OS X: 10.7 Post-Upgrade checklist
I just upgraded to OS X Lion and put together a post-upgrade checklist with more or less important things I had to take care of.
OS X: set Front Row to show preferably on secondary Screen
This is the best solution I found in the world wide web to overcome the missing feature, to use Front Row on a secondary display screen.
OS X: Airport lässt sich nicht deaktivieren
Heute hatte ich ein seltsames Problem mit AirPort auf meinem Mac. Und zwar konnte ich AirPort nicht mehr über das Menüelement deaktivieren. Es passierte einfach gar nichts, wenn der Befehl ausgewählt wurde. Nach kurzer Suche fand ich den Grund in… Continue reading » “
OS X: Airport lässt sich nicht deaktivieren
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Mysterious “You have new mail” in OS X Terminal
Resolve the mystery about the strange notice “You have new mail” in your OS X Terminal window.
OS X: Geek Alarm Clock
Find out what a Geek’s way is to set an audio-visual Alarm Clock under OS X
Safari: How-to add a “Tweet this”-shortcut
How-to add a “Tweet this”-shortcut to Safari, in order to tweet the webpage you are currently browsing.
OS X: Connect to the MAMP MySQL Server via Terminal
When you have installed MAMP (Mac Apache, MySQL, PHP) on your Mac, you may want to connect to it’s MySQL Server using the OS X Terminal.app. I describe here, how this can be achieved.
OS X: Inhalte zweier Ordner zusammenführen (aka “merge”)
Der OS X Finder basiert rein auf Copy-, Cut- & Paste (Kopieren, Ausschneiden, Einfügen). Dennoch gibt es eine bequeme Variante, einen Ordner mit seiner gesamten Struktur (Unterordner & Dateien) zu “mergen” – und zwar über das Terminal.app mit dem Befehl “rsync”.
OS X: org.apache.httpd (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
I am working on Mac OS 10.5.6 Leopard. Today I recognized, that every 10 seconds Apache forced the following error messages to appear in my console.log: org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock:… Continue reading » “OS X: org.apache.httpd (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80”
Cleanup Citrix .ica launch files under Mac OS X
When using the Citrix ICA Client on Mac OS X, you are dealing with getting a lot of so called “launch files” for the ICA Client application. I got bugged with all those files and cleaning them up manually from… Continue reading » “Cleanup Citrix .ica launch files under Mac OS X”