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OS X 10.4.5 Update (PPC only)

by Administrator on February 15, 2006 in Apple with No comments

Yesterday Apple released update 10.4.5 (delta) yesterday for PowerPC Macs. This update is 6.4mb and patches a number of bugs and “features” in 10.4. One that I find very interesting is the feature to “crash” while trying to delete AOL webmail. Personally I feel they should of left this feature in to deter people from using and subscribing to EVIL AOL.

Katy, I’m sorry, I was wrong when I told you it was AOL’s fault when Safari kept crashing last week while checking your webmail.

To update to 10.4.5 you must at least have OS X 10.4:
You can update using Software Update which is built into 10.4 or you can download one of the standalone installers:
From 10.4.4 to 10.4.5: Delta update installer
From another version of 10.4 to 10.4.5: Combo Installer

Here is a list of the patches and fixes:
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Transmit 3.5.1 is Released

by Administrator on February 13, 2006 in Apple with 4 Comments

Transmit 3.5.1 was released on the 3 days ago by their creators Panic. If you legally own Transmit 3 you can get a free upgrade, otherwise it’s $29. If you don’t legally own it and think you can download it and find a serial in Serial Box you are wrong. The latest version of Serial Box only covers up to version 3.2.1 of Transmit. But if you do happen to download 3.5.1 and over write your current version just download the older version again. Transmit does not keep older versions of Transmit on their site so you will have to find it somewhere else….like here. :)

Transmit 3.2.1 4mb

Serial Box

by Administrator on February 13, 2006 in Apple with No comments

Serial box is a very controversial tool to look up serial numbers for various Mac OS programs. I have been keeping up to date on this program up to the most recent version. However I have noticed that the site www.serialz.to has been going down recently. Upon downloading this months release of serial box I noticed that they have updated their program to incorporate video game cheat codes and more. Anyway here are the latest and greatest Serial Box Files. You will need to download a reader “iSerial Reader” and a database “Serial Box” to use the program. Here are the two files. If you want older versions just post a comment and let me know.

iserialreader.zip 3.4mb
serial-box-2006-02.zip 1.5mb
serial-box-2006-03.zip 1.5mb

Toast Titanium 7

by Administrator on January 5, 2006 in Apple, Computers with No comments

For those of you that have a cd/dvd burner and Mac OS this is a application you must have. I purchased a DL/DVD burner last year and the app that came with it was Toast 6 lite. While this is a decent app I felt I needed the best there was and that is Toast Titanium 7. I did a search on google and found one link that worked. Oh yeah and the new Serial Box is out for the month, use the serial you find in there.

Toast Titanium 7.dmg (57.6mb)
serial-box-2006-01.sit (12.0mb)

Dashboard is a waste of resources in OS X Tiger

by Administrator on December 30, 2005 in Apple, Computers with No comments

Although some may like Dashboard in 10.4, I never really use it and I find it a waste of resources. Here is how to turn it off.
Launch Terminal and enter these two commands
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock

To turn Dashboard back on enter these into terminal
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
killall Dock

Invisible files in OS X

by Administrator on December 30, 2005 in Apple, Computers with 3 Comments

I knew about invisible files from past experience with unix. An invisible file in unix typically starts with a “dot” and I thought this was the case for OS X, but I was wrong. While you can hide file in OS X by starting the file name with a “dot”, it is not the ONLY way. There are three ways to create a hidden file in OS X. One way is to use the “dot” prefix for a file name as previously stated. Another is to enter the file name into the “.hidden” file in the root directory (This file is not created in version 10.4 installation but it is still supported). The final way to create hidden files is to activate the “invisible bit” for the file. This can be done in a Terminal window with the help of XCode’s developer tool “SetFile”. I learned all of this after copying my fiance’s songs off of her iPod and realized they are hidden files. I used the SetFile command to turn off the invisible bit. Here is how I did it:

Launch Terminal and enter defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes (Shows all hidden files)
Open the /Developer/Tools folder in the Finder. Locate SetFile and drag its icon to the terminal window. The Directory path for SetFile (/Developer/Tools/SetFile) should appear in the Unix command line prompt.
Type: -a V . Leave a space after the upper case V.
Locate the file that you want to make invisible. Drag its icon to the Terminal window. Its path should now be added to the same command line prompt.

You should now see something like
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /Users/homedirectoryname/Desktop/MyDoc
To reverse the process you use the same command but use “V” instead of “v”

Finally relaunch Finder by entering the command killall Finder into Terminal

A more complete guide to hidden files in OS X

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