To disable the internal screen for OS X Lion based laptops, launch the Terminal and enter the following command:

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

You’ll need to reboot for changes to take effect, and the internal display will then be completely disabled regardless of whether the Mac is open or closed.

To undo this, you can go back to the Terminal and enter:

sudo nvram -d boot-args

Then reboot again, or you can just zap PRAM by holding down Command+Option+P+R during reboot, which clears out the boot-args as well.

fix for the super annoying auto scale when printing from preview

echo "shopt -s globstar autocd" >> ~/.profile

Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attemps to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable.

Some have asked about restoring from a backup done this way. I just figured that out.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to do the restore during the system install, but it can be done after through Applications->Utilities->Migration Assistant.

You don’t have to have Time Machine configured to use the Samba share, but you do have to mount the Samba share in Finder, as described in this article. Then double-click the sparse bundle. This will verify and mount it. Now run Migration Assistant, and select “From a Time Machine backup or other disk.” Your backup will appear there, and you can restore from it.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Mercurial GUI for OSX

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key><string>nginx</string> <key>Program</key><string>/usr/local/sbin/nginx</string> <key>KeepAlive</key><true/> <key>NetworkState</key><true/> <key>StandardErrorPath</key><string>/var/log/system.log</string> <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key><true/> </dict> </plist>

Sequential is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga.

OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight and many Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.

Works on my 2007 macbook. Amazing.

The first takeaway is that Apple OS engineers don't want you to do stuff that they don't want you to do, and they specifically define "stuff they don't want you to do" as "stuff they don't think you want to do." This is actually endemic to Apple forums in general. Whenever someone says "I want focus follows mouse behavior!", some people inevitably reply that "you really don't want to do this". It's that whole "we designed it the right way for everyone" mentality that turns off so many would-be Mac users.

KeyRemap4MacBook is an awesome utility for keyboard customization for Mac OS X.

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

SecondBar is a Tool which allows you to have more than one menubar in Mac OS X. This is useful if you have multiple monitors connected to your mac

Open XML Converter allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac.

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Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.

Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.

with synergy

Mac Mini VPS

The SM2DGraphView framework is an open source project that makes adding nice looking graphs and/or pie charts to your Cocoa application a breeze. Below is a screen shot of the test application included with the framework project.