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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

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Includes the ability to take a system snapshot that can help find 
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Mac OS X Keyboard shortcuts

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Keyboard Shortcuts For Mac OS X</div>
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Here is a list of all the shortcuts in Mac OS X which are most useful for all Mac users. 
 
 
Startup 
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<li>"Press X during startup" = Force Mac OS X startup</li>
<li>"Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup" = Bypass primary 
startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or 
external disk)</li>
<li>"Press C during startup" = Start up from a CD that has a system folder</li>
<li>"Press N during startup" = Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot)</li>
<li>"Press T during startup" = Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode</li>
<li>"Press Shift during startup" = start up in Safe Boot mode and 
temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files
 (Mac OS X 10.2 and later) </li>
<li>"Press Command-V during startup" = Start up in Verbose mode</li>
<li>"Press Command-S during startup" = Start up in Single-User mode</li>
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Finder window 
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<li>"Command-W" = Close Window</li>
<li>"Option-Command-W" = Close all Windows</li>
<li>"Command-Right Arrow" = Expand folder (list view)</li>
<li>"Option-Command-Right Arrow" = Expand folder and nested subfolders (list view)</li>
<li>"Command-Left Arrow" = Collapse Folder (list view)</li>
<li>"Option-Command-Up Arrow" = Open parent folder and close current window</li>
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Menu Commands 
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<li>"Shift-Command-Q" = Apple Menu Log out</li>
<li>"Shift-Option-Command-Q" = Apple Menu Log out immediately</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-Delete" = Finder Menu Empty Trash</li>
<li>"Option-Shift-Command-Delete" = Finder Menu Empty Trash without dialog</li>
<li>"Command-H" = Finder Menu Hide Finder</li>
<li>"Option-Command-H" = Finder Menu Hide Others</li>
<li>"Command-N" = File Menu New Finder window</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-N" = File Menu New Folder</li>
<li>"Command-O" = File Menu Open</li>
<li>"Command-S" = File Menu Save</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-S" = File Menu Save as</li>
<li>"Command-P" = File Menu Print</li>
<li>"Command-W" = File Menu Close Window</li>
<li>"Option-Command-W" = File Menu Close all Windows</li>
<li>"Command-I" = File Menu Get Info</li>
<li>"Option-Command-I" = File Menu Show Attributes Inspector</li>
<li>"Command-D" = File Menu Duplicate</li>
<li>"Command-L" = File Menu Make Alias</li>
<li>"Command-R" = File Menu Show original</li>
<li>"Command-T" = File Menu Add to Favorites</li>
<li>"Command-Delete" = File Menu Move to Trash</li>
<li>"Command-E" = File Menu Eject</li>
<li>"Command-F" = File Menu Find</li>
<li>"Command-Z" = Edit Menu Undo</li>
<li>"Command-X" = Edit Menu Cut</li>
<li>"Command-C" = Edit Menu Copy</li>
<li>"Command-V" = Edit Menu Paste</li>
<li>"Command-A" = Edit Menu Select All</li>
<li>"Command-1" = View Menu View as Icons</li>
<li>"Command-2" = View Menu View as List</li>
<li>"Command-3" = View Menu View as Columns</li>
<li>"Command-B" = View Menu Hide Toolbar</li>
<li>"Command-J" = View Menu Show View Options</li>
<li>"Command - [" = Go Menu Back</li>
<li>"Command - ]" = Go Menu Forward</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-C" = Go Menu Computer</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-H" = Go Menu Home</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-I" = Go Menu iDisk</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-A" = Go Menu Applications</li>
<li>"Shift-Command-F" = Go Menu Favorites </li>
<li>"Shift-Command-G" = Go Menu Goto Folder</li>
<li>"Command-K" = Go Menu Connect to Server</li>
<li>"Command-M" = Window Menu Minimize Window</li>
<li>"Command-?" = Help Menu Open Mac Help</li>
<li>"Command-Space" = Open Spotlight (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
<li>"Command-Alt-Space" = Open Spotlight Guide (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
<li>"F12" = Opens Dashboard (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
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Universal Access and VoiceOver 
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<li>"Option-Command-* (asterisk)" = Turn on Zoom</li>
<li>"Option-Command-+ (plus)" = Zoom in</li>
<li>"Option-Command-- (minus)" = Zoom out</li>
<li>"Control-Option-Command-* (asterisk)" = Switch to White on Black</li>
<li>"Control-F1" = Turn on Full Keyboard Access</li>
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When Full Keyboard Access is turned on, you can use the key combinations listed in the table below from the Finder. 
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<li>"Control-F2" = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Menu </li>
<li>"Control-F3" = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Dock</li>
<li>"Control-F4" = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Window (active) or next window behind it</li>
<li>"Control-F5" = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Toolbar</li>
<li>"Control-F6" = Full Keyboard Access Highlight Utility window (palette)</li>
<li>"Command-F5 or fn-Command-F5" = Turn VoiceOver on or off (Mac OS X 10.4 or later) </li>
<li>"Control-Option-F8 or fn-Control-Option-F8" = Open VoiceOver Utility (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
<li>"Control-Option-F7 or fn-Control-option-F7" = Display VoiceOver menu (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
<li>"Control-Option-; or fn-Control-option-" = Enable/disable VoiceOver Control-Option lock (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)</li>
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Mouse Keys 
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<li>"8" = Move Up</li>
<li>"2" = Move Down</li>
<li>"4" = Move Left</li>
<li>"6" = Move Right</li>
<li>"1, 3, 7, 9" = Move Diagonally</li>
<li>"5" = Press Mouse Button</li>
<li>"0" = Hold Mouse Button</li>
<li>". (period on keypad)" = Release Mouse Button (use after pressing 0)</li>
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Other Commands 
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<li>"Option-Command-D" = Show/Hide Dock</li>
<li>"Command-Tab" = Switch application</li>
<li>"Command-Up Arrow" = Move up one directory</li>
<li>"Command-Down Arrow" = Move down one directory</li>
<li>"Page Up or Control-Up Arrow" = Move up one page</li>
<li>"Page Down or Control-Down Arrow" = Move down one page</li>
<li>"Option-Drag" = Copy to new location</li>
<li>"Option-Command-Drag" = Make alias in new location</li>
<li>"Command-Drag" = Move to new location without copying</li>
<li>"Command-C" = Show Colors palette in application</li>
<li>"Command-T" = Show Font palette in application</li>
<li>"Command-Shift-3" = Take a picture of the screen</li>
<li>"Command-Shift-4" = Take a picture of the selection</li>
<li>"Command-Shift-4, then press Control while selecting" = Take a picture of the screen, place in Clipboard</li>
<li>"Command-Shift-4, then Spacebar" = Take a picture of the selected window</li>
<li>"Option-Command-esc" = Force Quit</li>
<li>"Control-Eject" = Restart, Sleep, Shutdown dialog box</li>
<li>"Control-Command-Eject" = Quit all applications and restart</li>
<li>"Option-Command-Eject or Option-Command-Power" = Sleep</li>
<li>"Command-click window toolbar button (upper right corner)" = Cycle 
through available views for the window's toolbar (dependant on the 
nature of the Finder or application window)</li>
<li>"Command-`" = Cycle through windows in application or Finder (if more than one window is open)</li>
<li>"Function-Delete (PowerBook, iBook only)" = Forward Delete (delete the character to the right of your cursor)</li>
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

