A pair of handy terminal commands for converting Apple .plist preference files from binary to XML format [allowing for easy editing with a text editor] and then back to binary again, afterwards.

0 893 posted 11 years ago by stiobhart

Bash Delete All .pyc Files in Directory on OSX

0 592 posted 11 years ago by tclancy

Bash List the keyboard shortcuts for your *nix\'s builtin functions

See also http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bindable-Readline-Commands for the standard bindings and more detailed explanation of what they do.

0 554 posted 11 years ago by cczona

Other Studentenwerk Potsdam: Wohnheim-WLAN VPN Verbindung herstellen (OSX)

getestet mit osx lion

0 488 posted 11 years ago by abstraktor

Bash Compressing folders in Terminal, excluding .DS_Store files

If you need to zip a directory named folderName and ignore all .DS_Store files, then do the following:

0 514 posted 11 years ago by beneberle

Bash Enable Remote access / Screen Sharing through ssh in OSX

0 527 posted 11 years ago by ypmits

Other Terminal: change user

Open Terminal and type the following:

0 442 posted 11 years ago by redconservatory

Objective C Quickest Way to Shell - Use system() instead of NSTask

Cocoa provides NSTask to run subprocesses. It can be used to run shell scripts, but all this manual pipe and file handling is a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, for a simple script, we can use the trusty old system and redirect its result to a file.

0 566 posted 11 years ago by zingo

Objective C Checking If You App Has Been Run Before

Do you need you app to do something when it is first run on a certain computer? Do you need to know if it has been run before? Enter the following code into your Application Delegate. This code creates a BOOL that is created when the app is run. T...

0 552 posted 11 years ago by zingo

Bash Quiet SSH tunnel in OS X

0 524 posted 11 years ago by xz

Bash Get a list of unique dtrace providers

Get a list of providers for DTrace that OSX supports. (DTrace is a probe/profiling tool created by Sun that came with Mac OS X starting with Leopard.)

0 601 posted 11 years ago by zingo

AppleScript Apple Mac OSX Plist for better Folder Actions with launchd, launch agents, launchctl

Stolen from stetho -- All thanks to him -- Now, about your folder actionsâ€¦ http://bit.ly/fW9ExM

0 572 posted 12 years ago by brandonjp

Bash fix Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib (LoadError)

0 490 posted 12 years ago by timvdeijnden

Ruby OSX service to shorten URLs

Place script into Automator (select "Run Shell Script" choose /usr/bin/ruby as the shell). You'll need to create a bit.ly account which will give you your API key for authentication.

0 407 posted 12 years ago by insanedreamer

Bash Run Google Chrome with additional arguments settings under OSX

If you want to run Google Chrome with additional program arguments under OSX, one way, is to use "open" and its --args argument. Use it to start Chrome with the --allow-file-access-from-files setting (or any other). Create a link to it to run i...

0 554 posted 12 years ago by nonlinearsound

Bash Desktop Supersort

0 436 posted 12 years ago by austinhappel

Bash iTunes hidden settings - terminal tweaks

Big ups to Tom Gidden for this one. If you\'re not all that happy about some of the changes in iTunes 10, or if you\'d rather look through your own library instead of the itunes store, give these a try.

0 465 posted 12 years ago by beneberle

Bash OSX Server - Group EMail Enabler v0.2

If you have any contributions, please comment here.

0 464 posted 12 years ago by uptimejeff

Bash How to Build and Install GNU wget on Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard

**Download**\r\n\r\n1. Download the latest source code from the [GNU wget website](http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ \"GNU wget website\"). You can download the latest version from [this link](http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz \"Latest w...

0 701 posted 12 years ago by armanx

Bash Fix textmate bundles after snow leopard upgrade

0 499 posted 12 years ago by stayce

Other Manually Purge Flash Cache

0 491 posted 12 years ago by traeregan

Python changing default version when updating Python on Mac

0 503 posted 12 years ago by magicrebirth

Objective C Drawing Scaled Rectangles with NSDrawNinePartImage

Drawing scaled rectangles of arbitrary width and height that keeps the corner and sides properly scaled while growing the center.

1 552 posted 12 years ago by zingo

Python Start a quick webserver from any directory:

0 450 posted 12 years ago by magicrebirth