How to reinstall Apple App Store The Apple Store now allows Apple to bundle applications in an easy to download “iOS” like way. Since it’s release OS X application manufactures have been slowly moving over to it as a distribution channel for their apps. Some popular apps are now only available via the App store. [...]

How To: Manually update OS X time from Command Line 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 [...]

If you need a driver for HP Printers on Apple OS X Lion, you can download it from here: Apple HP Printer Pacakge The full list of compatible model printers it works with are here.

Most users don’t need to use this command, but it’s very helpful for web developers and network admins to troubleshoot issues with web sites. This command is run via terminal. On Leopard (10.6) and Snow Leopard (10.7): (as root or admin user) dscacheutil -flushcache On all other version (10.0 – 10.4): (as root or admin [...]

How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too. To do this, you need to also deploy the following files: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist Deploying these files will keep also [...]