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fseventer - FileMon for OS X #
fseventer 2.6.2 [450k] Monitors filesystem changes - think "FileMon for OS X".
/mac | Jul 12, 2008
Dear Apple: Please Consider These Proposed Changes to the Airport Firewall #- Stealth Mode
- Just like "Enable Stealth Mode" in Tiger: "Ensures that any uninvited traffic receives no response - not even an acknowledgement that your computer exists."
- Demand is apparent
- Offered by virtually every other consumer-grade router. Here's a port scan on the $51.99 Linksys WRT54GL:
And here's one run against the $299 Time Capsule:
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- Dynamic DNS (DDNS) support
/mac | Jul 05, 2008
Relocating default directories with symbolic links (symlinks) #While helping a friend setup his new 1TB RAID array, we discovered that iMovie '08 does not provide any apparent mechanism to change its default save directory (~/Movies). So we decided on the same technique I had previously used to move the Music, Pictures, and Movies folders out of a FileVault-encrypted home directory: symlinks. Wikipedia describes them best: "Symbolic links operate transparently: programs which read or write to files named by a symbolic link will behave as if operating directly on the target file." The following process worked great for our purposes, but please be aware that the slightest mistake or misunderstanding can cause irreparable data loss.
- Create Movies directory on RAID
$ mkdir /Volumes/RAID/Movies - Move existing files and folders from ~/Movies to Movies on RAID
$ mv ~/Movies/* /Volumes/RAID/Movies/ - Delete the now empty ~/Movies folder so we can create the symbolic link
$ rmdir ~/Movies - Create symbolic link named ~/Movies which points to the new location on RAID
$ ln -s /Volumes/RAID/Movies ~/Movies
/mac | May 23, 2008
OpenVPN Server and Client for OS X #I could not find any guide on the Net that simply described how to connect two Macs running Leopard via OpenVPN, so I decided to create one: Simple OpenVPN Server and Client Setup for OS X 10.5 Leopard.
/mac | Mar 02, 2008
Four Mac Apps: #- JollysFastVNC 0.96.12 [484k] Fast VNC client that plays well with OS X's VNC server / Screen Sharing.
- InstantShot! 2.5 [552k] Screenshot utility that runs in the menu bar.
- sudo fs_usage - Displays file system activity - think "FileMon for OS X".
- plutil - Checks the syntax of property list files, or converts a plist file from one format to another. Useful for validating that plist file you cobbled together at 2am.
/mac | Feb 22, 2008
G4 owners - get your Leopard awn! #Newly added to the Docs section: Install and Optimize Leopard on Unsupported Macs.
/mac | Feb 17, 2008
Leopard OS X 10.5 - Startup Keys Don't Work #If your Mac does not obey startup commands (like Command+C to boot from the optical drive), try using your Apple Remote instead:
- Turn on the Mac while pressing Menu on the remote
- A list of bootable volumes will appear
- Select the desired volume using Forward and Back on the remote
- When the desired volume is highlighted, press Play on the remote
/mac | Dec 17, 2007
Delete all files except... #While importing a My Pictures directory from Windows XP into iPhoto via drag-and-drop, the process would crash after several thousand photos. I suspected iPhoto was choking on a non-JPG file, so I recursively deleted all other files in the directory:
Find all files but JPGs: find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print Find all files but JPGs, and list them on one line: find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print0 Delete all files but JPGs: find . \( \! -iname "*\.jpg" \! -iname "*\.jpeg" -type f \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -fSure enough, after cleaning the directory of extraneous filetypes, the import worked flawlessly. Use the above commands at your own risk - unintended data loss is likely. As always: backup, backup, backup. (Thanks to Todd for his post, from which the above commands were largely lifted.)
/mac | Nov 15, 2007
Install Leopard on older, unsupported G4 Macs #Leopard will not install on a G4 with anything less than an 867MHz processor. Fortunately, suneohair has figured out how to get around this artificial limitation. On a related note, you can save some CPU cycles (and get back some usable screen space) by replacing the 3D Dock with the good ol' 2D version:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
UPDATE: Install and Optimize Leopard on Unsupported Macs
/mac | Oct 27, 2007
Simple QuickTime MOV cropping via Goldberg 2.5 #Goldberg 2.5 is a simple image and movie editor/viewer. However, it wasn't immediately apparent how to crop a QuickTime movie, so I have posted a brief howto video. The cartoon in the video (by Bizarro artist Dan Piraro) can be found here.
/mac | Sep 26, 2007
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