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.
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.
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.
Please note this is for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
Change the Login Screen Wallpaper Image in Snow Leopard 10.6 (also works for Leopard 10.5)
Launch the terminal and issue the following commands:
* cd /System/Library/CoreServices
* sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_org.jpg
* sudo cp /path/of/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg
Of course, change /path/of/image.jpg to the path of the image file you want to use. Basically what you’re doing here is moving to a folder, backing up the old “DefaultDesktop.jpg” by renaming it, and then copying in the new image and naming it “DefaultDesktop.jpg” instead.
Edit: Don’t pay for apps that do this for you, the method above works great and it’s totally free, If you are like me you will change your desktop wallpaper quite frequently and also you can now change the boring login window within OS X : ) enjoy!
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
It seems to be happening to me, I am being sucked in by all the social networking sites you can imagine, not only social networking either. The three logos at the top are the three killers for me, Twittering, Facebooking and Blogging! TwitterTwitter
is the most used site I use followed by a close second to my blog then coming in last is FacebookFacebook
which I seem to have gone off.
I once deleted my facebook account but found myself logging back in to reactivate and then disabling it, I just couldn’t stay away from it. It’s kind of like an addiction that is really hard to give up, not sure what it is about these three platforms but it really has me under the thumb, if Twitter told me run around the streets naked I probably would.
I wake up in a morning and within 30 minutes of opening my eyes I always check these.
Not in any particular order but always within 30 minutes these are checked and then checked probably every couple of hours after that throughout the day until I go to bed and that is just a couple of the sites I check regularly.
Throughout the day I usually check on the following sites:
Now I know the above aren’t exactly social networking sites but still, you can communicate with other users from around the globe and share information so I guess it could be classed as social networking but not the same as sites such as twitter and facebook.
The after a little longer i’ll probably go back and check them over and over again, I find myself becoming obsessed and searching the internet for different sites, reading thing that don’t even interest me, writing about things that I don’t really know about, checking out forums, reading tutorials, looking for something that I want to have (a recent example of that is setting up my own short custom URL service) http://rzy.me
It’s more like an addiction and there is nothing that I can do about it!
For all you bloggers out there this icon may/may not mean the same to you as it does to me.
WordPressWordPress (which is used to power my blogs) is starting to take up more and more of my time the more I use it. I used to go through stages on how many blog posts I would write, when I find something really interesting I blog about it, If I have a rant I blog about it. Sometimes I just don’t blog at all no matter what is or what isn’t going on.
I’ve set my self a task now that I am going to write much better posts / interesting posts and at least 1 post per day if not more. I do have quite a few websites on the go at the moment and find it difficult to know where to start / which I should start with and how far I should go there always seems to be something else that needs doing / updating / fixing.
I’m not sure if blogging would come under the social networking category either but it certainly connects you to the world.
Those are just a few of the sites / applications I use and check on a regular basis throughout the day and that’s not even mentioning the other email accounts I have or logins for other sites / forums.
Before I forget also, the latest trend that seems to be out there at the moment:
Yep thats right, Google WaveGoogle Wave, as good as it is, I also find myself checking this more and more often as I start to use the service more and more, this is even while it is in preview mode and not even gone live…meaning none of my friends are currently on, so you can only imagine how much hammer it is going to get when they finally get on and ride the wave!
I put this all down to one thing and one thing only:
The iPhone! My most valued possession, the one thing I would really feel lost without, the one thing I never leave the house with, the one thing I have a charger for in my car, my house, at work and also always carry my USB sync cable around with me at all time just incase I need to charge from my laptop / computer or even someone else’s computer.
It really is true what Apple say, there really is an app for everything! Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, Email, reddit and digg plus much more that I use!
I often ask myself what I would do with my time if I didn’t use any of these services or even the internet!
I have spent all morning looking how to stream Live TV to my iMac so when not using it as a computer I can use it as TV, I didn’t want to spend any money so my search was pretty difficult. I came across various different software such as eyeTV and MediaCentral, but unfortunately these all required either USB aerials and also for me to purchase the software.
I searched the web to try and find plugins for Front Row to integrate YouTubeYouTube, BBC iPlayer, 4oD and all of the usual catchup TV channels as an alternative to live streaming, my search was unsuccessful and just found various forums of everyone wanting to do the same.
I then came across Plex for Mac OS X, one word describes this software, PHENOMENAL!
It’s very similar to Front Row, Act’s like Front Row and is better than Front Row! This piece of software does everything you could want from a Media Server plus much more. Here is a few things that it allows me to do:
(Although not available in the UK) It does so much more, tons of streamable media over the internet you can add from the built in App StoreApp Store. The App store is an amazing place and allows you to browse lots and lots of different streaming channels and allows you to integrate them all within Plex.
Why do you need to turn your Mac into a TV when there are so many Streaming channels available, with TV choice right at your footstep, the only thing that could make this application better for my is if they add the ITV player to the App Store! I will be keeping a close eye on the App Store to see if it is added!
Certainly 12/10 if I could rate this app!
Give it a try and let me know what you think!!
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