If you hide an application, you can reflect this in the dock by making the icons transparent. Just execute the following command in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
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defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ‘NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar’ -dict-add ‘TB Item Identifiers’ ‘(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain, Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)’
Source: macworld.com
Interesting list of all TCP and UDP ports used by Apple: Apple info
Source: Apple info
There is a big list here of services you can turn on/off on an apple computer running Tiger and/or Leopard.
Source: macgeekery
Just switch on the mouse and click a button.
On windows: Open up port 3389
On OsX: Open up port 3283 and 5900
VNC: Open up port 5900
First enter the following in a terminal window:
- defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
Then restart the Dock:
- killall Dock
Source: MacOsxHints
$ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
$ killall Finder
Source: MacOsxHints
Same as for Tiger, except that the path to ‘lsregister’ changed:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework\
/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework\
/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local \
-domain system -domain user
30
Oct
Switching to Leopard
Last friday, I bought the brand new Leopard. I started installing the new 10.5 on my Mac Pro from scratch.
Everything went fine, except for time machine. This is the result of my investigations, which took quite some time to figure out:
1. Disable time machine
2. Disable spotlight on every internal and external harddisk
3. Enable spotlight disk by disk waiting upon spotlight having finished after each disk
4. Enable time machine (see below)
If you don’t do it this way, it might take up a very long time for spotlight an certainly for time machine to finish its first job.
Update:If you still experience problems with backing up all at once:
1. Format your backup drive as described in other posts (GUID)
2. Exclude everything, except 1 directory with just 50MB or something in it.
3. Start TM
4. Gradually remove some exclusions, so TM can continue the backup… really gradually.
Success
