Category Archives: OSX

Items that directly relate to Apple’s 10th operating system.

How-to Modify the Default User Settings in OSX

After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user accounts,

Enable “path view” on top of Finder window

I saw this at The Unofficial Apple Weblog and thought it was nice because I hate that you can’t see what folder you are in by default. Open a terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES And you have your location at the top of the window. I don’t even have a Apple

Why the Mac Mini sucks for MythTV/PVR

I bought the mac mini for a few reasons: 1. It is very small and very quiet 2. It looks good with my AV equipment 3. There are a lot of accessories that match the looks of the mini 4. It came with good enough specs for video playback and recording The main problem I

Create user template in OSX

After my last post I realized I have never explained (or documented for myself) how to create a user template in OSX. The best how-to I found was on Jim Epler’s Blog which I found via google. Here are his steps slightly modified 1. Tweak your default account including setting dock, clearing cache, recent items,

OSX 10.5 keychain and user templates

We decided to have our Apple computers joined to our Active Directory server so we have a little more control and our users have a little more continuity and features when using different machines. We also finally figured out how to set up a user template similar to Windows default user profile. A problem we

How to restore a Apple computer to factory defaults

I occasionally need to set up a Apple computer to act like it just came from the factory to give to a new person or to sell it. There are 2 ways I found to do this. The first is with the original install disk that came with your computer. But honestly who still has

Funny how that works.

I am not really trying to mix things up too much but I do find it very interesting that the weeks prior to MacWorld everyone was saying how much they would love to see a Mac Tablet and how great it would be to finally catch up with what the PC world has, without paying

A bunch of new tools/tweaks

I don’t really like filling up my website with posts about every tool I find. But every once and a while my RSS feeds fills up with “pinned” items for me to remember and check out when I get time. Well, it has filled up again and I am going to throw a bunch of

Mac OSX

I had a realization today.  I really like osx.  I think the operating system as a whole is just pretty good.  I am not used to it and it would take me a good long time to learn all of the shortcut keys that are available, but on a whole I like it. The downside