How to Create screenshots with Apple Script

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 Automatically Create Screenshots from a List of Websites</h1>
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It’s been quite a while since we’ve had any fun with AppleScript so 
today we’re going to build a super basic script that automatically reads
 a list of URLs and turns them into screenshots. 


 
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The Workflow</div>
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As a full-time blogger, it’s quite often the case that I have to put 
together a list of well-designed websites or some other post that 
requires me to post screenshots of anywhere from fifty to one hundred 
web pages. This is an exhausting process! 
Since I’m lazy and love to sit back and watch my computer do my work 
for me, I wrote a simple script to handle the process. Basically, we’ll 
be using a modified version of a <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/07/applescript-taking-screenshots/">TUAW script</a> to take a screenshot and adding in some of our own code to progressively launch a list of links. Let’s get started! 
 
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Algorithm</div>
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An algorithm is just a fancy word for the general path of our script.
 Before you write a single line of code, you should always outline the 
steps that you’ll need to take to reach your goal. For this post, ours 
is quite simple: 
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<li>Create a list of URLs in Text Edit (manually)</li>
<li>Count the URLs in TextEdit</li>
<li>Grab the first URL</li>
<li>Open the first URL in Safari</li>
<li>Take a screenshot</li>
<li>Repeat for the rest of the URLs</li>
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That’s not so bad is it? We should be able to knock this out in no time. 
 
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Step 1: Declare Some Variables</div>
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One of the first steps I like to take when coding is to think about 
the variables that I’ll need and declare them. For instance, here I know
 I’ll need one counter that will help me cycle through the URLs, a 
variable to hold the total number of URLs and a variable to hold a 
customizable file name for the resulting files. 
To this end, we’ll declare our counter and filename first. I called 
the counter “whichUrl” because it will essentially be keeping track of 
which URL we’re on throughout the script. Notice that I’ll be using 
comments quite liberally throughout the script, this is a good practice 
to get into. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace; text-align: left;"> Variables
 set whichUrl to 1
 set fileNames to "webshot"</pre>
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Next up, we need to create a tell block that grabs the number of URLs
 from TextEdit. If we put each URL on a line of its own, AppleScript 
will see each URL as a paragraph, so we simply tell it to set our 
variable equal to the number of paragraphs in the front document. This 
effectively counts our URLs for us. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;"> Get Number of URLs
 tell application "TextEdit"
	set theCount to the count of paragraphs of front document
 end tell</pre>
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Step 2: Create a Repeat Block</div>
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At this point of the script, we’ll have everything we need to start 
grabbing URLs and taking screenshots. What we need to do is create a 
loop of commands that will repeat for every URL. Since we took the 
number of URLs and put it into our “theCount” variable, we can tell 
AppleScript to repeat that many times. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace; text-align: left;"> Repeat this for every URL
 repeat theCount times
	--some code here
 end repeat</pre>
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Step 3: Grabbing a URL</div>
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The first step we want to do within our repeat block is to grab the 
first URL and put it in a variable so we can open it in Safari later. To
 do this, we take advantage of our whichURL variable, which is initially
 set to one.  
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;"> Repeat this for every URL
 repeat theCount times
 
	--Get the next URL
	tell application "TextEdit"
		set currentUrl to paragraph whichUrl of front document as text
	end tell
 
end repeat</pre>
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As you can see, we told TextEdit to grab the contents of the first 
paragraph and throw it into the variable “currentURL”. Admittedly, my 
variables are a bit confusing and could be named a bit better! Feel free
 to change them to something that makes more sense to you. 
 
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Step 4: Open the URL in Safari</div>
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Now that we have the URL set to a variable, it’s time to open a 
Safari window with the URL set to that value. Basically we just create a
 tell block and set the URL of document one to the variable we created 
in step three. 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;">Repeat this for every URL
repeat theCount times
 
	--Get the next URL
	tell application "TextEdit"
		set currentUrl to paragraph whichUrl of front document as text
	end tell
 
	--Open the URL in Safari
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		set the URL of document 1 to currentUrl
	end tell
end repeat </pre>
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Step 5: Take the Screenshot</div>
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One of the struggles that I had with creating this script is that the
 page wasn’t always fully loaded when the screenshot was taken, so the 
resulting file was either a blank Safari window or a half-loaded web 
page. 
The simple solution is to insert a slight delay. If your Internet 
connection is slow, you might want to increase this value. After that, 
we then take and save the screenshot. The saving is done by determining 
the path to your desktop, then applying the filename variable we set up 
before plus a number on the end to indicate which URL it was. So the 
third URL should come out as “webshot-3.jpg” on your desktop. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;">Repeat this for every URL
repeat theCount times
 
	--Get the next URL
	tell application "TextEdit"
		set currentUrl to paragraph whichUrl of front document as text
	end tell
 
	--Open the URL in Safari
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		set the URL of document 1 to currentUrl
 
		--Wait until it loads, then take a screenshot
		delay 15
		set saveToPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & fileNames & "-" & whichUrl & ".jpg") as string
		do shell script "screencapture -tjpg " & quoted form of saveToPath
	end tell
end repeat</pre>
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Step 6: Increase the Counter</div>
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The last thing we need to do is increase the “whichURL” variable by 
one. This will cause the script to jump to URL #2 in your TextEdit 
Document and make sure the filename gets a “-2″ on the end of it. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;">Repeat this for every URL
repeat theCount times
 
	--Get the next URL
	tell application "TextEdit"
		set currentUrl to paragraph whichUrl of front document as text
	end tell
 
	--Open the URL in Safari
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		set the URL of document 1 to currentUrl
 
		--Wait until it loads, then take a screenshot
		delay 5
		set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & fileNames & "-" & whichUrl & ".jpg") as string
		do shell script "screencapture -tjpg " & quoted form of picPath
	end tell
 
	--Increase the counter for next time
	set whichUrl to whichUrl + 1
end repeat</pre>
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Putting it All Together</div>
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That’s it! Our script is nice and short and will save you loads of 
time if you ever need to take a screenshot of a webpage. Here’s the full
 script, feel free to copy and paste it right into AppleScript Editor. 
 
