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Send websites and docs to iBooks

With iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4, the iBooks 1.1 app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can store and view PDF files, together with EPUB files. If you want to quickly add a document or a web page to your Books...

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Advanced readline settings for bash in Terminal – Mac OS X Hints

The bash shell used in the Terminal application can be tweaked a little for better interactive experience, by saving the following lines as .intputrc in your home directory: via Advanced readline...

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How to customize a Magic Trackpad

The BetterTouchTool utility allows you to define your own gestures and actions. In addition to its not-yet-final support for the Magic Trackpad, BetterTouchTool works with many third-party trackpads...

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10.7: Enable the FTP server

Apple seemingly dropped the FTP Server support in Mac OX Lion. Only the GUI has been removed and the FTP Server can be activated. You can still enable it with the command line. To start it type the...

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10.7: Enable AirDrop on Macs without supported wireless hardware – Mac OS X...

AirDrop is a handy way to share files between Macs. Unfortunately, it is only supported on newer models which have the hardware necessary to support a certain type of point-to-point WiFi connection....

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10.7: Completely disable Resume – Mac OS X Hints

Disable Saved Application States OS X Lion offers a checkbox to disable saved application states. However, many applications do not seem to care about that checkbox (e.g. Terminal). The easiest way to...

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Dan Rodneys List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes

Mac Keyboard ShortcutsI like to figure out the fastest way to do things. I hope these keystrokes help you to become the power user that lies within. They should work on most versions of Mac OS 10.7...

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Fix for postfix in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

After installing OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, a few things in our web development environment stopped working (namely Apache with multiple vhosts, BIND/wildcard DNS, Phusion Passenger and the rmagick2 gem,...

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Rename the blog?

Rightfully (moving forward) I should rename this to OS X Things and remove the Mac. Of course almost all of the posts really do refer to “Mac OS X Things”, so I should leave it alone. There is a post...

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Updating Software

One thing about testing tools – you have to do regular software updates and test the updated software. This is one of those days. Testing MarsEdit post.

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