In testing of leopard or in restoring a system, the ability to change the boot disk or device is essential. Here are the steps required to change the startup disk in OS X.
OS X 10.5 allows the user to view folders placed in the dock in two very beautiful and helpful ways — Fan or Grid. Apple refers to this new feature as Stacks. Here is how to use this new aspect of Leopard.
Many MacBooks have the ability to burn fat dual layer DVDs. Before you go buying expensive dual layer media, here is how to see if your laptop is dual layer capable.
The Symfony framework is an amazing project which brings many best practices to the hands of mortal coders. It’s also a dauntingly vast system with many subdirectories and classes. While trekking your way up the learning curve, you may run into hurdles which seem daunting. One possible gotcha involves adding file uploading to an existing Symfony form.
When troubleshooting a complex web application (or a simple one), there are times that sending a message to a log file will help. Two command syntaxes are required depending on if you are in an action or a template. When using the development environment of an application in Symfony, the log message will show up in the development toolbar which will make your life even easier.
The Automatic Save function in Lotus Symphony can be a real lifesaver if disaster strikes and you lose the document you were working on. Once enabled, the IBM productivity tools save information every 10 minutes, but you can change this interval to be more or less frequent.
ScribeFire is the new name for the old performancing blog posting extension. Once installed it works very well; however, by default it posts “Powered by ScribeFire” at the end of every post. Very painful. Here is how to turn this off.
Lotus Symphony is IBM’s variant of the popular OpenOffice for use on Windows and Linux systems. You can set the file type associations to allow Lotus Symphony to open SmartSuite and/or Microsoft Office files. It will also use these associations when creating new documents (instead of odt, ott, odp, etc.)
When you run a command from a UNIX or UNIX-like shell, the shell looks for the executable file using the directories listed in your PATH variable as a map. For convenience, adding directories to this environment variable means you don’t have to go hunting for a file each time you run it. Following these directions will allow you to add a directory to the search PATH.
Add-Ons and ActiveX plugins can really expand IE7’s abilities. However, these added features are more likely to contain bugs and cause the browser to crash. Here is how to remove or disable these once they are installed.
In OS X, hidden files (those starting with a period like .profile or .bashrc) can be a challenge to edit because they are, well, hidden and don’t show up in Finder windows. While there are tricks to make hidden files visible in Finder windows, I prefer to keep my hidden files hidden. I also prefer to edit them using vi, but I know that many folks are likely to think ‘six’ instead of ‘editor’ when presented with vi. What follows is a simple way to edit a hidden file using TextEdit without making any changes to the system.
Recently on google’s webmaster blog, google announced that web site owners and bloggers can directly improve and change the short summary that is displayed for each web result. By improving this summary (aka snippet), you will increase your chances that users will click your link from google and visit your site.
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