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<li><pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;">Variables
set whichUrl to 1
set fileNames to "webshot"
 
--Get Number of URLs
tell application "TextEdit"
	set theCount to the count of paragraphs of front document
end tell
 
--Repeat this for every URL
repeat theCount times
 
	--Get the next URL
	tell application "TextEdit"
		set currentUrl to paragraph whichUrl of front document as text
	end tell
 
	--Open the URL in Safari
	tell application "Safari"
		activate
		set the URL of document 1 to currentUrl
 
		--Wait until it loads, then take a screenshot
		delay 5
		set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & fileNames & "-" & whichUrl & ".jpg") as string
		do shell script "screencapture -tjpg " & quoted form of picPath
	end tell
 
	--Increase the counter for next time
	set whichUrl to whichUrl + 1
end repeat</pre>
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Running the Script</div>
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Before you test out the script, be sure to open TextEdit and copy in a
 list of links. You don’t need to save the document, just be sure that 
it’s the frontmost page in TextEdit and everything will work fine. 
 
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Also, the script works best when you have maximized Safari windows, 
so before you begin, open a new window in Safari and stretch it as big 
as it’ll go. After that, you’re all set to hit play and watch the magic 
happen! 
 
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Room for Improvement</div>
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As I said, this script saves me loads of time and I love using it, 
but I fully admit that it could stand to be improved. For starters, it’s
 limited to the visual portion of the page and doesn’t take a screenshot
 of the entire website. LittleSnapper works great for this but last I 
checked there wasn’t any AppleScript support (get on that RealMac). 
Further, I’m not sure how to snap only preset, specific coordinates 
of the screen, so this script just grabs your entire screen, browser 
chrome, menu bar and all (check below for an alternate version). This is
 definitely undesirable but I always just automate the cropping as well.
 You could automate the crop with AppleScript but I find that it’s 
easier just to use Photoshop and the following steps: 
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<li>Open one of the screenshots</li>
<li>Create a new action and hit record</li>
<li>Crop the image</li>
<li>Close/save the image</li>
<li>Stop recording</li>
<li>Go to File>Automate>Batch and run the action on your entire folder of screenshots</li>
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This is definitely a little annoying but running the script and 
action setup are a one-time process that can just be quickly run every 
time you use them. I’d definitely love to see some talented scripters 
make suggestions for how to improve this to be a little less clunky! 
 
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Alternative Version: Manually Select Grab Area</div>
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If you really hate the cropping process, you can actually change the 
script so that you manually select the portion of the screen to capture.
 Everything else will stay automated, you simply have to draw a box for 
each capture to take place. 
To accomplish this, change the shell script line near the bottom to 
the one shown below. All I added was a “-i” after the “screencapture” 
command. 
 
<pre class="applescript" style="font-family: monospace;">do shell script "screencapture -i -tjpg " & quoted form of picPath</pre>
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Conclusion</div>
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Taking screenshots of a huge list of websites for a roundup post can 
be time consuming and mind-numbing. Fortunately, with AppleScript and a 
little ingenuity, you can automate the entire process. Simply create 
your list of URLs then sit back and enjoy the show. 
Leave a comment below if you have any suggestions for improving the 
script. Also, be sure to let me know what other tasks you find 
frustrating and wish you could automate, if I think it will help a lot 
of people, I’ll whip up a tutorial! 
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AppleScript: Automatically Create Screenshots from a List of Websites It’s been quite a while since we’ve had any fun with AppleSc...

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

How to Setup a Minecraft Server on Mac

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 Setup a Minecraft Server on Mac</div>
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Minecraft is a popular game, Many gamers choose to play the game in its single player mode, but the 
collaborative, multiplayer building is an immensely popular feature that
 powers hundreds, if not thousands, of gameplay servers.

You too can host a Minecraft server right on your Mac and, in this article, we’ll show you just how! 
 
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Vanilla vs Bukkit</div>
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The core Minecraft game can be played through services of two main 
types: the vanilla game and Bukkit. The former is the official server 
software, notably lacking any support for third-party mods and plugins 
and therefore not being the best solution for larger servers. If you’re 
looking to setup something basic and easy, though, then this is probably
 the best option.</div>
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The more popular of the two is CraftBukkit, a third-party server 
package that has more features and supports server-side plugins and 
mods. For servers that intend to support larger numbers of members, this
 is the more favourable option but note that support for new versions of
 the Minecraft client is a little slower than the official alternative. 
It can take a few days for new versions to be released after the 
official client and development snapshots of Minecraft won’t be 
supported.</div>
 
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Both are free and it’s completely up to you as to which you choose. 
The official game client works for both types of server, so there’s 
little difference on the player’s end. Let’s take a look at how to get 
both of them setup (you don’t need to run both, but we’ll cover how to 
get each one up and running separately).

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The Setup Process</div>
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As mentioned before, the vanilla server package is the official 
release from Mojang that is co-released alongside updates and 
development snapshots of the game client. Alternatively, Bukkit provides
 a more featured multiplayer experience with support for third-party 
modifications and plugins.

Both the vanilla and Bukkit servers require the same setup process, which is performed in the following way.

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You’ll first want to setup create a dedicated folder somewhere on 
your system for all your server files to be stored in. Then, you’ll need
 to grab the server file from <a href="http://www.minecraft.net/download">the Minecraft website</a>
 and move it into said folder. If you’re looking to support development 
snapshots instead.

Likewise, if you opt to use CraftBukkit, it can be downloaded <a href="http://dl.bukkit.org/">from their homepage</a>. You’ll want to rename the file to “craftbukkit.jar” to make the process, and upgrading in the future, easier. 
 
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Now that you’ve got a folder setup with your server file inside, it’s
 time to install the server and have its other dependent files created. 
This involves using Terminal but, fortunately, it’s a copy-paste job.

Open up TextEdit and paste in the following line. “1G” refers to the 
amount of RAM your server processes are given and this can be modified 
to a number of your choice. Be sure to change the number — in both 
locations — and nothing else, though. Then save the file as 
“start.command”. 
  
Tip: 
If you’re installing CraftBukkit, there’s one more thing to change: you need to swap out the last parameter for “craftbukkit.jar” instead of “minecraft_server.jar”. 
 
<code>#!/bin/bash cd "$(dirname "$0")" exec java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -jar minecraft_server.jar</code> 
<code> </code>
Now, open up Terminal and type “chmod a+x” — sans quotes — followed 
by a space. After the space, drag your “start.command” file and drop it 
in the terminal window before finally pressing the return key. This will
 grant the relevant permissions to allow your command to be run 
successfully.

