the great big useful snippets of Mac/PC IT help thread...

Meska

Hmmm, not sure if a thread like this exists here at FL... but yeah, find some useful trick, snippet or hack to do in OS X or Windoze, please share

Power On Self Test Beep Definition <--- yo this is important!</a>

flak

Hey, get a load of this.

It's not useful in the least, but I didn't know where else to put it. Man oh man, I have no words for this.

flak

Also, to contribute to the thread, this site is the best place for protips: Mac OS X Hints

Way too many to link to, but one of my favorites is this one:

10.5: Disable the 'use this disk?' Time Machine dialog

Meska

Perfect Flak

Biff

There's all kinds of tech crap spread all over hell and gone here.

Meska

Extending Microsoft SBS 2003 Store Limit

Meska

Missing plugins for CS4 and earlier

flak

Some great command line snippets

Meska

17 handy Applescripts

blueshead

Running a copy of XP for bootcamp or Parallels and have (cough) trouble updating, etc. Get what you need here.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/

Meska

How to identify your iMac

Meska

Slow Samba Read in Mac OS X

*not tested

Biff

I believe that's been fixed under 10.5, mesk.

Meska

Coolio. Right that's Pre-Leopard tip then !

flak

Mirror Disks After Install

Technically, the article was written with OS disks in mind, but I just successfully used the instructions to mirror two non-system disks without having to erase them first.

Big fan of the rest of the site, too. Some great advice on there.

Meska

Wifi Hardware compatible with desktop Mac running OS X

(thanks Biff)

mick

clickit for bigger

mick

dunno about you, but i use iTunes, and i do rate the music.

i snagged this from the Graphic Mac:

To enable the half-star feature in iTunes, fire-up the Terminal application and paste the following text, then hit return:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

You can now launch iTunes and start rating. To assign a half star rating, simply click in the tiny space between stars.

works great.

Meska

Kerplow!

Serial number and barcode thingy for Apple kit

Meska

Software Delivery

Thanks Peak