October 21, 2011
How To: Force Spotlight on OS X to re-index
From the command line:
sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -i on /
The amount of time this will take depends on how many files are on your hard drive.
October 21, 2011
From the command line:
sudo mdutil -E /
sudo mdutil -i on /
The amount of time this will take depends on how many files are on your hard drive.
October 21, 2011
Sometimes OS X’s time and date gets out of sync with the real world, and using the option “Set date and time automatically:” doesn’t always work.
You can use this command in terminal to update it manually:
ntpdate -u
The server address can be any of the Apple Servers such as time.apple.com or the free [...]
June 22, 2011
Quick Look in OS X is an awesome feature. I’m constantly using it to check out PDF files without needing to open them.
But in some environments, it doesn’t make sense or causes a huge amount of issues.
At the terminal type; (as root or admin user)
defaults write “$3/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.quicklook” Disabled -bool true
Restart the Finder, and [...]
June 21, 2011
Equation Editor in Office 2008 should be installed by a default install of Office. If for some reason it is not, you’ll need to find your Office Disc and reinstall Office 2008 for Macintosh.
To check if Equation Editor is already installed, look in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office , the Application, Equation Editor should located there. But [...]
June 16, 2011
Spaces is OSX’s cool virtual window program that allows “multiple” desktops to be setup. The thought is that it allows you to group programs together by task and thereby increasing your workflow productivity.
Apple has a great tutorial on how to really maximize it’s usefulness.
But some of us want to tweak it’s usability. For instance [...]