If you’ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful… Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. Â Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown […]
Apple includes as part of the Printer Libraries, a small conversion utility. Â I presume it is used to help convert certain formats to either PDF or Postscript internally… Â But here’s some fun we can have with it. For example, let’s say we have a file called “my.html”, but using this command line: /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f my.html […]
“[…] Very softly, at seemingly random intervals, I hear a noise like a gunshot or a bomb/cannon going off. […]” There are a few reasons you might hear something like that… First, check in System Preferences, under Sound, and see what Alert Sound you have defined. Second, check iChat’s own Sound Effects.  Especially the “Buddy becomes […]
Folks, Version 1.50C 1.50E is now available for the Indigo Remote Log Viewer…. This fixes a small bug that was added when I added CSS support… Â The Filter by Type option was not working correctly, and is now functional…. [download id=”7627″] In addition to the Version C changes above, the E version includes: Support for […]
Over at Macintouch, a user has contributed an Applescript that will display when the amount of freespace on the drive, drops below a preset limit. tell application ‘Finder’ — sets up variables set theSize to capacity of startup disk — total size of disk set freeSpace to free space of startup disk — amount of […]
Lifehacker reader Kurt emailed in a fantastic little kitchen setup. Kurt had an iMac G5 on hand, and a great idea for turning a desk in his kitchen into a workspace. The design is extremely simple thanks to the all-in-one design of the iMac. (View the rest of the article at The Upside Down Mac […]
VMware: Team Fusion: A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7: “May 13, 2009 A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple’s Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, […]
A quick and easy method to change the primary language under Mac OS X is to open a terminal window, and run is command… sudo “/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser” Select your language, close the language chooser and restart your system to invoke the changes. Â There have been a few reports of the language settings being damaged […]