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<title>macosxhints.com 10.6 tips</title>
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<title>Older Core Duo Mac and Windows 8.1</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>Computers like the Intel &quot;Mac Mini 2,1&quot; were left behind with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) and Boot Camp 4. These restraints keep older machines from the benefits of current mac features, applications, and supported installs of Windows 8. However, these machines are well within the Microsoft system requirements for Windows 8.1 and installs are possible.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The older Core Duo Mac series cannot boot into 64-bit operating systems, and is excluded from modern versions of OS X, but Microsoft still supports 32-bit processors, giving many old Macs the opportunity to be re-purposed with a modern OS. I can confirm that if you use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 32-bit (no key needed) on a Core Duo Mac Mini, you can upgrade to Windows 8 32-bit from within Windows 7, and then do the same for Windows 8.1 (provided you have a license key for the final OS). Boot Camp 4 drivers work well for the 32-bit Windows 8.1, but I installed each one individually instead of using the BootCamp package ins ...</description>
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<title>Reduce CPU usage by removing video files from the Desktop </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>I was working on my iMac recently when I noticed the hard disk was working overtime. I checked Activity Monitor and found out the Finder was eating into my CPU, from 40% to over 100%.  I decided to take everything off my Desktop and  enclose it in a folder.  Doing so reduced the CPU to nothing until I opened the folder containing the documents.  I narrowed it down eventually to an MKV file I had. I can only assume it was QuickLook rendering the movie.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Reduce the files on your desktop, especially movies as these seem to eat into CPU even though you are not using them.  Even normal files need rendering every time your Mac launches, so there's no need to leave them there. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: The idea isn't new; we covered this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051117154624368&quot;&gt;back in 2005&lt;/a&gt;, and it's pretty well known that files on the Desktop can slow down Macs. The reason I'm posting this is because I have seen the same thing since Mount ...</description>
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<title>View an application's graphical resources in Preview</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>You can view all of an application's graphical resources - icons, pictures, UI elements, etc. - quickly and easily by dragging the application icon onto the Preview icon. When you do this, Preview's sidebar will show all of these items, and you can click on any of them to view it in the main window. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; If you do this with Keynote, you'll have access to all the graphical elements in the various themes the program contains; and with Pages, you'll be able to see all the elements from the program's templates.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; [&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Interesting, and a good way to copy certain graphical elements, notably from Keynote themes or Pages templates. Note that there are thousands of graphic files in these programs, so it can take a while to wade through them.] 
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<title>Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>Apple does not provide any way to count the number of characters in a selected text. Fortunately, you can create your own very easily using Automator.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Launch Automator and create a new Service. Add the Run AppleScript script action, then paste the following code:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:700px; height:200px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;on run {input, parameters}	try		set MyText to input as string		set NombreSignes to the number of characters of MyText		set NombreMots to the number of words of MyText		set NombrePara to the number of paragraphs of MyText		set LeResultat to &quot;The selected text contains :&quot; &amp;amp; return &amp;amp; &quot;- &quot; &amp;amp; NombreSignes &amp;amp; &quot; sign(s) ;&quot; &amp;amp; return &amp;amp; &quot;- &quot; &amp;amp; NombreMots &amp;amp; &quot; word(s) ;&quot; &amp;amp; return &amp;amp; &quot;- &quot; &amp;amp; NombrePara &amp;amp; &quot; paragraph(s).&quot;		display dialog LeResultat buttons {&quot;OK&quot;} default button 1 with icon note	on ...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Make a universal 10.6.7 Snow Leopard installer</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>Why do we need this? Because Apple quit releasing full retail versions of Snow Leopard with 10.6.3. If you have an Apple computer made after the Core 2 Duos, the 10.6.3 retail disk may not boot, and the 10.6.0 version won't boot at all. Early 2011 MacBook Pros fall in this category. Version 10.6.7 was the last version released on DVD, but the DVDs were locked to specific machines. We are are going to unlock a 10.6.7 DVD and make it a universal Installer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How to do it:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Use Disk Utility to make a read/write DMG of a 10.6.7 install disk for a MacBook Pro or  iMac. Version 10.6.6 might work, but I haven't tried it.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set the Finder to reveal hidden files:&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;open Terminal and type or copy and paste the following line:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;tt&gt;defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Press the Enter key.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Then type:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;tt&gt;killall Finder&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Press the Enter key again.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt; ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>A workaround for an iPhoto/set desktop bug</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>On both my Mac Pro and my iMac, I've run into a problem where the iPhoto library simply doesn't show up in the &lt;em&gt;Desktop &amp; Screen Saver&lt;/em&gt; System Preferences panel (in Mac OS X 10.6.x). Well, sometimes it shows up, but simply as a line reading iPhoto, but without any actual content.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When this happened the first time, I looked in Console and found the following entry for each time I'd tried to load the Desktop tab of the &lt;em&gt;Desktop &amp; Screen Saver&lt;/em&gt; panel:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;1/12/12 9:09:36 AM&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;System Preferences[4134]&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;**** DesktopPref error: DSKiPhotoRootSource -loadData TIME OUT!!! There something wrong with iLife Media Browser&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Googling on that error led to a number of pages, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1192&quot;&gt;iLife: Cannot See iP ...