Category Archives: How To

List iTunes Apps by Purchaser

I finally developed a way to list all your iTune applications by Purchaser, and even better, I can do it from the command line. Continue reading

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Turning Web Share Back On in Mountain Lion

Apple removed Web Share from Mountain Lion. Next they’ll be removing the Start button… oh, wait… that’s someone else. Here’s how to bring back Apache for those people who use their Mac to test and design websites. Continue reading

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Resetting MobileMe[ss]

Recently I noticed that my iPhone 4 started acting really, really badly. It wouldn’t unlock when a call was coming in, I couldn’t swipe between screens on the desktop, I couldn’t scroll within mail, clicks in the calendar weren’t working. … Continue reading

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Case-Sensitive GNU sort

GNU sort appears to be producing case-insenstive output all the time, no matter what you use for the case-insenstive switch. Turns out there’s a little more going on behind the scenes you need to know. Continue reading

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Installing Hadoop on OS X

Fix the “Unable to load realm info from SCDynamicStore” error on OS Lion when using Hadoop. Continue reading

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Installing CS5.5 Master Collection on OS X Lion

Installing Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection on OS X Lion and having the Installer hang? Here’s the solution. It isn’t pretty, but it works. Continue reading

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CoffeeScript Bundle for TextMate (FIX for Command Not Found)

Installed HomeBrew to get Node.js, used the node package manager to get CoffeeScript, added a TextMate Bundle for CoffeeScript and got a “coffee: command not found” when doing a Command-B. WTF? Here’s how I fixed it. Continue reading

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1Password Woes with Safari Extension (fix)

Safari 5.1 and 1Password 3.7.x not playing well? Getting a Database error? No such column? Overview key missing? Try this… it worked for me. Continue reading

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Installing node.JS on OS X 10.6

Having problems installing Node.JS because of missing OpenSSL problems? Here’s the solution to that problem for OS X. Continue reading

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Un-denying a Denied Host

A great guy named Nicholas put out an easy to use script to unban an ip address that’s been banned by denyhosts. Here’s me gushing with praise since I could be lazy and not have to write it, along with the script so you can benefit from his contribution as well. Continue reading

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