This post will show you how to change the speed of the osx mission control animation open terminal: # very fast defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1 killall Dock # fast defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.15 killall Dock # slow defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 1 killall Dock # Read more…
This will show you how to disable the fade animation in osx lion open terminal and type in the following commands defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -int 0 defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -int 0 killall Dock the dock will restart and the launchpad animation will be gone! to get the animation Read more…
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 to reindex either your whole machine, or a specific folder. force spotlight to reindex your drive using the terminal open Read more…
Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes! How to disable reportcrash osx launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting: launchctl unload Read more…
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 already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the Read more…
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 found two ways to do it. method 1 – ssh. if you have ssh enabled on your mybook world then Read more…
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 it to ecsb_background_tile_backup.png copy the image that you want for the background of the launchpad folders to the folder and Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of mission control in osx lion and mountain lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file defaultdesktop.png rename it to defaultdesktop_backup.png copy the image that you want for mission control to the folder and name it defaultdesktop.png open terminal and Read more…
This will show you how to change the background wallpaper of the dashboard in osx lion. open finder goto /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources find the file pirelli.png rename it to pirelli_backup.png copy the image that you want for the dashboard background to the folder and name it pirelli.png find the file mini_pirelli.png rename Read more…
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight search to disable spotlight search suggestions and free up some resources on your machine. There are lots of scenarios where Read more…
This post will show you a few of the cool useful linux and osx commandline tools that I use every day. They are mostly available for osx, but some require fink or brew to install on a mac. # ssh available by default on osx and linux. lets you log Read more…
This will show you how to use ssh with keys for authentication. this has a couple of advantages over using passwords: 1) you can enable key only logins. 2) you dont need to type [or remember] passwords You will need two machines (though you probably know this already): remotehost.com – Read more…
This will show you how to turn a downloaded iso file into a bootable usb drive using mac osx there are two methods. the first is the better way: go to unetbootin.sourceforge.net download it and follow the instructions you will now be done. the following method is the old way Read more…
I dont use the osx widget dashboard. This post will show you how to disable dashboard osx. I had to look for a way to turn it off to save some resources and to stop the default widgets showing in my virtual desktop spaces while I was looking for another Read more…
Here are some tips to make your mac boot faster: Rotate your logs open terminal > type: sudo periodic daily weekly monthly this command runs the log rotate scripts, etc Repair disk permissions applications > utilities > disk utility > repair permissions this command repairs disk permissions, this will fix Read more…