Category: macOS
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Mac OS X: Showing and hiding filename extensions
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Showing and hiding filename extensions
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Rosetta (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosetta (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Rosetta is a lightweight dynamic translator for Mac OS X distributed by Apple. It enables applications compiled for the PowerPC family of processors to run on Apple systems that use Intel processors. Rosetta is based on Transitive Corporation’s QuickTransit technology,[1] and is a key part of Apple’s strategy…
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MonoMac links .NET to Apple’s GUI – The H Open Source: News and Features
MonoMac links .NET to Apple’s GUI – The H Open Source: News and Features
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.DS_Store – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.DS_Store – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From www.greci.cc:By default, MacOS X will create a .DS_Store file in every folder it accesses, while this is ok in OS X it may be annoying for network shares. To prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes execute this from a Terminal: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
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Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard): the Finder hangs again
I tried to make LibreOffice the default application for a file on a Samba network folder, and Finder hangs – not LibreOffice. I am now going to kill Finder, and I assume during the remainder of the day I also have to restart the entire OS again, which implies restarting almost all applications with all…
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the coming App Store for Mac OS X: the next Apple jail?
First it sounds like the App Store will help the users to have a single point, where to find and update apps for OS X. But then: look what it means on iOS, i.e. the iPhone and the iPad: it means: apps will only find their way to your device through Apple’s “placet”, and finally…
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Homebrew — The missing package manager for OS X
http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
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“drag and drop” and the cmd-key
My Situation: 2 finders open, one pointing to a local disk, the other to a remote disk. If you drag (using the cmd-key) exactly one file from that “local finder” to the “remote finder”, the meaning of the operation is “move”. If you drag (using the cmd-key) more than one file from that “local finder” to the…
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peeking and poking Google Chrome
Is there an “ordinary way” to get the “extensions” listed, or is this pseudo-URL “the ordinary way“: chrome://extensions/? (Now, that I wrote of it here, I can finally close that tab, as I was really worried to forget it again. BTW: of course also this list is made far nicer then everything (at least) I can…
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what’s the right Unix-ish software and hardware in 2010?
In 1994 I had no doubt: it’s a PC with some Linux distro on it. And changing my mind was out of the question until not so long ago. Now in 2010 I am doing things on a Samsung 17″ notebook running some openSUSE Linux, and I am doing things on a MacBook Pro with…