A website tipped me off to a Terminal command that lets OS X users (the geekier ones) view UNIX “man” pages* as PDFs. However, since the command is long, it would be hard to remember and difficult to type. I wanted to make an alias (a custom UNIX command) that would be shorter, but Bash …
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Apple’s OS X Leopard (version 10.5) is a great operating system, clearly their best yet. Nevertheless, there are ways to make it even better. This is my short collection of favorite tips. In this collection, I am focusing on general usability—things that enhance Finder and your general workflow. I’ve added a few general purpose apps …
We had a problem at work in which a shared FireWire drive would unmount when logging out of a user account. This is unfortunately the default behavior under OS X, and there is no easy preference to turn it off. This default behavior is intended to prevent inexperienced users from unplugging a device after they …
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