson will create individualized PDFs, ready to print or send.
Choose “Deep Burn” and Bronson will embed the watermark so thoroughly it’s never going away.
Watermarks are common in Hollywood, where studios and producers want to make sure screenplays don’t get passed along beyond their intended readers. Bronson Watermarker will save assistants a lot of time and hassle.

But Bronson is good for all sorts of uses beyond screenplays, so we’re aiming for a much wider user base — basically, anyone who needs to send out PDFs to people they don’t entirely trust.
mac  osx  macappstore  pdf  watermarking 
january 2012 by Aetles
osx - How to use Mac OS X Keychain with SSH keys? - Super User
As of the Leopard release of OS X, ssh-agent is more tightly integrated with Keychain. It is possible to store the passphrases of all of your SSH keys securely in Keychain, from which ssh-agent will read them on startup. The bottom line is that it is simple to secure your keys with passphrases, but never have to type the passphrase to use them! Here is how:

Add the pass phrase to each ssh key to keychain:

ssh-add -K [path/to/private SSH key]
Whenever you reboot your Mac, all the SSH keys in your keychain will be automatically loaded. You should be able to see the keys in the Keychain Access app, as well as from the command line via:

ssh-add -l
ssh  mac  osx 
december 2011 by Aetles
Cain Manor | SSH Public and Private Key setup on OS-X
I didn’t find one clear and con­cise place explain­ing how to setup pri­vate keys on OS-X. This is my attempt to rem­edy that.

First, you need to gen­er­ate the Pri­vate (id_dsa or id_rsa) and Pub­lic (id_dsa.pub or id_rsa.pub) Key pair. Prop­erly secured machines don’t accept RSA encryp­tion (rsa1) which was used by SSH v1 pro­to­col, but they do accept RSA v2 and DSA, with DSA being arguably more secure. For the –t option use either rsa or dsa, with dsa being pref­fered. The rest of this arti­cle assumes you’re using dsa. You are able to choose a passphrase, so pick some­thing easy to remem­ber and suf­fi­ciently complex.
ssh  mac  osx 
december 2011 by Aetles
David Ferguson
Grazing Push for Alfred will allow you to push a URL to any iDevice associated with your Grazing Push account. No more having to rely on bookmarklets and the site to push data to your iDevice. Just open up Alfred and send away.
alfred  mac  osx  grazing  ios 
december 2011 by Aetles
10.6: Change Mail's 'Copy Address' behavior - Mac OS X Hints
In versions of Mail prior to OS X 10.6, you could copy an email address from a message by Control-clicking on the address and choosing Copy Address from the contextual menu. As part of my job, I do this a lot -- users will email me, asking to look up their account name, for instance, so I need to paste their email address into a web form.

In 10.6, it seems someone at Apple decided that Copy Address should really mean Copy Name And Address And Add Angle Brackets Around The Address, because that's exactly what happens when you use Copy Address in Snow Leopard's Mail app. Instead of getting Sue_Sample@somesite.com on the clipboard, you get Sue Sample <Sue_Sample@somesite.com>.

Besides now having an incorrect name on the Copy Address contextual menu item (thought admittedly, the alternative is a bit lengthy), this behavior is incredibly irritating if you want only the email address on the clipboard. Thankfully, some engineer somewhere deep within Apple included a hidden preference to change this behavior -- and the fine folks at Mac Daddy World (the Ecamm Network blog site) dug deep and discovered this preference.
email  mac  osx  mail  tips 
december 2011 by Aetles
Secrets
A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X
apple  mac  osx  tips 
december 2011 by Aetles
FolderWatch - Brothers Roloff
Automatically keep a copy of your project up-to-date on an external drive or a file server.
backup  mac  sync 
december 2011 by Aetles
Alfred 1.0 Now Available With Enhanced Global Hotkeys
The public release of Alfred 1.0 is now available and brings with it a multitude of new features as well as improvements to existing ones. For most software developers reaching version 1.0 is a special milestone. I had the opportunity to speak with Andrew Pepperrell, the developer of Alfred, about his thoughts regarding this release and this is what he had to say:

