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

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

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

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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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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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Hidden Preference File

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)

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!

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

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

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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