Apple
Add spacers to the Leopard Dock
29/02/2008 09:45 PM Filed in:
Mac OS X
The dock in Mac OS X Leopard is
generally functional but once populated with a lot of applications
can become quite cluttered.
One way of solving this is by using an undocumented method of adding a spacer to the dock. To do this fire up Terminal and enter the following two lines:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type" = "spacer-tile";}'
$ killall Dock
You can then drag the spacer to its desired location. To add more spacers just repeat the above commands as many times as necessary.
One way of solving this is by using an undocumented method of adding a spacer to the dock. To do this fire up Terminal and enter the following two lines:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type" = "spacer-tile";}'
$ killall Dock
You can then drag the spacer to its desired location. To add more spacers just repeat the above commands as many times as necessary.
Additional Network Devices for Time Machine
06/11/2007 01:03 PM Filed in:
Mac OS X
Apple's Time Machine is a perfect
example of a consumer backup tool done right. Uncomplicated and
great at enticing the user to actually use it.
Unfortunately Apple in trying to keep it consumer friendly stopped short of allowing Time Machine to see all the possible network devices you may have that could be potential Time Machine backup drives.
To fix this fire up Terminal and enter the following line:
$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
You will now have access to devices such as D-Link's DNS-323 which wouldn't normally show up in Time Machine.
Unfortunately Apple in trying to keep it consumer friendly stopped short of allowing Time Machine to see all the possible network devices you may have that could be potential Time Machine backup drives.
To fix this fire up Terminal and enter the following line:
$ defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
You will now have access to devices such as D-Link's DNS-323 which wouldn't normally show up in Time Machine.
Tweak the Leopard Dock
24/10/2007 01:35 PM Filed in:
Mac OS X
Don't like the new 3D look to Mac OS X Leopard's dock? Fire
up Terminal and enter the following two lines:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
$ killall Dock
You'll now be treated to a 2D dock without the 3D glass effect that some have found to be quite annoying.
$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
$ killall Dock
You'll now be treated to a 2D dock without the 3D glass effect that some have found to be quite annoying.
The Last Gasp of DRM?
19/02/2007 11:23 AM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
It seems that Steve Jobs got under the
skin of quite a few organisations with his Thoughts on Music piece. And as could be
expected many of those same organisations began squealing like pigs
at the mere mention of DRM being scrapped any time soon.
Macrovision, a long time purveyor of such 'quality' DRM, responded to Steve Jobs in an open letter which Daring Fireball has kindly unravelled for us all to read and digest:
Macrovision Translation
Macrovision, a long time purveyor of such 'quality' DRM, responded to Steve Jobs in an open letter which Daring Fireball has kindly unravelled for us all to read and digest:
Macrovision Translation
The Music Industry and DRM
07/02/2007 03:47 PM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
Steve Jobs has published a well written piece on
the current state of DRM in the music
industry:
Thoughts on Music
Daring Fireball has published an equally well written response further expanding some of points raised by Jobs:
Reading Between the Lines
Interesting times are most definitely ahead.
Thoughts on Music
Daring Fireball has published an equally well written response further expanding some of points raised by Jobs:
Reading Between the Lines
Interesting times are most definitely ahead.
John C. Dvorak Just Keeps On Rambling
25/01/2007 12:03 PM Filed in:
Miscellaneous
I'm starting to wonder if 'talking
rubbish' should be a national crime punishable by death both here
in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
Whilst we in the UK have had the recent pleasure of trying to avoid Jade Goody's ill-advised use of her mouth on TV, over in the US the esteemed John C. Dvorak once again begs the IT industry to question why this quack is still being paid to write the following diatribe:
A Unified Linux
It's one thing to readily admit to baiting Apple Mac users for the purpose of generating traffic to his badly written articles. It's another to keep on spouting crap such as this and actually think that people will ever (or ever did) take you seriously.
And please don't get me started on Rob Enderle. A lot like London buses, when one peddler of rubbish comes along another isn't too far behind.
Whilst we in the UK have had the recent pleasure of trying to avoid Jade Goody's ill-advised use of her mouth on TV, over in the US the esteemed John C. Dvorak once again begs the IT industry to question why this quack is still being paid to write the following diatribe:
A Unified Linux
It's one thing to readily admit to baiting Apple Mac users for the purpose of generating traffic to his badly written articles. It's another to keep on spouting crap such as this and actually think that people will ever (or ever did) take you seriously.
And please don't get me started on Rob Enderle. A lot like London buses, when one peddler of rubbish comes along another isn't too far behind.
PHP on Mac OS X
03/03/2006 03:00 PM Filed in:
Mac OS X
To enable PHP 4.x on an installation
of Mac OS X Tiger, just follow these 8 simple steps:
PHP has now been enabled.
- Launch Terminal which can be found in Applications > Utilities
- Launch Nano (a simple command line text editor) by entering the following command at the prompt (you will be prompted for your password): sudo nano -w /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
- Locate the following line by pressing CTRL+W and entering the following text: #LoadModule php4_module
- Remove the # from the beginning of the line.
- Locate the following line by pressing CTRL+W and entering the following text: #AddModule mod_php4.c
- Remove the # from the beginning of the line.
- Save the file and exit Nano by pressing CTRL+X
- Finally restart Apache by entering the following command at the
prompt: sudo apachectl
restart
PHP has now been enabled.