Alfred 1.0 is a meaningful release; it’s more than just the new features. Version 1.0 marks Alfred’s maturity in my own mind, and users will no longer see him as unfinished. To be honest, 0.9 should have been 1.0… maybe even 0.8
I think that sums it up extremely well considering the last couple of updates have dramatically changed the way we use Alfred. The recent addition of extensions was certainly a game changer in my opinion. Now lets take a closer look at this version and see what it has to offer.
alfred  mac  osx 
november 2011 by Aetles
How to manage multiple Macs at home | Macworld
While it’s easier to manage a single Mac, it’s still possible to have control over multiple Macs within your home. Not only can you remotely configure parental controls on another computer, you can also monitor what your kids do with their Macs, limit the hours they have Internet access, and share media between the computers within your home.
mac  osx  multiplemacs  parentalcontrol 
november 2011 by Aetles
osx - Best visual client for Git on Mac OS X? - Stack Overflow
Update 2011-10-07: SourceTree is good enough that it gradually displaced all other git clients. Developer Steve Streeting was productive and responsive, churning out stable improvements. This week, Atlassian (maker of JIRA and other stuff) announced that they had acquired SourceTree (and Steve Streeting). That is probably good news, because it means more resources behind ST. Even better, SourceTree is now free "for a limited time". So now there is really no reason not to get the best git client for Mac.
git  mac  osx  versioncontrol  hg  mercurial 
november 2011 by Aetles
UCLA Knowledge Base : Turn off Spotlight indexing in Snow Leopard
In some cases, constant indexing of files inside large compressed files (eg: Netboot images) can cause a machine to become unusable. Simply unchecking options in System Preferences >> Spotlight will not help prevent Mac OS from constantly attempting to index those files.

Instead, indexing can be turned off from the command line. From terminal, type the following command to disable indexing:
mac  osx  spotlight 
november 2011 by Aetles
Raskin | Beyond Desktop
Inspired by Macintosh visionary, Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right. In minutes you’ll appreciate the simplicity and intelligence of our answer to the traditional desktop. Take a spin and see for yourself.
desktop  finder  mac  osx 
november 2011 by Aetles
TimeMachineEditor
TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.
You can change the interval or create a more sophisticated scheduling (see screenshot below).
 
This is useful if you don’t need to backup every hour and don’t want the performance penalty. This is also especially useful if you manipulate lots of data within one hour as you would spend the whole day backing up.
backup  mac  osx  timemachine 
november 2011 by Aetles
Time Machine Editor | One Digital Life
One of the most useful pieces of Mac software I’ve ever come across is, TimeMachineEditor. As the name implies, it allows you to edit the interval in which your Time Machine backups occur. It’s free, and it’s super easy to use!

Time Machine works very well for automatically backing up your Mac, but if you’re backing up to a network drive, like a Time Capsule, your Mac and your network can suffer some performance hits while the backup is in progress.

Time Machine runs every hour, and Apple didn’t include a way to edit that interval. I deal with a lot of big files that change often, so the result is Time Machine was constantly running, and I was really feeling that performance drop. With TimeMachineEditor I’m able to change that schedule so Time Machine only runs twice per day… once while I’m at lunch and once in the evening. It’s actually extremely flexible, as it will allow you to define anything from a new repeating interval, to scheduled hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly times.

If you use Time Machine to backup your Mac, I highly recommend using TimeMachineEditor.
mac  osx  timemachine 
november 2011 by Aetles
Sustainable Softworks Blog: Understanding the Controversy Around Sandboxing
Next, consider a program like Phone Amego which doesn't download media from untrusted web sites. Its reason for being is to provide Mac to phone integration by working with many other tools. It wants to integrate with Apple's Address Book, Daylite, Contactizer Pro, Launch Bar, Finder, Dropbox, FileMaker, EagleFiler, and be scriptable. Forcing an application like Phone Amego to be sandboxed puts the developer in the awkward position of choosing between dumbing down the application by removing features, or abandoning the Mac App Store version including the thousands of customers who have already paid for the application and expect future updates and support.
macappstore  sandboxing  mac  osx 
november 2011 by Aetles
Call Me Fishmeal.: Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates
The Mac needs to be as secure as the iPhone. The good news is Apple already has the tools. The bad news is they are forcing developers to use the wrong ones.

There are three primary ways Apple increases security of applications running on the Mac and the iPhone: Sandboxing, Code Auditing, and Certification. While all these are incrementally valuable, none is perfect on its own.

