Archive for the ‘ OS X ’ Category

Invoke Quicksilver In All Spaces After 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Upgrade

After upgrading to 10.6 my beloved Quicksilver had grown some new bad habits. If I wasn’t in the first space (#1 / top left), Quicksilver would bring me back there every time I invoked it. So if I was trying to open an app or run a command in Space #2, running a Quicksilver command [ READ MORE ]

Solve Slow iDisk Syncing After Upgrading to 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

I use iDisk Sync (via MobileMe) to keep my desktop and my laptop in sync so I don’t have to remember to copy files back and forth every time I grab one or the other. This worked great until my upgrade to 10.6 – ever since then the iDisk status bar would say “Checking items” [ READ MORE ]

Sync And Share Your iCal Calendar With Multiple People Using BusySync and Google Calendar

My wife and I keep our calendars in iCal, but without some divine intervention we couldn’t sync our calendars or view each other’s calendar in iCal. We ran into this same issue at the office as well – I needed our Project Manager to see my calendar, but because we were both using iCal we [ READ MORE ]

Hidden Files in OS X Finder – No Terminal Hacking With Path Finder

I posted a way to show hidden files in OS X’s Finder a while back and have found a much better option that I thought I’d share. Path Finder from cocoatech is an amazing app, and even with the improvements to the Finder in Leopard, Path Finder still blows it out of the water. Five [ READ MORE ]

Local Web Development With OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

With the release of Leopard last Friday, it appears the bulk of my previous tutorials are now taken care of out of the box. mod_rewrite is enabled by default, and a decent (but not robust) installation of PHP 5.2.4 is ready to go – it only needs to be uncommented in the Apache configuration file. The [ READ MORE ]