Posts Tagged ‘Mac OS X’

My Cubicle Desktop March 26th, 2009

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 [...]

How Can I Delete Files From My Trash Older Than x Months

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 [...]

Using The Blackberry Connection (Tethering) With Mac

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 [...]