The problem Mac developers are facing is that the two that Apple is enforcing on the Mac App Store (Sandboxing and Code Auditing) are implemented currently to be actively bad for developers and not particularly good for users. And the method that would provide the most benefit for developers and users (Certification) isn’t enforced broadly enough to be useful.
apple  sandboxing  osx  mac  macappstore 
november 2011 by Aetles
App Store sandboxing coming in March; developers wary | Macworld
Change is coming to the Mac App Store. On Wednesday Apple announced that as of March 1, 2012, all apps submitted to the Mac App Store will have to implement a security system called sandboxing in order to gain approval. The result will be safer apps, but some developers fear that sandboxing may force them to strip out certain features.

Wednesday’s announcement to developers is actually a reprieve: When Apple first unveiled the sandboxing requirement at June’s Worldwide Developer Conference, it was supposed to go into effect this month.

Sandboxing is a security system that regulates the power individual apps can wield on your Mac. More technically, “sandboxing” means limiting an individual application’s access to your computer; rather than allowing it full access to, say, your Mac’s memory or file structure, a sandboxed app is instead confined to its own dedicated space.
macappstore  sandboxing  mac  osx 
november 2011 by Aetles
Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad | Naming Things
Apple announced today that, starting in March 2012, all apps on the Mac App Store will be required to run in the so-called “App Sandbox”.

The sandbox is an environment that locks down the Mac in ways that match (and exceed) the limitations found on iOS. A sandboxed app doesn’t have direct access to any files or frameworks on the system. It can’t access the network or any devices.

For the app, nothing else exists on the system except for those files and APIs that the operating system explicitly makes accessible to it:



By default, the sandboxed app doesn’t really have anything of its own. Even files in its own Application Support subfolder may be deleted by the operating system if it wants to e.g. reclaim some disk space. The sandbox analogy is quite fitting indeed — inside it, an app’s data has all the permanence of a sand castle.
apple  appstore  mac  macappstore 
november 2011 by Aetles
Mou: The Split Screen Markdown Editor for Developers | Mac.AppStorm
Are you sick of reading reviews for the same old Markdown text editor under different titles? Me too. Don’t worry, Mou is genuinely different.
Join us as we take a look at how Mou takes a unique approach to Markdown editing and how it may be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
markdown  mac  osx 
november 2011 by Aetles
Brendan's blog » Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X
For people who try to ignore the slowdown, the question can become:

why is my MacBook fan so loud?

Standard performance analysis tools like Activity Monitor and top(1) (and any third-party tools based on the same foundation) can’t tell you some key information about activity on your system, such as how much CPU consumption is caused by short-lived processes, or which processes are causing disk I/O. DTrace, however, can see (just about) everything.

In this post, I’ll cover the top ten Mac OS X DTrace scripts that I use for figuring out why laptops are slow or why applications are misbehaving. Most of these scripts are already installed, a few are from the new DTrace book.
mac  macosx  osx 
october 2011 by Aetles
Stormcloud, How to stop Safari 5 from unexpectedly reloading pages
Annoyed by Safari 5.1’s tendency to spontaneously reload pages when you didn’t ask it to? There’s a workaround for it, but it introduces a few problems of its own. Some Safari extensions will not work, and some of the new gestures won’t work either.
If you don’t rely on any extensions, and you can live without the new gestures (specifically, the new two-finger back/forward, smooth pinch-to-zoom, and the iOS-style smart-zoom), here’s how to fix it.
mac  safari 
september 2011 by Aetles
Heat and fan-noise issues with 2011 15” MacBook Pro – Marco.org
There’s trouble in my laptop paradise. I ended that with this caveat:

It’s much more comfortable to type on the 2011 model, with one big exception: the 2011 model runs much hotter.

I need more time to form a concrete opinion, but it seems so far that this CPU’s awesome performance definitely comes at a cost of increased heat and reduced battery life. For my intended usage as a desktop most of the time, that’s an acceptable tradeoff.

This turned out to be worse than I thought it would be, and today, the last day of my return period, I decided to return it and exchange it for a slower model.

The problem
Not only does the 2011 15” MacBook Pro run much hotter than previous generations, but as a result, the fans very frequently kick up to full speed (6200 RPM), greatly annoying anyone in the area who’s not wearing headphones.

