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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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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Set Safari's window size with one click of the mouse

By madgunde, on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10:36 pm

OK, here’s a hint I think a lot of you Windows switchers are going to love, and I’m sure more than a few long time Mac users will appreciate as well. I love Safari. I think it’s the best web browser out there. My primary Mac is a MacBook Pro that I [...]


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Useful Mac OS X Terminal Commands

By madgunde, on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:01 am

Mac OS X is a very powerful OS. One of it’s most amazing traits is how well it scales from being dead easy to use for novice users to allowing power users near unlimited capabilities. The former comes from the excellent UI design and GUI tools that Apple has built, the latter from [...]


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