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I have multiple monitors on my mac and for some reason on OSX Mavericks my dock kept jumping from one screen to another. This has been happening for too long so I finally spent some time figuring this out. Go to the screen that the dock currently is not on. Click the center of the…
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Recently I had to connect my PHP application to a MSSQL server. This is a step by step guide to viewing, updating and editing MSSQL Server databases on your Mac! Step 1: Download SQL Development. Oracle has an excellent FREE SQL development tool, SQL Developer that will allow you to connect to a MSSQL database server….
Read More...ve just read with pleasure, and learned a lot from these questions : OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks OS X Hidden features and nice tips & tricks OS X Applications you can’t live without But I didn’t find in these some of my favorites tools, which I use on a daily basis, and I think…
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DNS cache keeps an IP address stored in your computer. If you’re doing web development and you’ve moved your content to a new server sometimes you can’t reach it. The DNS entry needs to be changed. For Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Use This Tutorial In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Open up your terminal…
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After my OSX 10.9 installation of Mavericks my email accounts stopped being able to send email. I looked in the outgoing mail preferences in mail and I didn’t have any outgoing servers. I re-entered my outgoing SMTP server settings and saved them but I still couldn’t send. Furthermore, the new settings I just entered completely…
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Opera Omnia: Tom Pennings’ Blog: Mounting Linux (ext2/ext3) partitions under Mac OS X.
Read More...I ALWAYS forget how to reset DNS cache. This is especially useful when moving sites to a new server. Mountain Lion or Lion Use the following Terminal command to reset the DNS cache: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder Mac OS X v10.6Use the following Terminal command to reset the DNS cache: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache via OS…
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Many a time I want to see how the site I’m working on loads on a slower connection. A 20gb Fiber connection is not ‘real world.’ These are some Bandwidth Limiter, Bandwidth Throttle, Bandwidth Shaping apps that I’ve found. I’ve been using SPEEDLIMIT AND Slowly (there’s a free version.) Entonnoir http://tools.chocoflop.com/entonnoir_en.html SPEEDLIMIT Speedlimit is a…
Read More...Sync Contacts, Calendars If you want to synchronize contacts or calendars between two or more Macs, access your contacts or calendars via the Web, or both, you have several choices. Address Book Sync Starting with OS X 10.5.3, Apple’s Address Book application can natively sync your contacts with Exchange, Yahoo, or Gmail Contacts, without requiring…
Read More...So, I’ve encountered this problem a few times now where hovering over any menu or link doesn’t work and your Dock Zoom stops. I thought I’d share a solution because it’s REALLY ANNOYING! First, make sure your batteries are charged. I find this problem begins when my batteries are low and I get stuck without…
Read More...http://blog.codefront.net/2008/09/10/optimize-firefoxs-memory-usage-by-tweaking-session-preferences/ I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user – I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development). When it got to the point where…
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recently i wanted to put some html5 <video> into a site. and then i was stuck trying to find an OGG video converter for mac. here’s the solution FFMpeg2Theora. it’s command line and very simple to use. http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ # ffmpeg2theora yourFile.m4v I’m using the .m4v and the .ogv file on a wordpress site to display…
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someday in the near future when you’re forced or tricked to update iStats. here’s a real nice alternative atPurpose atMonitor http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/ another nice feature with atMonitor is the ability to “purge memory” – sometimes firefox will get up to 800mb+ on me and i trim the fat off of it. you’ll need to download CHUD…
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Although shared folder support is not as good as other competitors, VirtualBox provides quite satisfied solution for shared folder. In order to create a shared folder, you need to… Click on the cute folder icon at the bottom of the VirtualBox window Go through the process of setting the shared folder In the Windows OS,…
Read More...found this thread wo3:~ admin$ cd /etc/emond.d/rules/ wo3:rules admin$ sudo su Password: sh-3.2# ls -l total 40 -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 5252 Mar 16 2008 AdaptiveFirewall.plist -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 366 Dec 31 2008 DiskStatus.plist.previous -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 5042 Aug 30 2008 SWUpdate.plist sh-3.2# rm -Rf *.* i delted all the emond daemon…
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ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host noticed in system log: Mar 16 11:39:24 hosting pop3d: Mar 16 11:39:24 hosting pop3d-ssl: Mar 16 11:39:24 hosting sshd[8243]: fatal: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. i opened up Disk Utility and “Fixed Permissions” on the drive and voila… i’m able to connect to…
Read More...for the umpteenth time i’m having to get the printer working. IJ Network Tool finds the printer: canon downloads network setup guide: MX850_NSG_EN_V1.pdf file install locations: /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Utilities/Canon IJ Network Tool /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Utilities/Canon IJ Printer Utility canon drivers for snow leopard
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