World of *Nix

At my work, sometime i need to take screenshot of my desktop to make reports. I was using grab (mac pre installed software). But here my main problem is i have to press lot’s of keys(mouse). After googeling i found that there is another solution: Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as [...]

Quick Look is a nice feature added in 10.5, I use it often for glancing at the content of various documents and it certainly beats launching an application. If you’re an avid command line user though, you may be browsing through a directories contents and wondering just what is that JPG or DOC file. Wonder [...]

As most of the ISP now following the MAC base network security, some time you may need to change your mac book/iMac’s ethernet cards MAC address. It’s now too simple on mac os x. just open a terminal and paste this command, and don’t forget to change this command with your correct mac address. sudo ifconfig [...]

As i am a web application developer, lot’s of time i have to work with css. And right now i am using CSSEdit , it’s simple amazing. It’s now giving 100% satisfaction, because here i can work even on live site with it’s own preview option. I can change the little thing and get the [...]

The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. By holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimization to expose. If you want something truly useless but kind of fun, you can make the slow effect [...]

On Sunday, Apple sold its one millionth iPhone 3G, the company announced today. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.” WOW, i wish i [...]

If you use your Mac on a cross platform network often, you’ve surely run into the obnoxious creation of .DS_Store files. If you’re curious what the file is used for, DS_Store is a hidden file for Mac OS X that stores various bits of data for the Finder to remember, like icon position, making it [...]

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