I’ve done a lot of Google research and impromptu Twitter surveys, and this seems like a very common problem, exacerbated by a number of factors:
macbookpro  apple  mac 
september 2011 by Aetles
Favorite Mailboxes in Lion Mail » Matt Legend Gemmell
The recently released Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” (read my review of it at The Guardian) includes a new version of Mail, Apple’s desktop email client. There are several new features in Mail that I’m enjoying, and one of the least promoted is the new Favorites Bar. I think it’s very useful, particularly if you like to use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible, and so I’ve written this brief article describing how it works.
apple  lion  mac  osx  mail 
september 2011 by Aetles
Take Control of Your Paperless Office: Read Joe Kissell's advice in this book on using your Mac and scanner to reduce paper.
Take Control of Your Paperless Office

Learn the best ways to cut back on incoming and outgoing paper!

Join Joe Kissell as he helps you clear up the chaos of an office overflowing with paper. With Joe’s guidance you can develop a personal clean-up strategy and choose your Mac-compatible tools—a document scanner and the software you need to perform OCR (optical character recognition), devices and services for storing your digitized documents, and tools to categorize, locate, and view your digital document collections. Once you have your gear in hand, Joe then shows you convert your paper documents to digitized files and gives you ideas for how to organize your office workflow, explaining how to develop the day-to-day techniques that reduce the amount of time you spend pressing buttons, launching software, and otherwise managing your war on clutter.
business  life  mac 
september 2011 by Aetles
What I Learned at the Apple Store Today
Don’t buy Apple’s $69 OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive. The Apple Store webpage for the Lion USB Thumb Drive states: “When you install OS X Lion using the USB thumb drive, you will not be able to reinstall OS X Lion from Lion Recovery. You will need to use the USB thumb drive to reinstall OS X Lion.”

The reason for this limitation is that Recovery HD, before allowing you to reinstall Lion, checks with Apple’s servers to verify your computer’s eligibility. Unless you purchased Lion from the Mac App Store, the verification will fail.

What if you want both an Internet-free Install Lion thumb drive and the ability to use Recovery HD to reinstall Lion? Apple’s “official” solution is to purchase Lion from the Mac App Store ($29) and buy a Lion USB Thumb Drive. This will cost you $69 + $29 = $98.

But there is a far cheaper solution. Buy the Mac App Store version of Lion and make your own 5GB or larger USB Install Lion thumb drive, using a simple procedure detailed on numerous web pages (such as this Macworld article by Dan Frakes). Assuming your thumb drive costs $10, your final cost is $39 — saving you $59 over Apple’s official route.
mac  macosx  osx  osxlion  apple 
august 2011 by Aetles
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? - Apple - Stack Exchange
I would like to call for a place to list some little things that surprise you about Lion. There are so many articles and lists of all the new features with information overload, I would rather focus this spot of the site on tiny delights with a note why it makes a difference to you.

Please one topic per answer, this isn't a race to enumerate everything that changed. This isn't the place for massive topics like the implications of FileVault 2 on your entire workflow - just a stroll past some little gems, fun oddities or subtle changes specific to Lion.
mac  osx  tips  osxlion 
august 2011 by Aetles
Proudlove - Bl - How to boot from an encrypted external volume
I have recently been emaling Dave Nanian over at Shirt Pocket, who coded SuperDuper, one of the best Mac hard drive cloning apps out there. The reason why I was pestering Dave is because I wanted to find a way to encrypt the external drive that I was cloning too but still have it bootable in the event that my internal drive died.
mac  macosx  encryption  superduper 
july 2011 by Aetles
OS X Lion: How to Do a Clean Install
OS X Lion is now available from the Mac App Store and we know that many of you are preparing or have already started downloading and installing the new cat.

Because installation takes place entirely from within the Mac App Store, the usual “clean install” option isn’t present. If you’ve followed our guide for preparing your Mac for Lion, you’re probably in good shape to proceed with an upgrade. If, however, you long for the ability to do a clean install without having to first install Snow Leopard and THEN install Lion, Mashable has you covered.

