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macosxhints.com - 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes - Great tip on how to reassociate a Time Machine backup with a new machine, so that it continues backing up on the same time line, without creating a new backup set. TM backups are keyed by the machine's Ethernet MAC address, so it needs to be changed for i (tags: backup hack howto leopard macosx timemachine tips )
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Sending SMS through the Cablecom (hispeed.ch) web interface (howto)

June 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I wanted to be able to send SMS from the command line to my phone automatically (e.g. to get notified of certain emails). I use Cablecom, which offer the service of sending SMS through a web interface to subscribers. I found smssend (a seemingly dead package, but still available in some distributions), which has a [...]

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How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word - This really makes Word less painful to use. (tags: emacs howto keyboard macosx tips word )
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Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader - Very handy guide to Google Reader shortcuts. (tags: googlereader howto rss tips )
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Removing all extended attributes from a directory tree

May 7th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Here’s a simple one-liner I came up with to remove all HFS+ extended attributes on all files and directories below the current one in Mac OS X. Useful before creating a tar file that will be shared with non-Mac users (tar in OSX will create additional “resource” files to store extended attributes, which when untared [...]

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Tales from the Loonybin - Demystifying Mail.app Plugins – A Tutorial - Tutorial on how to write plugins for Mail.app on OSX. Maybe useful some day… (tags: cocoa howto macosx mail.app plugins programming tutorial )
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Grepping plist files

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m trying to track down why some of my attachments keep being downloaded to ~/Library/Mail Downloads/ even after I have set my Downloads directory in Mail.app to ~/Downloads/. I haven’t found it yet, but in the process I wrote a quick script for searching for a regular expression in .plist files, converting them to XML [...]

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OpenSim on OSX… or: your own secondlife grid in 8 easy steps

January 31st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Following DrScofield’s instructions for setting up OpenSim , I thought I’d give it a try on my OSX laptop. The process is not quite as straightforward, but it works. Here’s what I did:

Download and install the Mono package for OSX from the Mono downloads page. If you don’t have subversion, install it. [...]

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