Mac OS X, Enabling FireWireTarget Disk Mode
One of the premier forms of Mac troubleshooting is to enable FireWire Target Disk mode on the afflicted Mac system and hook it up to another Mac system via FireWire. This results in the hard drive of…
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Little Snitch, Keeping Tabs On What’s Going On In The Background
Little Snitch, from Objective Development, has been around for some time now, and recently received an update to be Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger compatible. Unlike traditional firewalls Little Snitch allows you to filter connections based…
Mac OS X Tiger, Desktop Expose’ Hide n Seek
Ever since I installed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, I’ve noticed that I’ve had to play hide n seek with my Desktop expose’. The normal function of Desktop expose’ is to move everything else out of…
Mac OS X Tiger, Deleting Locked Files Fast
Its time to delete files in the trash but you suddenly get a warning window popping up midway, displaying a message that some or all of the files currently in your trash are ‘locked’ (see:…
MacJanitor, Log File Housekeeping
Mac OS X generates quite a substantial pool of log files during its operation life. Typical of any UNIX-based operating system. These log files are used by Mac technicians to isolate errors or quirks in…
World’s Longest Startup Sound
Though, we don’t normally feature comedic sites or pages here, we came across this one — the world’s longest startup sound. Guaranteed to leave some geeks in stitches. Some of the guys are now looking into…
Mac OS X Tiger, Missing Stuffit Expander On Clean Install
You buy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you install it into your Mac and everything’s fine in your world. However, in previous incarnations of Mac OS 9 and OS X, Allume Systems’ Stuffit Expander shipped…
Mac OS X, Digital Video Camera And Bluetooth Cell Phone Compatibility
We’ve been asked on numerous occassions how to check whether a digital camera will work with Mac OS X and iMovie. Here are some official reference pages to check out: Apple’s Mac OS X Camera…
Mac OS X Games Freeware Games At MacGamesAndMore.com
In our quest to seek out an updated version of Lode Runner (see Diagram 1.0) that runs as a native Cocoa application in Mac OS X, we stumbled upon this site that’s existence is dedicated…
Activity Monitor, Monitoring Your Mac And Force Quitting Applications
New switchers to Mac from PC might feel a little at a loss without the need to hit the CTRL + ALT + DEL keys every so often but what if you want to monitor…