One thing I deeply missed when I started using a mac as my main system was the auto-capitliazation of the letter “i”. When I was typing an email, or document it was almost second nature to just type “i” because I knew that Word would have me covered and auto-capitlize that puppy into “I”. I [...]
Posted on May 21, 2009, 10:58 pm, by russds, under
Technology.
Using geek tool to display the calendar and system status information. Changed the folder icons of a ‘Tickler’ folder and ‘temp’ folder, also the appearance of the Hard drive. In the Menu bar I’ve got:
Quicksilver
Adium
Coffee
Syngergy
MenuMeters
Time Machine
Volume
Spaces
Wifi
Date/time
Battery
Spotlight
Posted on March 26, 2009, 3:54 pm, by russds, under
The Office.
Some of the highlights:
Left 2 windows are a windows XP machine
Middle computer is MacBook Pro, my main machine. I control the windows XP machine from this using Synergy. (a Great! tool)
Right most monitor is just a spare connected to the laptop to give me some more monitor real estate.
I often use the windows computer for [...]
Posted on January 13, 2009, 3:37 pm, by russds, under
Technology.
Just want to see what will be deleted?:
find /Users/username/.Trash/* -mtime +730 -print
Actually delete the files (This can’t be undone):
find /Users/username/.Trash/* -mtime +730 -exec rm -f {} \;
Keep in mind, you must substitute ’username’ with your actual username.
find/Users/username/.Trash/* finds all the files in the given directory
-mtime +730 finds files modified greater than 730 days ago.
-print prints the files [...]
Posted on November 13, 2008, 2:39 pm, by russds, under
Technology.
Blackberry 8703e
Here’s the Steps:
Start Parallels/VMWare, plug the Blackberry into the Mac, the guest OS should recognize the device, click on it in the Parallels/VMWare options, so that the guest OS takes control of the device.
Start the Sprint Blackberry connection software and establish a connection, so the Windows now has internet access
On the Mac Click the AirPort [...]