For those eagerly awaiting the latest security patches from Apple on Snow Leopard, they’re here! Client version can be downloaded here. Server version can be downloaded here. From Apple’s KB Article about the Client version, here are the fixes. General operating system fixes provided for: an issue that caused data to be deleted when using [...]

How To: Disable Dashboard in OS X Dashboard in Leopard is a love it or hate it application. There are several useful applications that can make life easier. On the other hand, it’s easy to hit the activation buttons on Mighty Mouse by accident. Other people may begrudge Dashboard’s use of memory. It’s not much, [...]

In OS X there are two ways to do everything. Via the GUI, or Via the command line. Frequently the GUI method does fine for most uses. But sometimes a bit more information is needed. In the GUI, getting Disc Usage is simple. Open Finder, click on the drive and look at the bottom of [...]

This is a cool little hack. Enabling Disk Mode for iPods allows it to become just that, a nice USB Disk drive, or a way to get those MP3′s back after a hard drive crash. In Terminal type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE Then type: killall Finder (make sure to capitalize Finder) When the iPod if [...]

1.) Software update takes over the entire machine. While this isn’t that big of a deal, a large update on a slow connection could render the machine useless for several hours while it downloads the files. You could also manually pull down the update and run it. But one of my favorite tricks was to [...]