Go ahead and open your command file and the server will setup for the
 first time, creating necessary files for managing the server’s 
properties, operator permissions, etc. You can learn more about 
configuring the properties file on <a href="http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Server.properties">the Minecraft wiki</a>.

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Whenever you want to launch your server, simply open the 
“start.command” file and allow the various necessary apps and processes 
to run. If you want it to run by default when you reboot your Mac, you 
can add it to your Startup Items under your OS X User Preferences.

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If you opted for Bukkit (or CraftBukkit), you can now install 
third-party plugins and modifications. This is a simple process, 
requiring you to only download the plugins you want to run, drop them 
into the named plugins folder, and then restart your server to 
initialise and install them.

You can get plugins for your server directly from <a href="http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/">the Server Mods section</a> of the Bukkit website.

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Alternative: Open to LAN</div>
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Multiplayer Minecraft is an entertaining and addictive experience. It
 should be noted that Minecraft 1.3 introduces a new feature to open 
single player games up to being joined by other users on the same WiFi 
network. To let others on your same network join your local single 
player game, simply pause the game and then click the Open to LAN
 button. That provides a viable alternative to manually running a server
 if you don’t care about plugins and don’t want to take the extra steps 
to open you server to others online.

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Conclusion</div>
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So that’s it: with these steps, you should have your multiplayer 
Minecraft experience running on your Mac in no time, ready for you to 
mod and tweak to your heart’s extent. Minecraft’s a great game on its 
own, but throw in multiplayer mode, and it becomes an even more 
immersive experience. Just be careful: you might have trouble leaving it
 alone when you should be working! 
 
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Download Free File manager for Mac

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trolCommander File Manager For Mac</div>
 
trolCommander - fork of the free and opensource (GPL) filemanager.
 muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a 
dual-pane interface with tabbed navigation and rich functionality. It 
runs on
 any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, 
*BSD, Solaris).
 It supports multiple virtual systems - FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, 
Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS and Bonjour.
 muCommander can browse, create and uncompress ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, 
GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb and LST archives. 
 
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What's New: 
<ul>
<li>Implemented Find File dialog. Hotkeys F3 / F4 allows open the viewer / editor for found files</li>
<li>Fixed hotkeys for viewer and editor - hotkeys Ctrl+S and Ctrl+F (have not worked) replaced for Mac OS to Cmd+S and Cmd+F</li>
<li>Added Terminal command (F2) for Mac OS and WindowsXP</li>
<li>TextArea component replaced to <a href="http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/">RSyntaxTextArea</a> big files open now much faster,
 the maximum file size is increased from 1 to 10 megabytes. Syntax highlight</li>
<li>Added new dark theme - "Trol" (see screenshoot above)</li>
<li>Fixed bugs in theme editor</li>
<li>Commands "goto next" and "goto prev" for images viewer</li>
<li>Implemented undo/redo commands and 'goto line' dialog in file editor</li>
<li>Store caret position, encoding and syntax type in viewer and editor for last 100 files</li>
<li>F3 hotkey for directory calculate it size, F4 hotkey shows permission setup dialog</li>
<li>Multithread loading - muCommander starts faster now</li>
<li>Simplified files mark/unmark dialog - only file mask with * and ? macroses</li>
<li>Added PDF viewer</li>
<li>The application compiled for Java 1.7, the older JVM doesn't supporting more</li>
<li>Fixed viewer and editor issues for Windows</li>
<li>Fixed some bugs in theme editor</li>
<li>HEX file viewer</li>
<li>New images formats support. Now trolCommander supports the 
following image formats: png, gif, jpg, bmp, wbmp, ico, psd, tga, tiff, 
pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, scr.</li>
<li>StatusBar for images viewer window with general info about picture and pixel color value viewer</li>
<li>Search history for text and filenames</li>
<li>Support of non-latin filenames in RAR-archives</li>
<li>Fixed some issues with RAR-archives</li>
<li>Improved win1251 charset autodetection</li>
<li>Autodetection of XML-files for text-viewer</li>
<li>Saving the size and position of windows and dialogs</li>
<li>Speed optimization of opening for viewers and editors</li>
<li>Migration to <a href="http://sevenzipjbind.sourceforge.net/">7-Zip-JBinding</a> for 7zip decompressor.
 Decompression speed should increase. Fixed issues with temporary files in trolCommander directory on decompression.</li>
<li>Implemented calculator with support of hex (etc. 0x12), octal (etc. 0123) and binary (etc. 0b10101010) numbers (Alt-C)</li>
<li>Symlink creator (Alt-F7)</li>
<li>Symlink editor (F4)</li>
<li>HTML viewer (requires JavaFX libraries, Java 8 recommended)</li>
<li>Added new quick list - viewer and editor for recent text files (Alt-7) and (Alt-8)).</li>
<li>Added new command (Shift-F3) that allows to specify view mode (HTML, Text or Binary etc.)</li>
<li>Fixed a lot of other bugs</li>
</ul>
 
    
Download Source Code :  <a href="https://github.com/trol73/mucommander/">https://github.com/trol73/mucommander</a>
 
 
The last build can be downloaded on links bellow. 
 
For installation under MacOS need to unzip the file trolCommander-version.app.tar.gz into /Applications/ directory.
 
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Download Links: 
Files: 
 
<a class="linkDownload" href="https://github.com/trol73/trol-commander-dist/blob/master/0.9.3/trolcommander-0_9_3-setup.exe?raw=true"><img alt="Download" height="16" src="http://trolsoft.ru/images/download.png" width="16" />trolcommander-0_9_3-setup.exe</a> 
<a class="linkDownload" href="https://github.com/trol73/trol-commander-dist/blob/master/0.9.3/trolcommander-0_9_3.app.tar.gz?raw=true"><img alt="Download" height="16" src="http://trolsoft.ru/images/download.png" width="16" />trolcommander-0_9_3.app.tar.gz</a> 
<a class="linkDownload" href="https://github.com/trol73/trol-commander-dist/blob/master/0.9.3/trolcommander-0_9_3-portable.tar.gz?raw=true"><img alt="Download" height="16" src="http://trolsoft.ru/images/download.png" width="16" />trolcommander-0_9_3-portable.tar.gz</a> 
<a class="linkDownload" href="https://github.com/trol73/trol-commander-dist/blob/master/0.9.3/trolcommander.jar?raw=true"><img alt="Download" height="16" src="http://trolsoft.ru/images/download.png" width="16" />trolcommander.jar</a> 
<a class="linkDownload" href="https://github.com/trol73/trol-commander-dist/blob/master/0.9.3/trolcommander_0.9.3_all.deb"><img alt="Download" height="16" src="http://trolsoft.ru/images/download.png" width="16" />trolcommander_0.9.3_all.deb</a></div>

Download Free File manager for Mac

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Hidden Firefox Settings in Mac

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Hidden Firefox Settings in Mac</div>
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There are hidden functionality works differently on Firefox. It doesn’t use the
 normal preference files. It uses a separate file stored within the 
application itself.
 
