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13 Jan 2010In this advanced article, learn how to capture a packet trace; for example, you may be asked to do this when troubleshooting a network connectivity issue. These steps use Terminal and the the tcpdump command; if you are not familiar with using the Terminal, you may want to use for third-party software that can perform a packet trace instead.
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2 Nov 2009In this advanced article, learn what you can do if the Terminal command ping -f displays a packet loss when pinging a computer that is running Mac OS X v10.5.6, 10.5.7, 10.5.8, or Mac OS X v10.6, or later.
Use Terminal to see which processes are using your Internet connection
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28 Jul 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , Terminal Tips , TUAW Tips Are you tired of all of those icons from screenshots you’ve taken cluttering up space on your desktop? If you would like them in a different place when you snap them, here’s a command to change the location. Using the Terminal , enter the following command to change the location: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures This snippet will change the default location of saving the screenshot to the Pictures folder. You can also set this location to any folder or volume on your Mac, just substitute ~/Pictures in this command to whatever you want. Once you’ve run this command, you’ll need to restart the SystemUIServer (used to control certain interface elements in Mac OS X), by entering killall SystemUIServer in the Terminal.
Filed under: Accessories , Hardware , Hacks , How-tos , Terminal Tips As I’ve discovered recently, one of the unfortunate side effects of having the logic board on your computer replaced (aside from the potentially hefty bill involved if your AppleCare has lapsed) is that your Time Machine backups won’t play nicely with your Mac after the repair if you’re using a Time Capsule.
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17 Jun 2009Filed under: iPod Family , iPhone If you were up all night waiting for the new iPhone OS to arrive, you’re in good company — we were too , until we began getting Twitter reports from users in Hong Kong and Sweden that the local carriers sent out SMS alerts to their customers suggesting when they could download 3.0. Those times both align with a 10 am PT/1 pm ET go time, and that’s when we’re calling it for now; Engadget concurs .
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11 Jun 2009Filed under: Terminal Tips , Leopard Problem : Some piece (or pieces) of rogue software have cluttered up your Open With contextual menu, which you can see by right-clicking or control-clicking any document in the Finder. This problem seems to be most prevalent with virtual machines that allow you to open documents with Windows applications, but tend not to clean up after themselves. After having both Parallels and VMWare installed on my MacBook Pro, my Open With menu was a mess. Solution : Lucky for me, I noticed David Chartier’s question about this on Twitter around the same time as I was wondering what to do about it
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19 May 2009If you’ve been using Safari’s Private Browsing feature to keep your web-tracks hidden, it might come as a surprise to you that you are leaving a very visible record of the sites you’ve been visiting. This tutorial will show you how to remove those records. Using a Terminal command, anyone with access to your Mac (local or remote) can get a list of the sites that you’ve visited, even with Safari’s Private Browsing feature enabled. Safari gives you a bit of a ‘warm and fuzzy’ feeling of private browsing with their explanation of the Private Browsing feature.
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19 Feb 2009Filed under: Software , How-tos , Tips and tricks , TUAW Tips TJ Luoma recently shared the solution to an annoying problem. Specifically, he wanted to keep Backup’s icon from frantically jumping in the Dock like so many hepped-up toddlers in a bouncy castle. The Backup icon typically bounces in the Dock for a minute two before it even begins backing up any data. We know what you’re thinking, “Just go to the application’s preferences and disable the Dock animation.” The problem is that Backup has no preference pane! Fortunately, TJ found a fix
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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