Archive for the 'OS X' Category

Use your Mobile Phone (cell) as a modem with your Mac

Friday, March 7th, 2008

So… you’re going on holiday. You’re going to a press event. You’re going to a conference. What ever it is you’re bound to find a time where WiFi is unavailable and browsing the net on your iPhone just won’t do it.
Here’s a how to to get you going. These are instructions for a Mac running [...]

Leopard Week 4: Improve the Earth Horizon wallpaper

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

There’s no question about it, Leopard ships with some simply beautiful wallpapers. In fact so did Vista earlier this year. The photographer involved is a very talented guy. Leopard comes with a Wallpaper ‘Earth’ which you will find on the iPhone that’s gorgeous. It also ships with a very impressive ‘Earth Horizon’ wallpaper. This is [...]

Leopard Week 3: Make Time Machine backup to unsupported drives (SMB NAS etc)

Friday, November 9th, 2007

This week’s tip is short and sweet. All it requires is for you to run some code using Terminal.
Simply Launch terminal (type term into spotlight and hit enter)
Type the following:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 (all on the same line)
Hit Enter!
Enjoy! Leopard should now allow backing up to those NTFS drives over Windows etc.
On another note [...]

iTunes 7.5, Quicktime 7.3 Released

Monday, November 5th, 2007

iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered and support for Phase, a new interactive music game designed exclusively for iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod (fifth generation). This release also includes bug fixes to improve stability and performance. QuickTime 7.3 addresses critical security issues and delivers:
Support for iTunes [...]

Leopard Week 2: Change your login (default) wallpaper

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Want to replace that gorgeous space wallpaper that Apple gives you with your new build of Leopard?
All you need to do is replace the file DefaultDesktop.jpg located in /System/Library/CoreServices/
Using spotlight (now super duper fast) and type disk util and hit enter. Select your drive and run a permissions repair.
Enjoy!

Leopard Week 1: Careful with permissions!

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

It’s Sunday 28th of October, two days since the release of Leopard. I’ve been running OSX 10.5 since Friday and everything is working very smoothly. I love the new look and have enjoyed playing around with Time Machine. I can’t wait for some hacks to allow backing up to SMB shares!
All I have to say [...]