 In a new Firefox tab type in the address bar about:config. 
Click past the warning message. To insert a new variable and access the 
hidden settings you have to type the string in the search bar at the top
 of the page. From there you can right click on the setting and select 
modify or double click the setting.You have to restart your browser to 
access the new settings or open a new window. 
 1) browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll 
 Every time you click on the address bar it normally selects the address. Changing this setting from true to false will stop this. 
 2) browser.tabs.closeButtons 
 This will change where the close button is positioned. 0 = Currently 
opened tab. 1 = All tabs (default). 2 = Remove close buttons. 3 = Far 
right of the tab bar. 
 3) browser.search.openintab 
 This will force any new search using the search box in the top left to open in a new window. Very useful. 
 4) browser.urlbar.maxRichResults 
 This will change the amount of result that appear in you search bar. I
 recommend a large number although it does produce the scrolll bar. 
Default is 12. 
 5) browser.fixup.alternate.suffix 
 If you are from a country that doesn’t have many “.com” domains you 
can change the automatic suffix to your own country code. For example 
you could change it from .com to .jp if you are from Japan. This might 
be taken into consideration though if you use a none English browser. 
 6) browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace 
 If you open a whole folder or of bookmarks it will replace every 
setting. If you change this to false it will only replace the one you 
are in and the bookmarks after it. 
 7) accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive 
 Changing this to 1 will make the search case sensitive. Not really hidden since you can change this from the search bar. 
 8) browser.tabs.tabMinWidth 
 This will change the minimum width of a tab. The small value you go 
the smaller the tab, the larger the value the larger the tab. Useful if 
you have hundreds of tabs open and you want to see more on screen. 
 9) browser.chrome.toolbar_tips 
 If you change this to false it will disable the yellow box that is present when you hover over a bookmark in the bookmarks bar. 
 10) layout.spellcheckDefault 
 This should be enabled by default. If you change the value to 2 it will spell check every search box not just large text boxes. 
 11) general.smoothScroll 
 Enabling this option to true will show make the page smooth scroll. 
For some reason you have to enable it here an not in the preference 
pane. 
 12) View an easter egg. 
 If you type about:robots into the address about you get a page dedicated to robots. I for one welcome out new robot overlords. 
 
You can also view text from the book of mozilla if you type about:mozilla. The text reads as follows.

<blockquote>
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth 
and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and 
sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they 
built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, 
and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was
 naught but a follower.</blockquote>
          From The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 
                         (10th Edition) 
 
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Hidden Firefox Settings in Mac

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Download Monolingual for Mac OSx

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Monolingual</div>
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Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from OS X,
 in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space.
 It requires a 64-bit capable Intel-based Mac and at least OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).

I don't know about you, but I use my computer in only one (human) language — English.
 And I'm willing to bet that you do too, albeit perhaps not English.
 So why do you have a bunch of localization files for the operating system
 filling up your hard drive? Enter Monolingual — a handy utility for reclaiming your
 space for more useful things… like international mp3 files, email or whatever you like. 
 
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<a href="https://github.com/IngmarStein/Monolingual/releases/download/v1.5.10/Monolingual-1.5.10.dmg">Download </a></div>
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 For </div>
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Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) </div>
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Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)</div>
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Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</div>
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<a href="https://github.com/IngmarStein/Monolingual/releases/download/v1.4.5/Monolingual-1.4.5.dmg">Download</a></div>
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For</div>
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)</div>
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<a href="https://github.com/IngmarStein/Monolingual/releases/download/v1.3.9/Monolingual-1.3.9.dmg">Download</a> </div>
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For</div>
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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). 
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Monolingual Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred ...

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Download Memtest86 for Mac

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-= History =-</div>
  
 
 
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The first version of Memtest86+ was released on 
 early 2004, based on memtest86 v3.0 that was not updated since mid-2002. Our 
 main challenge was to provide an up-to-date version of this useful tool, as 
 reliable than the original. Our work started when we got the first AMD64 system. 
 Unfortunatly, the original memtest v3.0 didn't run at all. After looking at 
 the source code, we fixed the bug.After some days, I saw lot of other things 
 like chipsets or CPU that were not correctly detected or not detected at all. 
 As I'm the chief-editor of a french hardware website (<a href="http://www.x86-secret.com/" target="_blank">www.x86-secret.com</a> now integrated into <a href="http://www.canardpc.com/" target="_blank">www.canardpc.com</a>), 
 I have access to lot of recent hardware and I can test and debug on quite all 
 available motherboards on the market. After adding detection for all current 
 CPUs, I've added detection for all current chipsets (SiS, VIA, nVidia, Intel) 
 and ECC Polling for AMD64, i875P and E7205. Then, I decided to display some 
 useful settings for the most popular chipsets. For exemple, on i865PE/i875P 
 series, memtest86+ will now display FSB & Memory frequency, PAT status, 
 memory timings, ECC status and the number of memory channels. Next version will 
 perhaps contain several enhancements and bug-fixes. </div>
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Memtest86+ V1.00 on i875P </div>
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 Memtest86+ V1.00 on nForce2  
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="downiso" name="downiso">-= Download (Pre-built 
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Here is some pre-compiled distributions of memtest86+. 
 Memtest86+ comes in three different way, first is a pre-build bootable ISO, 
 second is a bootable binary and third an installable package for creating a 
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 ** Memtest86+ V5.01 (27/09/2013)**

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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)</a> 
 
 </li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.bin.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.zip">Download - 
 Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zip)</a> 
 
 </li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.usb.installer.zip">Download 
 - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7)</a> *NEW!*
 </li>

<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.floppy.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)</a></li>
</ul>

<blockquote>
 * Memtest86+ V4.20 (25/01/2011) *

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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.iso.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.bin.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.zip">Download - 
 Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.usb.installer.zip">Download 
 - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.exe.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled EXE file (Pure DOS - Obsolete)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.floppy.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)</a></li>
</ul>

<blockquote>
 * Memtest86+ V4.10 (04/05/2010) *

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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.iso.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.iso.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.bin.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.zip">Download - 
 Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.usb.installer.zip">Download 
 - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.exe.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled EXE file (Pure DOS - Obsolete)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.floppy.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)</a></li>
</ul>

