Category Archives: Walt’s Desktop

Software that Walt runs on his desktop, whether that’s Windows, Macintosh, or Unix. The category also focuses on useful command line tricks and commands.

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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Avoid Awesome Screenshot

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

I was getting some pretty bad web performance, with a little exploration I learned it was a Safari Extension that was doing things I did not like. 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

Resetting MobileMe[ss]

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

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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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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Firefox got real slow

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

One day Firefox just came to a crawl when running web pages with JavaScript. Then I found out what was causing it and how to fix it. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Thick Menu Separators in ExtJS

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Do your menu separators on Ext web applications suddenly appear as thick bars instead of thin lines? Here’s how to fix it. Continue reading →

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