Category Archives: Mac OS X

Guru tools and applets

Contents 1 AuthSight 2 GeekTool 3 OmniGraffle 4 Kismet for MAC 5 Insomnia 6 Tunnelblick AuthSight AuthSight uses your Mac’s iSight camera to take snapshots of the nut behind the keyboard whenever an invalid password is entered, either at login … Continue reading

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Hidden files in OSX (Tiger 10.4)

There are three ways to hide a file in Finder: /.hidden file starts with a . have the attribute V To view the attributes of a file use: /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo ~/Desktop/.DS_Store Possible attributes are: Each letter corresponds to a file attribute: … Continue reading

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How to add a virtual IP in MacOSX?

To add a secondary (virtual) IP address to an existing interface use the following command: sudo ifconfig lo0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias to remove it again use: sudo ifconfig lo0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 -alias simple as that 🙂

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ITunes – Tipps & Tricks

Contents 1 Playing ogg files 2 Removing orphan files 3 View the year-tag on ogg files 4 Native FLAC in iTunes/QuickTime Playing ogg files Download http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/xiph-qt/xiph-qt-0.1.8.dmg and put it to System/Library/Components, restart iTunes, have fun! http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/xiph-qt/ Removing orphan files Download … Continue reading

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