<blockquote>
 * Memtest86+ V4.00 (22/09/2009) *

</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.iso.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.iso.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.bin.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.zip">Download - 
 Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.exe.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled EXE file for USB Key (Pure DOS)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.floppy.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)</a></li>
</ul>

<blockquote>
 * Memtest86+ V2.11 (22/12/2008) *

</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/2.11/memtest86+-2.11.iso.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/2.11/memtest86+-2.11.iso.zip">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/2.11/memtest86+-2.11.bin.gz">Download 
 - Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.gz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.memtest.org/download/2.11/memtest86+-2.11.zip">Download - 
 Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary (.zi</a></li>
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This post is going to list 99 different speed tips for speeding up 
your Mac. I have done a couple of these posts before, but those were 
more discussions. This post is designed to tell you what to do in each 
section. Each item is going to be quick, simple and easy to complete. 
Over the past couple of weeks I have been collecting these and using 
them. Although none of these tips will make your Mac hundreds of times 
faster than it already is, if you have a slow Mac or are experiencing 
slow downs a couple of these could help. There are lots of them here, 
but there is always more. If you have any tips please post them below in
 the comments. 
 1) Get Intel or G5 Binaries 
 A rather simple first tip. If you are running on either an Intel or 
G5 check the download site of your applications to see if there is 
specific binary for your computer. You may need to upgrade to get the 
best speed. 
 2) Slim Down Universal Binaries 
 In a similar note to the previous tip you can save a bit of RAM and 
disk space by removing the binary in applications that you wont use. Xslimmer is the best application for this job. 
 3) Clear Caches 
 Your computer runs on Caches. If a cache becomes corrupt or full of 
erroneous data removing it could actually speed up your computer. Find 
your caches files under /Users/[name]/Library/Cache. Once as your delete
 them a new one will be created. 
 4) Web History 
 A large web history will mean your web browser will have to load it 
during start up. A big history can slow this down. Delete really old 
entries to speed up browsing. Disable it all together for an even 
quicker load. 
 5) Reduce Firefox Extensions 
 The more extensions you have the more RAM your computer uses. Delete and uninstall Firefox extensions you don’t use. 
 6) Optimize Firefox 
 You can speed up Firefox by changing a couple of settings in the 
about:config page. Open it up and add the following values. Use the 
search bar at the top to search for these values and change them 
appropriately. 
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7) Reduce Mailbox Sizes 
 A massive mailbox (1,000 + messages) will take longer to load, this 
is because Mail has to read the large database and message files 
associated with it. Split large mailboxes down into folders and smaller 
mailboxes. 
 8) Check Mail Less Frequently 
 If you set Mail to check every minute you put a lot of load on your 
Internet connections as well as your computer. Increase the time it 
takes to check for messages to give your Mac a break. 
 9) Delete Unused RSS Feeds 
 Since Mail (and other RSS readers) can show RSS feeds you may end up 
collecting a lot of feeds. Delete any old and feeds you don’t read to 
increase performance. You can find my RSS feed here. 
 10) Remove Previous Recipients 
 If you message a lot of people Mail adds all of these addresses to a 
list. Removing any unused emails in Window > Previous Recipients can 
speed up Mail. 
 11) Delete Duplicate Fonts 
 In font book delete any duplicate fonts in font book to reduce errors and enable your Mac to speed up when using fonts. 
 12) Delete Any Unused Fonts 
 If you have hundreds of fonts which you don’t use, asking for them in
 applications will slow down your Mac. Deleting them will save your 
computer time. 
 13) Validate Fonts 
 Validate your fonts to make sure they are correct. Like most items in
 this list, speeding up your Mac means removing anything that is 
corrupt. Font validation is under the File menu item in Fontbook. 
 14) Remove Old Events In iCal 
 Similar to the history tip in your web browser. Go through your old 
events in iCal and delete them. It will save iCal time when it has to 
load. 
 15) Reduce iCal Subscriptions 
 This, again, is similar to the RSS feed tip. In iCal delete any 
unused subscriptions that you don’t use. Although it may not take up a 
lot of remove removing it will save just that little bit of RAM. 
 16) Rebuild A Mail Box 
 Along the lines of corruption once again if you have a Mail box that 
is getting bloated and it is slowing down you may need to rebuild it. 
Under the Mailbox menu item when you have selected your mailbox is the 
Rebuild option. Use this to rebuild your mail database. 
 17) Remove Smart Playlists In iTunes 
 All of that scripting in the smart mailboxes can cause iTunes to open
 and run slowly. Delete any unused smart mailboxes and give iTunes a 
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18) Delete iTunes Songs 
 If you have millions of iTunes songs it has to put all that 
information into its preference file. Remove any usused songs to reduce 
the size of the files iTunes uses to load. 
 19) Remove iTunes Plugins 
 Going along the same vein as the Firefox plugin tip. Delete any 
unused iTunes plugins. Delete them by removing the files from the iTunes
 plugin folder. 
 20) Empty The Trash 
 Give your Mac fewer items to track by deleting the Trash. Trash files
 are stored in numerous locations on your disk. Emptying the Trash will 
save disk space and gain you a small amount of speed when opening 
Finder. 
 21) Remove Any Languages Your Don’t Use 
 Your Mac and the applications on it use a lot of different language files. Use a tool like monolingual to remove any language files you don’t use. Please note people have experienced problems with this tip. 
 22) Remove Startup Items 
 Remove the number of start up items for your account by removing 
them. In the Accounts System Preferences Pane, under Login Items delete 
any items you don’t use. 
 23) Log Straight In 
 Every time you Mac starts to bring you the login screen it takes up 
time to load the accounts screen. If you only use one account set it to 
log straight into that account under Login Options in the Accounts 
Preference Pane. 
 24) Repair Disk Permissions 
 In Disk Utilities, repair the disk permissions for your Mac disk. 
Enables improved performance. Not a big one mind, but does help if you 
have a two year old Mac and have never run this command. 
 25) Verify Computer Disks 
 Again under Disk Utilities verify your connected disks. This is to make sure your computer doesn’t bump into any damaged blocks. 
 
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 26) Test Your RAM 
 You have been trying to save all RAM with these little tips but you 
really need to make sure that your RAM is working. Use a tool like memtest to test to make sure it works. 
 27) Quit Unused Programs 
 Mac’s have the habit of keeping programs running when you hit the 
close button on any window. Close any unused programs by Command + 
Tabbing through your open applications and closing them. You can save a 
lot of unused RAM this way. 
 28) Remove Unused System Preference Panes 
 All those extra system preference panes have to be loaded into your 
computers RAM when it is opened. If you don’t use them delete them. 
Right click on any unused Preference Pane and select Remove. 
 29) Switch Off Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, and Internet Sharing 
 All handy little tools that can improve features on your Mac but if 
you are not using them they are taking up RAM which could be used by 
other computers. Go into all of your preference panes and switch off any
 features you don’t need. 
 30) Close Widgets 
 Widgets can be the biggest memory hogs of all. Close any widgets your
 don’t use. You will be surprised in the amount of RAM you can save. 
 
