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Mac OS X Shortcut: Quick Hide Dock
If you are like me and you are always changing your desktop, moving icons around or just want a different look for the time you are on the computer then this may be handy for you.
This shortcut command will allow you to quickly hide/show the Mac OS X dock.
⌘-option-d
Pressing it once will hide it, pressing it for a second time will show the dock again.
It doesn’t make it go away permanently, this command only activated / disabled quick hide dock.
Customise How The Mac OS X Dock Looks
To change the appearance of your Dock just follow these very simple instructions.
Find a design you like, http://leoparddocks.net has some real beauties 
Then just follow these instructions
1. Click the ‘Download’ button above the image of the dock you want
2. Open the folder System/Library/CoreServices/
3. Control-/right-click on Dock.app and choose “Show Package Contents”
4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/
5. Make a backup of all of the “scurve” .PNG files and then get rid of them from that folder (authentication may be required)
6. Copy the contents of the downloaded file into this folder.
- Open up Terminal.app and type “killall Dock” (without quotes)
This is how mine looks at the moment, I have decided to go for old school matrix feel on my macbook : ) suits me down to the ground.
Easily install Aircrack Mac OS X
If you are looking to install Aircrack on your Mac OS X installation just follow these simple instructions!
So simple and it actually works!
You will need Xcode installed to install this way, there will be no need for gmake or sqlite.
In a terminal windows run:
svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ng
You will notice lots of files downloading, now we need to edit the common.mak file.
Browse to aircrack-ng folder by using the following command
cd aircrack-ng
Open up the file (I will be using nano to do this)
sudo nano common.mak
Enter your password to edit the file.
Look for this line:
CC = $(TOOL_PREFIX)gcc
and replace with:
CC = $(TOOL_PREFIX)gcc-4.0
Then find this line:
CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -Wno-strict-aliasing
and replace with:
CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -Wno-strict-aliasing -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk
Press ctrl o to write out the file, and then ctrl x to return back to terminal
Now type: The first line may error if you are already in the folder
cd aircrack-ng
make
sudo make install
All files should have been placed in /usr/local/bin/ directory
Change the SSH Listening Port Leopard 10.5
If you need to change the firewall port on SSHD for MacOSX Leopard 10.5
Follow the instructions below
Open Terminal and as edit the file /etc/services (as root)
sudo pico /etc/services
Scroll right down to the bottom and add the line
secret-ssh portnumber/tcp # secret SSH port
portnumber being your desired port number, when this has been added press ctrl & o and write the file out and then ctrl & x to exit
Now you will need to edit the file /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
sudo pico /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
Now locate the following
<key>SockServiceName <key>
<string>ssh</string>
and replace with this
<key>SockServiceName</key>
<string>secret-ssh</string>
Reboot & you should be able to connect via SSH using your desired port.
This has worked 100% fine for me let me know if you have any trouble
MacOSX turn on SSH
This is a little tutorial on how to turn SSH on in Leopard MacOSX
First open System Preferences
Click on the “Sharing tab”
Down the left hand side of that windows you should have a list of services, on mine non of them were ticked, but the one for SSH is “Remote Login” put a tick in the box ad then you should see this:
Then you can configure the users who you want to be able to have access…
Please note SSH is not avaliable when your computer is set to go to sleep mode, so you will need to disable this.
New Toy
After the whole phase of the Leopard running on my Dell GX620 i decided to go official…I have now moved away from Windows (well kinda i still have one XP Machine) but that is only because my Netgear Pig isnt compatiable with my new iMac. I decided to do it right and went for the dogs bollox one and got the 24″ Screen, bluetooth, wireless, bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, bluetooth remote control for iTunes.Bit of a change a 24″ screen compared to what i am used to 17″Just been installing all my apps onto it, and figuring out which are the best ones to use and all that shite blah blah.