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erics, March 24th, 2015 System Preferences » Keyboard » Text » Uncheck “Correct Spelling Automatically”
Categories: How-To's, Technology 10.10, apple, Check, Correct, Correct Spelling Automatically, Disable, Keyboard, macosx, Spell, Spellcheck, System Preferences, text(), turn off, Yosemite
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erics, March 24th, 2015 I have an older host running MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and I mount disk resources from there onto my new iMac 5K running Yosemite 10.10.2 Every now and then I get an error about sharingd crashing, and my network drives disappear. The quick way to get them back is to simply quit and restart Finder […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology 10.10.2, apple, Finder, howto, macosx, Share, sharingd, tips, Yosemite
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erics, March 19th, 2015 defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, defaults, defaults write, howto, key, Key Repeat, Mac, macosx, Repeat, tips, Yosemite
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erics, November 20th, 2014 Update Your Ports Tree $ sudo port selfupdate Show Ports Which Need Updating $ port outdated To upgrade all your installed and outdated ports, run $ sudo port upgrade outdated To upgrade only a specific port: $ sudo port upgrade {PORT_NAME} To list inactive ports: $ port installed inactive To remove all inactive ports at […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Common, Common Tasks, howto, Mac, macosx, MacPorts, tips
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erics, November 20th, 2014 Enter the following command in Terminal… To turn it OFF: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist To turn it ON: launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
Categories: How-To's, Technology Disable, howto, macosx, Notification, Notify, tips, Yosemite
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erics, October 29th, 2014 SET THE DEFAULT TO SHOW Run this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder: Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard, then right-click the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. SET THE DEFAULT TO HIDE defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO then relaunch finder as above.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Command, Command line, defaults, defaults write, Exec, Execute, Finder, Hide, howto, MacOS, macosx, OSX, Show, Terminal, tips, Yosemite
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erics, November 18th, 2013 YMMV…
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rm ~/Library/PubSub/Database/Database.sqlite3 cd ~/Library/PubSub/Feeds; rm -r * rm ~/Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db |
/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/PubSub/Database/Database.sqlite3 vacuum
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, crash, Crashes, Crashing, howto, Mac, macosx, OSX, Safari, tips
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erics, October 12th, 2013 I am tired of various programs taking control of my webcam, i.e. Skype, GoToMeeting and others… After searching for a while I found the following website with two awesome Applescripts, one for Snow Leopard and one for Lion. Open the script in the Applescript Editor, and do a Save As. Choose Application and save someplace […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Camera, Disable, Enable, howto, iSight, Limit, macosx, Stop, tips, turn off, WebCAm
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erics, August 22nd, 2013 In Terminal:
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sudo mv /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration.plist /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.network.eapolclient.configuration.plist.good |
Then reboot. YMMV… This is why I am so upset with Apple these days – they constantly “dumb-down” MacOSX, removing features to “protect” the innocent public from harming themselves with the click of a mouse. Perfectly reasonable advanced features that existed in 10.6.8 are no-where to be found in 10.7 Lion (bad) […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology 802.1X, Delete, howto, Lion, macosx, OSX, Profile, Remove, tips
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erics, August 9th, 2013 Open Terminal and run the purge command, located in /usr/bin/. Note: You may need to have XCode Developer Tools installed in order to use the purge command. YMMV… As per Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342 Inactive Memory: This information is in RAM but it is not actively being used, it was recently used. For example, if you’ve been […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Clear, howto, Inactive, Inactive Memory, macosx, Memory, Purge, tips
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