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Setting up the free iCloud account in Mail</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111228112119253</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>This hint describes how to connect your free me.com iCloud account with Mail.app on Snow Leopard.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Open Mail and do the following:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set a new account (+) (in prefs on Mail.app).&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set the new account to use IMAP (this is important).&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set the incoming mail server: &lt;em&gt;imap.mail.me.com&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set the outgoing mail server: &lt;em&gt;p04-smtp.mail.me.com&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Set the user name: &lt;em&gt;yourname@me.com&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Use the password associated with your AppleID.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Turn SSL on (port 993).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;That should do it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one, but it seems pretty straightforward. It sounds like you may have to try alternate server addresses. There is some more information to be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://castelliweb.com/2011/06/icloud-mobileme-lion-snow-leopard/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, as well as this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111014102515403&quot;&gt;previous hint&lt;/a&gt; about setting up iCal in  ...</description>
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<title>10.6: Set a firmware password from the command line</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>I am in the middle of mass deploying thousands of new MacBook Airs at work, and all my previous tools to set the firmware password no longer work in late 2010 or newer models of Macs. This was due to some sort of change on firmware, but I haven't dug deep enough to know what exactly changed. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I needed a work around fast so I was looking into the Firmware Password Utility found on the Installer DVDs. There is a tool called &lt;em&gt;setregproptool&lt;/em&gt; inside the package contents of this utility. This command line tool can be used to set the firmware password on your Mac. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My problem of course was that I did not have a new Installer DVD at all, in fact all I had were a few thousand of the USB OS X installer disks that ship with Macbook Airs.   So, if you open up Terminal and browse the Mac OS X Install USB stick, you will see these contents: &lt;pre&gt;&amp;#36; cd /Volumes/Mac&amp;#92; OS&amp;#92; X&amp;#92; Install&amp;#36; ls -ltotal 8254080-rw-r--r--@ 1 hadmin  staff    13447709 Dec  8   ...&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Access DFS shares</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110714183715726</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;The storage admins where I work have gone DFS mad. But if you're a Mac user, that would just make you plain old mad. That's because as great as DFS is for Windows users on an Active Directory domain, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard doesn't know what to do with DFS paths.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The rumor is that Lion 10.7 due any day now will finally support DFS but that doesn't help me now. So I created a command line tool to help deal with Active Directory DFS shares from a Mac. Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jescala.com/2011/07/access-dfs-shares-from-mac-os-x/&quot;&gt;dfstool homepage&lt;/a&gt; to download it and try it out.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I don't have DFS-enabled servers to test the functionality of this with. I installed and ran the tool just fine. I put it in &lt;em&gt;/usr/local/bin&lt;/em&gt; for ease of execution.]
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<title>10.6: Move files or folders in Finder (Cut/Paste)</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110710031458178</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;In Finder there is no easy way to move files, similar to Windows cut and paste (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V). I created a simple Automator Service, which does it for me.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To optimize it I created a macro in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/&quot;&gt;Keyboard Maestro&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When I select files or folders in Finder I call the macro and I can navigate to the target folder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's a pretty straightforward process:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Launch Automator and create a new Service.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;The Service receives selected 'files or folders' in 'any application.'&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Choose 'Get Selected Finder Items.'&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Then choose 'Move Finder Items To: &lt;name of your boot volume&gt;.'&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Tick 'Show this action when the workflow runs' under Options.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In Keyboard Maestro create a macro which will Execute Automator Workflow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds: ...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/name&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Option-click audio menu extra to choose source</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110705215436499</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;If you want an easy way to change the input or output sound source on your mac (say between the internal microphone and audio-in) in Mac OSX Snow Leopard you can simply option-click on the audio menu-extra in your menu bar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This hint is actually from commenter Monoclast on MacUpdate.com from a review on the program SoundSource which adds a new Menu Extra to do exactly this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it works as described.]
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<title>10.6: Paste a file path directly into a Save dialog</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110703000245518</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;A file/folder copied in Finder or a file/folder POSIX path string on the clipboard (such as '~/Documents/file.txt') can be pasted directly into a Save dialog by pressing &amp;#8984;V. The dialog will automatically open a Finder-style 'Go to the folder…' dialog and paste the path into it. Pressing enter will go to that location. It doesn't seem to work for Open dialogs, but pressing &amp;#8679;&amp;#8984;G then &amp;#8984;V gives the same result.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I discovered this by accident the other day. I'm on 10.6.7, I haven't tried it on other systems.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it works as described. I did a search and did not find a duplicate, but this seems like something that may have been mentioned before. I tried it on 10.5, and it did not exhibit this behavior.]
