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How To Resolve Kernel Panics in Mac OSX
I had the fantastic opportunity to be the lucky recipient of kernel panics on my Macbook Pro that happen once every 24-48 hours. I’ve been trying to troubleshoot and resolve the kernel panic, because as you can imagine, it’s extremely counter-productive. I finally resolved it by removing a wonky KEXT (kernel extension) that turned out to [...]
Continue reading...How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
1. March 2010
The Mac runs on Unix, which makes it incredibly powerful. You might be running MAMP or a stand-alone version of Apache, and one of the things that you might want to run is cron, which is a scheduling tool. Instead of cron though, you could actually have your Mac just run a launch daemon. [...]
Continue reading...How To Batch Unzip A Series of Sequential Zip Files In Mac OSX
24. February 2010
I recently got a bunch of zip files, some sequential (X1.zip, X2.zip, etc), and others not. The thing is, they number in the hundreds, and most contain RAR files within them, and simply extracting each one won’t do. I had to find an automated way to unzip all the zip files, and the utility that [...]
Continue reading...How To Remove/Uninstall KEXTs In Mac OSX
23. February 2010
KEXTs are Kernel Extensions, and I realised that a program that I installed in the past (SteerMouse) had left its KEXT behind even though I uninstalled the program. You can see the list of KEXTs in your system at /System/Library/Extensions/, but do note that Mac OSX only loads whichever KEXT is needed. As you can’t just [...]
Continue reading...How To Disable Gmail’s Spam Filter or Spam Box With 2 Easy Steps
19. February 2010
There are several things that I hate, and one of them is spam. The problem with spam is not actually reading the spam, but having to live with all the workarounds that have now surfaced to reduce the onslaught of spam. For example: anti-spam filters in your mail program. In the past, like 10 years [...]
Continue reading...How To Activate/Install GD Library In WAMP Under Windows
16. February 2010
Some projects require activation of the GD library, and this is especially true when you have to do image manipulation with your PHP script. If you’re using WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) in Windows, then good news: WAMP comes with GD library, just that it’s not activated by default. To activate the GD library, go to [...]
Continue reading...How To Edit Cell With A Keyboard Shortcut In Mac Excel
8. February 2010
I was doing up several worksheets in Excel, and I was finding it incredibly disruptive to my workflow to edit a cell. I had to take my hands off my keyboard, reach out to my mouse, and double-click the cell before I could edit it. So I went searching, and turns out that there’s a [...]
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8. March 2010
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