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remove items from snow leopard taskbar
Hold Command, click the icon and drag it off of the menu bar.
Read morefind the bpm (beats per minute of any song) osx windows
MixMeister BPM Analyzer is a free program you can use to determine the exact BPM (beats per minute) of any song without DRM. MixMeister is available for free to download from http://www.mixmeister.com Calculate extremely accurate BPM counts for any song Drag and drop music files from Windows Explorer Display and sort files by Title, Artist, [...]
Read moreosx iTunes freezes on start
There are probably hundreds of reasons why iTunes might freeze. This worked for me by restoring the file “com.apple.iTunes.plist” from a backup. The file can be found in /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Preferences
Read morehow to completely remove iWeb 09
delete the following 1) the preference file in Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWeb.plist 2) the domain file in Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb 3) the iWeb.pkg in the System Library/Receipts 4) the iWeb file in User Library/Caches
Read moreHow to set osx system default to British English
To set system language to British, in Terminal at the prompt, type the line below and hit Enter defaults write -g NSPreferredSpellServerLanguage “en_GB” You can also do this from the System Preferences Panel
Read moreosx terminal ifconfig command
type ifconfig from the osx Terminal to see information about your network adapters This is useful for getting your Mac network card’s MAC Address Type ifconfig | grep inet to return just the ip address of your network apapters You can disable and enable network adapters by typing ifconfig en0 down ifconfig en0 up
Read moreosx terminal lsbom command
lsbom can be used to examine the contents of a Mac OS X installer (.pkg) It will give you a very detailed view of all the files a package intends to install on your Mac. From the osx terminal just type lsbom .pkg/Contents/Archive.bom> | more If your installer came as a disk image then you [...]
Read moreCompletely un-install osx MediaCentral
MediaCentral consists of 3 modules The MediaCentral main application The system preferences pane The MediaCentral Launcher To uninstall completely please do the following Move the main application into the trash. Move the MediaCentral system preference pane located in ~/Library/PreferencePanes into the trash. Move the “MediaCentral2″ application support directory located in ~Library/Application Support into the trash. [...]
Read moreosx terminal “top” command
The Mac OS X command line interface is offers thousands of useful commands. top typing top from the command line will display a list of every process currently running on your Macintosh. You can probably find a few processes which you didn’t know where there from previously installed software that you no longer need.
Read moreusing osx Time Machine and unsupported NAS storage
Warning about using Time Machine and non-Apple NAS storage… The disk image used for the backup may become corrupted if it is not unmounted cleanly by the third-party fileserver. (E.g. anytime the network is interrupted during a backup) You could end up with journal data not being flushed to the disk image, which may corrupt [...]
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