Toggle display of hidden files in Finder with keyboard shortcut [Update 2]

By madgunde, on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 8:23 pm

[Update 2] Still in early Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard discovery mode, I’ve started revisiting MacOSXHints.com much more regularly to find out what handy undocumented or at least not widely known tricks the new OS has up it’s sleeve. Today I came across this fantastic tip about how you can toggle the display of [...]


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Lock your Mac's screen like in Windows [Update 1]

By madgunde, on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 9:14 am

[Update 1] Anyone who uses Windows at work is probably familiar with the old Ctrl-Alt-Del <return> trick to quickly lock your screen when you step away from your computer. This displays a “This computer is in use and has been locked.” message which instructs you to press Ctrl-Alt-Del again to unlock the computer. Doing so [...]


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Turn your iPhone into a wireless keyboard & mouse [Update]

By madgunde, on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[Update 1] Like a lot of tech-savvy people out there, I’m using a Mac mini as the heart of my home theatre to play music, view photos, watch downloaded TV shows and movies as well as DVDs. I also do the occasional web surfing with it. For most of those uses, the tiny white Apple [...]


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Time Machine & AirPort Update breaks 10.5.2 Combo Update [Update 2]

By madgunde, on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm

About This Mac 9C7010[Update 2] So I recently attempted to re-apply the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo update to my MacBook Pro in the hopes that it would fix an annoying little bug that is preventing the contents of my Desktop folder to get dynamically updated. To my surprise, when I went to select my boot volume to install on, the Installer wouldn’t let me continue stating:

“You cannot install Mac OS X Update Combined on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.”

At first I thought my OS installation was corrupted, but before I reached for my Leopard install DVD to do a clean install I decided to investigate whether one of the recent Apple software updates may have caused the problem. Read on to see the results of my [...]


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Classic Lode Runner, on your Mac OS X Dashboard!

By madgunde, on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 7:18 pm

[Update 2] Mention “Lode Runner” to any veteran computer user and chances are they’ll not only be familiar with it, but they’ll have fond memories of playing it. It’s been remade so many times and for so many platforms over the years that many younger gamers are probably familiar with it as well. [...]


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