31) Disable Dashboard 
 If you don’t use Dashboard at all you can save your login by 
disabling it. Although Dashboard doesn’t run until it is called for you 
can save some time during login with this simple little snippet. 
 <code>defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES 
killall Dock 
</code> 
 Change the YES to NO to reverse the effect. 
 32) Clean Your Hard Drive 
 All of that clutter takes up space. As well as this it also takes up 
time when searching through it using Spotlight. Go through you Mac and 
delete anything you don’t use. Your Mac needs about 10% for use in swap 
files and other system processes. 
 33) Clean Your Desktop 
 Having lots of shiny icons on your Desktop means you Mac has to 
render and store lots of shiny icon images. This takes up RAM and disk 
space. Remove any items off you dashboard you don’t use. 
 34) Turn Off Icon Previews 
 If you have a lot of items in a folder, Finder has to open up every 
single file and render and icon preview. Turn this off by right clicking
 in a folder, select Show View Options and then uncheck Shown Icon 
Preview. 
 35) Switch Off Image Rotation Desktop 
 Having a desktop which changes every 5 minutes is neat but it takes 
up CPU cycles that you don’t have to lose. Turn this option off in the 
Desktop sections of the preferences. 
 36) Let Preview and Quicklook Open Files 
 If you need to look into files a lot use programs like Quicklook, 
Preview and Textedit to open them. This will save a lot of time and 
enable you to speed up how you work. You don’t need to open a big bulk 
text editor to look at one line in a text document. 
 37) Remove Animations 
 Eye candy like this is all well and good but if you want your 
computer to run quicker disable it in the Preferences, you computer will
 start to run quicker. 
 38) Remove Menubar Items 
 These items can suck down memory and CPU cycles like they are going 
out of fashion. Remove any ones you don’t want by Command + dragging 
icons off the menu bar. 
 39) Skip Disk Image Verification 
 Most disk images work as planned. The Internet at the moment doesn’t 
seem to drop many packets of data. You can turn off the checking disk 
image message by typing the following line into Terminal. 
 <code>com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify TRUE </code> 
 Change True to False to re-enable disk image verification. 
 40) Update Printer Drivers 
 Old printer drivers can take up a lot of unwarranted CPU time and 
RAM. Head over to your printers driver page or search Google to finder 
the latest printer driver. 
 41) Keep Applications Up To Date 
 There couple of a massive memory bug in your favourite application 
which can slow it down and make it unresponsive. Use Software Update or AppFresh to keep up with the latest release. 
 42) Remove Unused Perhiperals 
 Firefire disk, USB devices etc can cause slow downs since your Mac 
has to access these devices every so often. Remove anything you don’t 
use by unplugging them. 
 43) Use Bokeh To Freeze Applications 
 Bokeh is my favourite application 
if I want to squeeze slightly more juice out of a program. It will 
freeze any background applications from running enabling you to get more
 CPU cycles out of the ones you are using. 
 44) Speed Up Dialogue Boxes 
 A cool animation effect runs when you open and close dialogue boxes. 
If you want to decrease the animation time of these run this Terminal 
command so you can save a couple of milliseconds. 
 <code>defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.01</code> 
 The default is 0.2 if you want to change it back. 
 45) Enable A Solid Background Wallpaper 
 Ones of those speed freaks if you disable a wallpaper picture and 
just have a colour you can save your Mac from loading that image. You 
will probably not notice the difference. 
 
