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Category Archives: Mac
Prevent Time Machine Backup Resizing
If you are using Time Machine to backup your Mac onto a network share, you might have noticed, that since the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 update the sparsebundle image used by Time Machine has been resized to use the whole capacity … Continue reading
Setting up the OSX terminal application
By default the terminal app in OSX is not configured the way you are used to on a Linux system. There is no color output for ls and things like page up and page down are not working via SSH. … Continue reading
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Reloading kernel extensions
Sometimes it might be useful to reload a kernel extension in OSX without rebooting your Mac. This can be done in a terminal window with the following commands: sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/NameOfExtension.kext sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/NameOfExtension.kext Replace NameOfExtension.kext with the name of … Continue reading
2D Dock in Leopard
The new 3D styled Dock in Leopard is looking very stylish, but I think the 2D style which is used by the Dock when located on the left or right screen border is more functional. It is also possible to … Continue reading
Coupon for german Amazon store
This might be interesting for all of you, who want to order Leopard in Germany. If you use the following coupon code during the ordering process, you will get a 10 Euro discount on Leopard at amazon.de: AMZNLPRDAPPL This offer … Continue reading
Leopard is coming
Today Apple officially announced that OSX 10.5 alias Leopard will hit the stores on October 26th. Leopard has more than 300 new features compared to 10.4. Take a look at the link for a nice summary of the new features. … Continue reading
Essential Mac Tools
After working more and more with my Macbook instead of my desktop PC, I have found a couple of really nice tools for mostly all of my daily tasks. So here is a small list of tools and utilities which … Continue reading
Apple introduces new iMac
Everyone has been expecting the iMac upgrade for the last couple of months and today was the day that the upgrade finally was presented at the summer Mac product press conference. The design of the new iMac is really breathtaking. … Continue reading