If you want to create a bootable USB stick or burn a DVD of OS X Lion, read along.
mac  osxlion 
july 2011 by Aetles
Moom · Many Tricks
Do you spend a lot of time moving and zooming windows, so you can better see and work with all the content on your Mac? Instead of doing that work yourself, let Moom handle the task for you.
app  mac  osx  window 
june 2011 by Aetles
Feature: Retail stores, Apple’s risky gamble that paid off big time | 9 to 5 Mac Feature: Retail stores, Apple’s risky gamble that paid off big time | Apple Intelligence
On May 19, 2001 Steve Jobs took a cherry-picked entourage of journalists on a tour of the company’s first brick-and-mortar retail outlet located in the second level of Tysons Corner Center in Virginia. “Literally half the store is devoted to solutions. Because people don’t just want to buy personal computers any more. They want to know what they can do with them,” he later explained in the above promotional video shown to the gathering of devotees at the Macworld Expo 2001 conference.

As with all things Apple, however, pundits were quick to predict a huge fail. The store couldn’t possibly earn enough to cover the cost of overhead, let alone keep itself running, they argued. Naysayers came out of the woodwork all guns blazing, warning Apple would pay dearly for experimenting with such an expensive and unproven concept. Some critics even called Apple crazy to gamble away its fortunes. It wasn’t just the pundits and haters.
apple  mac  applestore  stevejobs  retail  success 
may 2011 by Aetles
Michael Tsai - Blog - Disabling Dropbox’s Haxie
Dropbox injects code into the Finder in order to draw the green and blue badges atop your icons. I prefer to run a clean system, and it turns out that you can prevent your Finder from being patched by running these two commands in Terminal:

sudo rm -rf /Library/DropboxHelperTools
rm /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxHelperInstaller.tgz
I first heard about this last year, and indeed it does not seem to interfere with any non-cosmetic functionality.
apple  dropbox  finder  mac 
march 2011 by Aetles
Sidestep | Chetan Surpur
When Sidestep detects you connecting to an unprotected wireless network, it automatically encrypts all of your Internet traffic and reroutes it through a secure connection to a server of your choosing, which acts as your Internet proxy. And it does all this in the background so that you don’t even notice it.

With Sidestep enabled, no one can eavesdrop on your traffic and impersonate you or see what you’re seeing as you browse the web.
mac  osx  proxy  security  wifi 
march 2011 by Aetles
GitX (L)
This is my own version of GitX and it meets all my requirements on my day-to-day use of Git on MacOSX.
git  gitx  mac  macosx  from instapaper
february 2011 by Aetles
osx - Why does MDS run wild in Mac OS X 10.6? - Super User
To see what mds and more importantly its child mdworker is actually doing - use fs_usage to log what files it is opening:

sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker
Though there is a lot of unintelligable stuff in there, it does tell you when it opens a file to begin reading from it. Copying a PDF into my filesystem shows mdworker opening the file then immediately after lots of activity...

p.s. if you want a little less detail, this will just list the open file points:

sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker | egrep "open"
mac  search  spotlight 
february 2011 by Aetles
Go To URL Faster on iPad - Mac OS X Hints
The process of loading a URL in a new tab on iPad can be rather cumbersome and slow. First, one launches Safari from the home screen, waits for the app to open and the old webpage to re-render, then one hits the tab switch button, presses the new tab space, waits for that tab to open, waits for it to switch to the search panel (this is the most irritating part of the process, since it seems to take even longer when what one really wants is the URL bar), and finally, one clicks on the URL bar to enter in a new URL.

To simplify this process considerably, just add a new icon to your Springboard that goes directly to about:blank. Details after the jump.
mactips  iostips  tips  mac  ios  mobilesafari  ipad  iphone 
february 2011 by Aetles
OneLessDrop by Dean Heckler — Kickstarter
In the time it takes to read this page, millions of power cords for mobile phones, iPads, and notebooks will slide off nightstands, side tables, and desks and fall to the ground. The global frustration created by this phenomena cannot be overestimated. This problem deserves an elegant solution.

Introducing OneLessDrop.
kickstarter  cables  mac  iphone 
february 2011 by Aetles
soma-zone: BackupLoupe
With BackupLoupe you are able to answer questions like
Why is Time Machine so slow?
Why is my Time Machine drive already full?
Which files are actually being backed up?
Has a particular file/folder been backed up at all?
How many revisions of a file/folder exist in Time Machine?
A file/folder was deleted accidentally. When did this happen and where is the latest backup?
Is my backup drive big enough? Should I consider buying a larger one? And if yes, when?
In addition BackupLoupe provides intuitive ways to restore any item backed up by Time Machine to any location or exclude directories from future backups.
backup  mac  timemachine 
january 2011 by Aetles
Apple-holic's shocking AAPL stats and fiscal facts - Computerworld Blogs
Apple's 91-day quarter yields some impressive numbers -- take them apart a little and you get the kind of stats you can reel off at a dinner party without being seen as too utterly crushing a bore, for example, did you know there's one iPhone being sold for every two people being born into this world today?

Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones in the December quarter. That sure is a lot of iPhones, and while dwarfed by the 650 million bottles of Heinz Ketchup sold around the world each year means Apple sells more iPhones each year than there are cars sold worldwide.
apple  mac  ipod  ipad  iphone 
january 2011 by Aetles
Plain Clip - Carsten Blüm: Mac Development
Plain Clip is a tiny Mac OS X application which will remove formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a face less application (i.e.: no graphical user interface, with the excep­tion of the preferences win dow), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey / launcher applications such as Spark or Launch Bar. For users of such tools, Plain Clip offers a way to invoke it with a shell command, which makes it possible to emulate a “Cmd-V” / “Paste” keyboard shortcut after the clipboard’s content has been converted.
mac  text 
january 2011 by Aetles
F.lux: software to make your life better
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

f.lux

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.
mac 
december 2010 by Aetles
The best Mac and iOS apps I used in 2010
Following up on my article about the best Mac apps I used in 2010, here are some of the best hybrid "Mac and iOS apps" I used in 2010. This wasn't an attempt to come up with a specific number, just the results of some careful reflection.

You may wonder why some apps appear on this list instead of the Mac list. For example, Dropbox has an iOS app, why not add it here? Because my primary use of Dropbox is on the Mac. Yes I use it with iOS, but it's usually through another app that is syncing back to my Mac. On the other hand, using OmniFocus for iPad (our review) led to me using OmniFocus for Mac more, so I put OmniFocus on this list.

All that is to say, these are my distinctions, and you are free to disagree with them.
mac  macosx  iphone  apps 
december 2010 by Aetles
In LA » Blog Archive » iTunes sharing over the internet using Back to my Mac and ssh port forwarding
I was at work the other week, doing a repetitive task of the sort that provides an opportunity to listen to music. I’d recently purchased an album and had stored it in the iTunes library on my home computer, but had not yet loaded the new songs onto my iPhone. There had to be a way to make iTunes at home share its music to my work computer so that I could listen to the new music. A few internet searches turned up some interesting information as well as a solution.
itunes  ssh  mac 
november 2010 by Aetles
Online Backup for Mac | Arq | Haystack Software
Backup You Can Count On
Arq backs up the critical files on your Mac to the Internet.

Your backups are stored at Amazon S3 ("Simple Storage Service"), the gold standard of reliable online storage in the industry, backed by Amazon.com, a large stable company.

Backups of your Mac are complete and accurate, including all "metadata" -- something that many other online backup offerings can't claim (see results).
backup  mac  macosx 
october 2010 by Aetles
rentzsch.tumblr.com: Backing Up Live VMware Fusion Virtual Machines
My theory detailed above is only one piece of the puzzle: with backup, automation is king.
Fortunately VMware Fusion 2 and later come with a vmrun command that gives us a basis to automate the taking of snapshots for backup purposes.
Here’s a small Ruby script that dynamically discovers all running VMs, creating a new snapshot unimaginatively named “backup snapshot”, deleting any old snapshots if present:
backup  mac 
october 2010 by Aetles
Color Oracle
Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.

Color Oracle applies a full screen color filter to art you are designing – independently of the software in use. Eight percent of all males are affected by color vision impairment – make sure that your graphical work is readable by the widest possible audience.
colorblindness  mac 
october 2010 by Aetles
Freeverse: Mac: Games & Apps: Think
Look around your screen right now. It’s okay, we’ll wait.

At this very moment, applications are fighting for your attention. Between chat windows, Finder windows, Web browser windows, and everything else, it’s amazing any of us can concentrate at all. As it has become easier to multitask, we’ve become more likely to have two dozen windows on the screen at any given moment. Innovations like Expose makes finding what you want in the sea of visual stimuli easier, but they’ve done little to remove those distractions.

Focusing takes concentration, and concentration takes energy. You can only concentrate on so much at a time, and you can’t create more energy. What we need to do is change how we work.

