#osx (234 links)
- osx - QuickLook blanks when displaying some images - Ask Different apple.stackexchange.com
- The Yosemite tips nobody knows yet! macworld.co.uk
- Faster Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Upgrades jimlindley.com
<blockquote>If you’ve got anything in /usr/local Your Yosemite upgrade may take many hours.</blockquote>
- jimbojsb/launchrocket · GitHub github.com
<blockquote>A Mac PrefPane to manage all your Homebrew-installed services</blockquote>
- Using Vagrant (Mac, Linux) - Docker Documentation docs.docker.io
- Command line one-liners | Arturo Herrero arturoherrero.com
- Quick Look plugins github.com
List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers, installed with Homebrew Cask.
- Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles net.tutsplus.com
- fruitjuiceapp.com fruitjuiceapp.com
<blockquote>Calculates the optimal minimum time you should be running on battery power each day based on the way you actually use your laptop.</blockquote>
For the battery-obsessed.
<blockquote>Being an open source advocate who uses Apple products engenders the same ethical unease I felt as a vegetarian before going fully vegan: committing only partway because, dammit, I wanted cheese on my veggie burger.</blockquote>
But Linux on the desktop (or laptop, rather) still sucks.
- blueutil » Command-Line Control of Bluetooth on the Mac frederikseiffert.de
<blockquote>A command-line utility to control Bluetooth on Mac OS X.</blockquote>
- gk :: Firefoxes [notepad] gkoberger.net
<blockquote>bash script to install major Firefox versions on Mac OS X</blockquote>
Turn Disk Utility's Debug menu on, mount the recovery partition, run firmware password tool from the recovery image. Useful when display is fried, sorting via VNC.
Tea killed screen.
- rEFIt - An EFI Boot Menu and Toolkit refit.sourceforge.net
<blockquote>A boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.</blockquote>
- SmallDVD | Small Software smallsoftware.co.uk
Burning random stuff for parents.
<blockquote>SmallDVD is a simple DVD authoring utility for MacOSX that will take video files and create a DVD image from them that can be burnt using Disk Utility.</blockquote>
- The Designer's Guide to the OSX Command Prompt wiseheartdesign.com
Concise intro.
- Interesting new UNIX commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion « Ask Different Blog apple.blogoverflow.com
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review | Ars Technica arstechnica.com
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion robots.thoughtbot.com
- 0xFE - 11111110b - 0376 - 254 - b9#9: Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline 0xfe.blogspot.co.uk
The commandline version of Spotlight is mdfind. Simply provide your search query as a parameter and let it run.
- Chrome team to Leopard users: no Chrome 22 for you! arstechnica.com
The Chrome team wrote on Monday that Chrome will soon drop support for OS X 10.5 and that future versions will only be available for Snow Leopard (10.6) or higher on the Mac. The version of Chrome that will do this will be Chrome 2,291 22 (more specifically, version 22.0.1201.0), which has just been seeded into the dev channel for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame users.
- BetterZip 2 - The Next Generation of Archiving macitbetter.com
Quick Look plugin for compressed archives.
- Minimus: The OS X JavaScript and CSS Minifier webmaster-source.com
- Superior Alternatives to Crappy OS X Software m.lifehacker.com
- notes on "novimber wrap up" notes.torrez.org
MacVim always felt like a half-step toward OS X (requiring the Janus distribution and a fork with a file browser to fill in the holes) where Vico is solidly an OS X app.
- mschrag/speedlimit - GitHub github.com
SpeedLimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds — 768k DSL, Edge, 3G, and Dialup.
- MAMP Forum • View topic - Slow after Lion upgrade forum.mamp.info
*.local is the Bonjour search domain. So if you set up devsite.local and try to visit it, the OS is looking for another machine assigned to that name. Lion must be implementing this differently than Snow Leopard did, resulting in slow page loads while the OS determines where to look for a response.
- The One Rule randsinrepose.com
- Egg Freckles | Burning A Lion Boot Disc eggfreckles.net
A planeload of DVDs... bandwidth... etc etc
- Why are you not using a SSD yet? » Debuggable Ltd debuggable.com
mattb: developers, why are you not using a SSD yet? http://bit.ly/hvd1j4 - I endorse this message.