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<title>Compiling a Universal Binary from Autogen sources</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the same time, by placing the objects for each architecture in their own directory. To do this, you can use GNU make. Run &lt;em&gt;cd&lt;/em&gt; to go to the directory where you want the object files and executables to wind up and run the configure script. Configure automatically checks for the source code in the directory that configure is in and in &lt;em&gt;..&lt;/em&gt;; this is known as a VPATH build.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With a non-GNU make, it is safer to compile the package for one architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for one architecture, use &lt;em&gt;make distclean&lt;/em&gt; before reconfiguring a new architecture.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and executables that work on multiple system types (known as fat also universal binaries) by specifying multiple &lt;em&gt;-arch&lt;/em&gt; options to the compiler but only a single &lt;em&gt;-arch&lt;/em&gt; option to the preprocessor.&lt;br&gt; ...</description>
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<title>10.6: An Exposé feature in application switching</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110627092053322</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Here is another Exposé keyboard trick, this one available when doing Application Switching.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When Tab Switching between applications, besides Command+Tab, and Command+Shift+Tab (or Command+~); if you select the desired application, continue holding the Command key, and press 1, the selected application's windows are spread out Exposé style (from all Spaces).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it works as described. Like this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031201220111683&quot;&gt;earlier hint&lt;/a&gt; and others, there are lots of keyboard shortcuts built into Exposé which are not expected. I'm sure Mission Control in Lion will be full of surprises, too.]
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<title>10.6: Sync folder icons with Dropbox</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;As you may know, with Dropbox all is kept in Sync between computers, but there is something that doesn't sync: Custom Folder Icons. To solve this I wrote an Automator Service.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With this Service you can select a number of folders (with custom icons) and launch the menu option 'Dropbox - Backup folder Icons' from the Services menu in Finder. Then when Dropbox does its next sync, in the other computer where you want to recover the icons, just launch the other Service: 'Dropbox - Recover folder Icons.'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;INSTALL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just expand the zip file after downloading and move the Services to your &lt;em&gt;~/Library/Services&lt;/em&gt; folder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is more information on how to install and use the Services (including screenshots) &lt;a href=&quot;http://cocoe.tumblr.com/post/6768669553/sync-folder-icons-with-dropbox-mac-osx&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE: ...&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Free up system resources using Automator</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Given the popularity of utility programs that let you free up computer resources, it is worth noting that we can get the same effect free of charge using built-in system tools. The simple trick behind utilities that free up computer resources is the purge command. Instead of using any of these apps, it is enough to fire up Terminal.app, type in 'purge' (no quotes) and press Enter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This may be of course a bit cumbersome if we repeat this task often. In order to speed up the process and limit the procedure to a single click, we can use Automator to make a small app or a service to execute the 'purge' command.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Do do so we have to:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Open Automator and select 'Application' or 'Service' as our workflow.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Drag the 'Run Shell Script' action to our workflow from the Utilities section of the Actions Library.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Type in 'pu ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Completely Disable Virtual Memory in Snow Leopard</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;This hint is the result of an experience I tried in the last few days. It involves disabling the dynamic pager daemon and stop using virtual memory at all in Snow Leopard. I don't recommend doing it in previous OSX versions, or if don't want to take risks. Advantages, in my case, are obvious, and, so far, with no issues at all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My MacBook Pro, Core i5, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HD, has been a real pleasure to use; my previous machine was an old PowerBook G4, as slow as you can imagine. But even with the MBP, some slowness seems to sometimes appear in everyday usage (Parallels 6/Windows7, Firefox, Photoshop, Mail, iTunes always opened), specifically related to the disk activity (a 5400 RPM 320 GB, Hitachi drive). I suspected the paging activities  of OSX to be responsible for the general system slowdown. If so, no doubt the disk drive is the weak side of the  ...</description>
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<title>Get Safe Downloads List last update time and current version</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110602091032338</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Whether you are an IT admin or a vigilant home user who wants to know when the Safe Downloads list (used with Safari) was last updated, here's the Terminal command to do that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Date and Time (GMT):&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta LastModification&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Version Number:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta Version&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it work ...</description>
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<title>10.6: A script to display available Apple software updates</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110519082623257</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;This is a script that is supposed to be used with &lt;a href=&quot;http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/&quot;&gt;GeekTool&lt;/a&gt; if you are running as a non-admin user (as I am) and thus no longer get to see when new software is available from Apple.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I grew tired of being a good user and not run as admin anymore, but then not getting info about new software from Apple. Therefore I wrote 'SoftwareUpdateCheck.sh,' a bash-script that gathers info from the command-line utility 'softwareupdate' and presents it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In short:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;It checks the software update every six hours.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;It updates the presentation every fifteen minutes.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;The script checks for a new version of itself every two weeks and automatically updates itself.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can find all about it the options and functionality of the script  ...</description>
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<title>10.6: Combining Spaces and Exposé in a single swipe</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110519045836183</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.6</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;This hint shows how to combine Spaces and Exposé to show all open windows on all workspaces, using AppleScript and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boastr.de/&quot;&gt;BetterTouchTool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lion may have Mission Control but for Leopard/Snow Leopard users, it can be a pain to find a particular window among all the workspaces. The following AppleScript activates Spaces and Exposé together and orders windows by alphabetical order:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:120px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;tell application &quot;System Events&quot;  key code 100 -- F8 - Spaces  key code 101 -- F9 - Exposé All Windows  keystroke &quot;1&quot; using {command down}end tell&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It assumes you're using the default keys for Spaces and Exposé. Copy and Paste the script into AppleScript ...</description>
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