Archive for the ‘General’ Category

1. Launching background processes at startup

   Posted on March 9th, 2010 by AVD

   The preferred way of launching background processes in Mac OS X means using launchd by creating LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents which are simple plist (Property List) files which instruct launchd how to start or stop these processes. The important difference in the two is that LaunchDaemons are intended for processes which should remain running even with no users logged into the system.

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2. Make the hidden applications transparent

   Posted on February 28th, 2010 by AVD

   

   Open Terminal application and execute following command (Replace YES with NO to revert to original look):
   
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES

   Requires the Dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type “killall Dock” and press enter.

3. Flattening the Dock

   Posted on February 28th, 2010 by AVD

   

   Open Terminal application and execute following command (Replace YES with NO to revert to original look):
   
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

   Requires the Dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type “killall Dock” and press enter.

4. Show fullpath at Finder’s title

   Posted on February 24th, 2010 by AVD

   

   Open Terminal application and execute following command (Replace YES with NO to revert to original title):
   
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

   Requires the finder to be relaunched to take effect, so type “killall Finder” and press enter.

5. Show hidden files in Finder

   Posted on February 24th, 2010 by AVD

   

   Open Terminal application and execute following command (Replace TRUE with FALSE to hide hidden files again):
   
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

   Requires the Finder to be relaunched to take effect, so type “killall Finder” and press enter.

6. Copy Finder’s selection paths to the clipboard

   Posted on February 19th, 2010 by AVD

   After surfing the Google I’ve stopped at simple AppleScript summarized from several solutions.
   To use it follow original instruction found at Macworld » Mac » Software » Utilities » Copy paths from Finder selections.

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7. Portfolio

   Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by outdev.ru

   After all I’ve catologized little bit of my own and paticipated works and portfolio was created… -> link

   The only rest have to be made 🙂

8. Blog startup

   Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by outdev.ru

   outdev.ru blog was successfully created… awaiting for interesting events and new posts…