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One Thing Well | Disable Local Time Machine Backups
If you’re using a small drive, you can disable local backups with tmutil, like so:

sudo tmutil disablelocal
then later you can:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
osx  lion  tips 
august 2011 by amy
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? - Apple - Stack Exchange
This is a pretty great way to learn some of the unexpected improvements in Lion: (via )
osx  tips  from twitter_favs
august 2011 by amy
Secrets
A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X
osx  tips 
january 2010 by amy
Mac OS X v10.6: About Wake on Demand
I haven't used this yet, but it looks like my favorite user feature in SnowDacted. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774
twitter_fav  @wilshipley  osx  tips  snow_leopard 
august 2009 by amy
Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | List the 64-bit GUI programs on your Mac
locate -0 app/Contents/MacOS/ | xargs -0 file | grep x86_64
osx  tips 
august 2008 by amy
inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘NetNewsWire and other desktop apps: your RSS router’
One of my favorite features of NetNewsWire is how it works with a bunch of other desktop apps.
rss  osx  software  tips 
january 2008 by amy
Use 10.5's Help on menu items
use the new Help system to quickly find and execute menu items in most any program.
osx  tips  leopard 
december 2007 by amy
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