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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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Password Assistant | codepoetry - For some time I've thought it would be nice to be able to invoke the Password Assistant from the OSX Accounts preference pane on its own, since it is very nice to generate pronounceable passwords. Alas, it seems I was not the only one, someone did it alre (tags: cocoa cool hack macosx password security tools )
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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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tms [fernLightning] - Very cool command-line utility to explore Time Machine backups (tags: leopard macosx timemachine tools )
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Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively - Nice pointer to a new version of GrandPerspective that properly displays usage in a Time Machine backup disk (tags: macosx timemachine tips tools )
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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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Bwana - I discovered this little gem of a utility today: essentially a handler for the "man:" url type, which pretty-formats the corresponding manual page and opens it in your web browser. Useful together with QuickSilver, you can for example type "man:ls", selec (tags: free macosx man opensource software tools unix )
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