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How To Run The Apple Hardware Test On Your Mac
After I did my last post on 4 Months After Switching Over From Windows To A Mac, I got asked about how I actually ran the Apple Hardware Test on loop mode. To do so, you’ll need the Applications Install DVD that came with your Mac. This is the one that has a little block [...]
Continue reading...How To Select Columns of Text in Your Browser (FireFox)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
This is a neat trick for copying columns of text from a table into some other application. This is particularly useful when you don’t need the whole table of information, and just want one column or several columns (e.g. just the usernames from a list of members). I haven’t tried it on other browsers, but [...]
Continue reading...How To Use Spaces Effectively With Multiple Monitors On The Mac
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Many people swear by Spaces, a feature on the Mac that allows you to have multiple desktops, and have applications “assigned” to each desktop. I think it’s a fantastic idea too, but using it together with multiple monitors just creates a bad experience. The current problem with it now, in my opinion, is that Spaces [...]
Continue reading...How To Resolve Kernel Panics in Mac OSX
Monday, March 8, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
Monday, March 1, 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. Just [...]
Continue reading...4 Months After Switching Over From Windows To A Mac
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Surprisingly, the transition from a Windows to a Mac wasn’t as jarring as I had thought, and it turned out to be pretty uneventful. It’s been 4 months since I bought my Macbook Pro, and the overall experience’s fantastic, save for 2 cases. 1. Windows-only Applications I deal with Windows-only applications that do not have [...]
Continue reading...How To Find The Location Of An Executable Program In The Mac Terminal
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Mac platform is amazing, and what makes it even more powerful is that it’s running on Unix, so you have the incredible power of bash and the shell terminal at your disposal. For instance, what takes 5 clicks and 30 minutes of your time might just be solved by running one command in Terminal [...]
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
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