Let’s limit our attention to one application—any application—at any time. Let’s make it easy to change focus when we have to. Let’s allow ourselves to bring other apps up quickly if we need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly.

Let’s rediscover how to focus, and get back to thinking.
macosx  mac 
october 2010 by Aetles
Restricted SFTP in Mac OS X Leopard | MacResearch
On occasion you may want to exchange data with someone else. You'd like to grant that person access to your system (or network) but in such a way that the person has limited access to other areas of the system (or general resources on your network). This article will show you how to setup a chrooted jail that restricts the user to only SFTP on Mac OS X Leopard. It further limits the user so that they cannot traverse the filesystem outside the bounds you specify.
If you the exchange is one way (for example you want someone to be able to download a file), you can sometimes post it to a website and send them the URL. But sometimes you want to be able to exchange files back and forth. Of course for small files, email is the most obvious way to do this these days.
Another way that is increasingly used is to restrict the user to a specific portion of the computer that serves as the exchange intermediate (sometimes called a chrooted jail). FTP servers often offer such a facility, but more often people are moving away from FTP to other mechanisms. There are third party applications such as RSSH that can be used to create chrooted environments using secure transfer methods like SSH. They work, but sometimes they can be difficult to set up (or are not supported on the platform of choice).
mac  sftp 
december 2009 by Aetles
Overooped
Hur man kan ställa om Firefox 3 till att inte markera hela URL:en när man klickar i adressraden.
firefox;  safari;  gruber;  ui;  användargränssnitt  Mac  Webbläsare  Mactips 
april 2008 by Aetles
blah, and other stuff: Disable "Front Row" keyboard shortcut
Hur man slår av snabbkommandot som startar Front Row (kommando-escape)
Front  Row;  shortcut;  Mac  OS  X  Mactips 
april 2008 by Aetles
Exposé in Spaces
Exposé i Spaces är smartare än man kan tro.
Mac  OS  X;  Exposé;  Spaces;  Mactips 
march 2008 by Aetles
Apple - Small Business - Quick Tip of the Week
Ett smart tips om hur man reducerar storleken på PDF:er direkt i utskriftsdialogrutan via ColorSync och Quartz. Mycket smart.
colorsync;  Apple;  Quartz;  PDF;  Mac  Mactips 
december 2007 by Aetles
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins
En lista över 10 bra plugins till Quicksilver
Mac  OS  X;  Quicksilver  Mactips 
november 2007 by Aetles
Daniel?s Useless Site
Här kan man hitta binärer av NTFS-3G för Mac OS X, färdiga att använda med MacFUSE.
MacFUSE;  NTFS-3G;  NTFS;  FUSE;  Filsystem;  File  system  Mac  Unix  Lagring 
august 2007 by Aetles
Dave Dribin?s blog: Putting the "S" Back Into SSH
En bra artikel om varför man inte ska ha sin privata nyckel (för att använda SSH utan löseord) utan lösenord.
SSH;  SSHKeychain;  RSA  Mac  Mactips  Internet  Unix  Säkerhet 
august 2007 by Aetles
Safari: Reloading a page always bypasses cache
Laddar man om en sida i Safari så går man alltid förbi cachen, man behöver inte hålla nere nån tangent.
safari;  cache;  reload  Mac  Mactips 
august 2007 by Aetles
Apple - Pro - Tips - Forcing a Document on an App
Genom att hålla nere kommando-alt kan man dra och släppa filer på program som "vägrar" ta emot dessa filer.
mac  os  x;  tips;  Mactips 
february 2007 by Aetles
Aperture: Color and gamma settings for print and web
Apple rekommenderar Gamma 2.2 och D65 som generell inställning för att få bilder lika mellan mac och pc.
gamma;  srgb;  färghantering;  color  management;  profile;  färgprofil;  Adobe  RGB;  färgrymd;  space  Digitalfoto  Mac  Bildbehandling 
february 2007 by Aetles
Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net
En artikel om att använda en Infrant ReadyNAS NV som NAS i hemmet för krävande behov av datalagring. Handlar även om att bygga nätverk med backup osv.
NAS;  Infrant;  ReadyNAS  NV;  lagring;  backup;  home  network;  Mac  Teknik  Nätverk 
january 2007 by Aetles
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