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
AppleScript: Move Files from specific Source- to Target-Folder
I wanted to have an AppleScript application, that takes all files from a specific Source-Folder and moves them to a user defined Target-Folder.
Urban Terror 4 Server configurations
I use to play Urban Terror from time to time with some friends, usually over the LAN when we meet somewhere. But we often have had some issues that stuff like Voting or the map-cycle did not work or meet our expectations, because of a wrong or no configuration of the server. Therefore I looked a bit into how to configure an UrT4 Server – and I will publish some of the main “Good-to-knows” here.
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.
Pages ’09 Hacks: Unnumbered items in the Table of Contents
Apple’s Pages ’09 lacks some features that you might deal with when using it extensively. I am going to document in a short blog-post series a few of such missing features and the hacks I used to get around them. In this post, I’ll document how you can mix numbered and unnumbered list items inside the TOC of a Pages document.
Pages ’09 Hacks: Insert pages at landscape format
Apple’s Pages ’09 lacks some features that you might deal with when using it extensivly. I am going to document in a short blog-post series a few of such missing features and the hacks I used to get around them. In this post, I’ll write about how to “Insert pages at landscape format” into Pages documents.
Pages ’09 Hacks: The mess with sub-indexes
Apple’s Pages ’09 lacks some features that you might deal with when using it extensivly. I am going to document in a short blog-post series a few of such missing features and the hacks I used to get around them. In this post, I’ll write about “The mess with numeration of sub-indexes and headings”.
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”.
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”