How to force spotlight to reindex your drive
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight…
Use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person or author
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword 'author' author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents…
How to change the osx lion login wallpaper
This will show you how to change the login screen wallpaper background image in osx lion. the file you need to change is called /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/ NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png simply rename the image…
Change finders folder view settings with a keyboard shortcut
This one is pretty cool. you can change finders folder view settings by using keyboard shortcuts. cmd+1 = icon view cmd+2 = list view cmd+3 = column view cmd+4 =…
Automount network drive on startup osx mac
Automount network drive on startup osx. This will show you how to automount a network drive when you login to osx lion. This method will persist through a reboot, so…
How to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that's…
Force itunes to re-scan your library
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them…
Wd mybook world – delete time machine backup
I wanted to delete my old time machine backup from my western digital mybook world i didnt need it for anything, as I have a backup of it :D i…
Change launchpad folder background wallpaper osx lion / mountanin lion
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of the folders in launchpad in osx lion and mountain lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file ecsb_background_tile.png rename…