Category Archives: OS X

List iTunes Apps by Purchaser

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

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

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

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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Stumbled, quite by accident, in how to open the last closed tab in Safari… Continue reading →

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner | Leave a comment

Groking Objective-C for Modern Day Programmers

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

Here’s what I think trips up solid programmers about the Objective-C language. Continue reading →

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Installing Hadoop on OS X

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

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

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

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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Hidden Preference File

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

Check your ~/Libarary/Preferences directory, do you have this hidden file? Continue reading →

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CoffeeScript Bundle for TextMate (FIX for Command Not Found)

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

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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Files Gone on Drobo FS with OS X Lion? Get ‘em back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Using DroboFS and OSX Lion only to discover that your Drobo shares have no content!? Yikes! But fret not, you merely have a small corruption problem brought on by the firmware, and in moments you can force a rebuild of that database and all your files will be back safe, happy, and sound with no data loss. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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