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46) Remove Safari Favicons 
 Although I haven’t seen a big increase in speed with this tip others 
have. Open up [name]/Library/Safari/Icons and drag this to the trash. 
 47) iPhoto Thumbnail Size 
 Use a default thumbnail size for your iPhoto icons. Default sizes are
 created when iPhoto imports and image. Using a none default size means 
iPhoto has to resize the thumbnails. 
 48) Turn Off iPhoto Shadows 
 Turn off the shadows which iPhoto adds to every image. The extra processing time can be saved and used for something else. 
 49) Delete iPhotos Trash 
 Similar to your Macs normal Trash, delete the iPhoto one so it 
doesn’t have to store the information and track it every time you open 
iPhoto. 
 50) Store Aperture Photos In Their Original Location 
 When importing files into the Aperture library set them to be stored 
in their original location and not in the Aperture Library file. The 
Aperture Library file can quickly expand if you don’t keep a tight hand 
on what you insert into it. 
 51) Turn Off iDisk Syncing 
 If you have an iDisk or what ever it is called you could speed up 
your Mac by turning off your iDisk when you really don’t use it. 
 52) Learn Shortcuts 
 You can speed up how you work by learning computer shortcuts. 
Shortcuts are a lot quicker than going through the menus. A good tool is
 Keycue. 
 53) Make Applescripts 
 On the same line of number 52 you can speed up what you do by making 
Applescripts and workflows for common tasks. If you do the same task 
every day, it may be quicker to run an Applescript. 
 54) Add Cron Tasks 
 If you do a lot of system tasks and you know a lot about cron and 
Terminal you could added system tasks to your cron tab. This will enable
 you to run system tools automatically with out the need for user input. 
 55) Use A Wired Mouse 
 A bluetooth mouse is cool, but using bluetooth means it can lag 
behind. When you are low on battery it makes you work slower because you
 have to move the mouse more. 
 56) Use A Wired Keyboard 
 If you are a speed typer you will want a wired keyboard. If a wireless keyboard lags it makes you slow down, losing you time. 
 57) Check Your Processor Performance Setting 
 Under System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options, there may be
 an option to change how fast you processors run to save power. If your 
computer is slowing right down this option could be the problem. Turn it
 back up to get the most juice out of your Mac. Turning it up will use 
more energy and reduce battery time on laptops. 
 58) Turn Off File Vault 
 Encrypting your user folder is a good idea if you have a laptop, but 
most people don’t need it turned on. By having it on your computer has 
to work harder to decrypt the information. Turn it off under System 
Preferences > Security > File Vault. 
 59) Use LAN Instead Of Wi-Fi 
 Wi-Fi is great for places where cables wont reach, but it tends to be
 a lot slower. Use LAN when you can. Installing a new LAN cable instead 
of using Wi-Fi will enable you to have massive improvements when using 
your home network. 
 60) Upgrade Your Network Architecture 
 If you are using an old 10Mbit LAN network it is really slow. Upgrade
 your network components to run at 1Gbit which all new Mac support. With
 a new faster network your will definitely see a big speed improvement. 
 61) Upgrade Your Internet 
 Although this wont be a viable option for most people. If you can get
 the fastest internet option available. A lot of things use the internet
 on your Mac, the faster your internet is the quicker these jobs will 
complete. 
 62) Upgrade Your RAM 
 I’ve mentioned many times about saving <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D19%26ref%255F%3Dnb%255Fss%255Fgw%26y%3D17%26field-keywords%3Dram%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Delectronics&tag=mact06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957">RAM</a>. One of the biggest speed improvements is to add more RAM. The more RAM you have the quicker your Mac will run. 
 63) Buy A Fast Hard Drive 
 A hard drive with a faster access time will enable your computer to 
run quicker. This is because it will take less time for your computer to
 find the applications it needs. This may only be an option for people 
running on iMacs and Mac Pro’s. 
 64) Buy An SSD Hard Drive 
 The fastest hard drive you can buy at the moment is a solid state 
hard drive. These have really fast access times. If you can splash the 
cash you may want to think about buying one of these. 
 65) RAID Your Hard Drives 
 Another speed tip for people with a lot of hard drives. Set you 
computer to be a strip RAID. Use the RAID Utility under Utilities in the
 Applications folder. 
 66) Upgrade Your Video Card 
 Most slow downs are visual. If you have a fast video card your Mac 
can render your screen quicker making your Mac appear to run quicker. 
 67) Switch Off Application Preferences 
 A lot of programs have preferences which make your programs look good
 but increases the time it takes for programs to open and run. Go 
through your commonly used programs in the preferences and turn off 
anything your don’t use. 
 68) Stop Using Classic Apps 
 A very big speed tip can be found if you stop using old classic OS 9 
apps and finder a new alternative. There are hundreds of Mac OS X apps 
out there so there should be no reason for using them. 
 69) Find Shortcuts For Your Apps 
 If you do a certain method of opening a folder or file their may be a
 quicker way. Use Google or a search program to try and find a quicker 
way of doing something. You could save yourself a couple of seconds 
speeding up how you work. 
 70) Overclock Your Computer 
 A very dangerous way of speeding up your computer. But if you do want
 to get a little bit more juice out of your computer you may want to 
overclock it. There are plenty of tutorials on the Internet. A quick 
search will reveal them. 
 71) Keep Your Mac Cool 
 When you CPU cores heat up your Mac may automatically slow them down 
to preserve the life of the CPU. If you keep you Mac cool with clear 
vents you can keep it running at full speed. 
 72) Reboot 
 After a while your computer may start to collect a lot of junk in the
 RAM. The quickest method of getting rid of it is to reboot your 
computer and start a fresh. 
 73) Clean Your Computer 
 A dirty computer will mean that your make Mac runs hotter. As a 
result your computer will compensate by slowing down processes to 
increase the life of it components. Clean out your Mac by taking it 
apart and using an anti-static cloth. Consult Apples website 
 
74) Turbo Charge Your Mouse 
 You can speed up how quicker your mouse tracks by using a terminal command line. 
<code> 
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling some_number</code> 
 The highest value that a mouse can track at is 3, through a normal 
way. You can try and increase this to 5 or 6 for a starting point. To 
revert it back insert a number lower than 3 or use the Preference Pane. 
 75) Turbo Charge A Trackpad 
 You can use the same method to turbo charge a laptop trackpad. The 
max speed for a trackpad is 1.5 through a Preference Pane so you may 
want to change some_number to 2 or 3. 
 <code>defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling some_number</code> 
 76) Use A Seperate Drive For Large Files 
 The Mac file system HFS is a fickle system for fragmentation of large
 files. Defragging is not recommend for your Mac system since it breaks 
system file hot clustering, but it can speed up large files. So for a 
quick file access put large video files on a separate disk to speed up 
access time to these files. 
 77) Kill Background Processes 
 I have mentioned earlier that you should kill any programs you are 
not actively using. Another speed tip to get the most out of your Mac is
 to kill any background processes. Open up Activity Monitor and quit any
 processes you don’t need. Be careful because some processes you 
shouldn’t quit. Only end the ones you know. 
 78) Optimize GarageBand Response Times 
 In the GarageBand Preferences change the optimization time. A small buffer will enable you to listen to tracks sooner. 
 79) Lock GarageBand Tracks 
 Lock GarageBand tracks in the main window so you can’t change their 
settings. This takes the load off your CPU and RAM and puts it on the 
hard drive enabling your computer to do something else. 
 80) Hide The Track Mixer In Garage Band 
 Turn off the track mixer during playback. This frees up CPU when playing back tracks. 
 81) Combine Tracks In GarageBand 
 Combine finalized GarageBand tracks so your computer doesn’t have to keep track of these music tracks. 
 82) Clear PRAM (Intel Macs) 
 Although people haven’t found any speed increase, this little trick 
will clear out any RAM gremlins allowing your computer to boot quicker. 
Restart you Mac and hold Command + Option + P + R and let your computer 
chime three to four times. 
 83) Set Big Packets On Your Network 
 The size of your data packets on your network will enable more data 
to be sent at once. Open up Network in System Preferences. Hit the 
Advance button and click on Ethernet. Set the MTU to Jumbo and the 
Duplex to full duplex, flow control. This will enable bigger packets to 
flow over your network. You will have to do this for all your computers 
for best effect. 
 84) Use Quicksilver 
 Quicksilver
 is designed to enable you to work quicker on your computer. Install it 
and do your every day actions quicker. Once as you learn how it works 
and how to use it you will never be without it. 
 85) Let Unix Scripts Run 
 Your computer has a couple of built in Unix scripts for cleaning up 
your Mac. Keep your Mac on during the night on a Saturdays and the first
 day of the month so it can run its scripts. 
 86) Remove Services 
 If you have a lot of services in the services menu this take up RAM 
and time to load. Remove the ones you don’t use with a tool like Service Scrubber. 
 87) Clean Your Dock 
 Many people have found that a full dock has caused there computer to 
run slower. Clean it out by removing unused applications or stacks. 
 88) Block Ads With Firefox 
 Let web pages load quicker by blocking adverts. A lot of bandwidth, 
CPU and RAM is wasted with this extra content that you may not use. Use Adblock Plus for the best browsing experience. 
 89) Use Onyx To Run System Tasks 
 Use the computer program Onyx to run maintenance tasks to keep you Mac clean. One quick tip, only do tasks which you understand. 
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