fosk.it! 2.0

The following steps will help you create a perfect working (i.e. also bootable, indeed ) DVD copy of Mac OS X Leopard. I successfully followed this tutorial to backup the two InstallDVD that come in bundle with my MacBook.

Making a DVD Image

Step 1. Insert the retail Mac OS X Install DVD into your drive.

Step 2. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).

Step 3. In Disk Utility, you will notice a white pane on the left hand side. In the pane, select the Mac OS X Install DVD by clicking on it once.

Step 4. Click New Image on the Disk Utility toolbar.

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While surfing MacTalk forums, I saw a thread with pictures that I find both funny and true.

I believe these are the installation steps for a particular DJ equipment. Now I know why there are so many DJs around using MacBooks.

I have heard about MacDrive, which is probably one of the prettiest and most well-integrated solutions to read and write HFS+ partitions under Windows, but is $40 to $50.

I searched around a bit, and I eventually found HFSExplorer, an opensource (relased under GPL, v3) Java app designed to let you browse the contents of any HFS+ drives and partitions installed in your system. In addition to viewing the contents of said partitions, you can even extract files to any Windows writable disk. This is almost exactly what I was looking for, although there isn’t any HFS+ write support.

Linux users should not need HFSExplorer for browsing file systems on devices (have you already modprobed hfsplus?), but you might find this app useful for opening .dmg files.

This tip is pretty much noob-proof because it does definitely not involve any system hacking, it is just about installing a few apps. I have done my test and have been using this solution for a few months now on my two external hard disk, which are two Lacie Bigdisk 500GB.
This tip has been fully tested to work under Mac OS X 10.5, however it should work fine in older Mac OS X’s. You just have to install the appropriate app version.

Let’s look at how you can take FULL control on NTFS partitions from your Mac.

This is actually very simple. Install the following apps in order.

1) MacFUSE – http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
look for MacFUSE-Core-10.5-1.5.1.dmg if you’re using Leopard, and MacFUSE-Core-10.4-1.5.0.dmg if you are using Tiger.

2) NTFS-3G – http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
the latest blog post should provide you the very latest version with download link, i.e. the latest version is 1.2531 at time of writing.

The installation for both of these apps should be plain simple and straightforward.

Whoa-la! After installing both these apps you should be able to Read and Write data onto your NTFS partition.

Notable limitation of the NTFS-3G partition: deleting stuff will not move them to the Trash, you will be prompted to permanently delete them.

The so called tethering is when you use your cell phone signal as a method of connecting your laptop to the internet.

In the case of the iPhone we will be using EDGE to get online. Its not fast but it will do the job.

On your iPhone:

1) From Installer.app install the program called Tinyproxy;

2) Navigate to the settings menu then to the wifi menu. From here select your newly created network. Then press that little blue arrow to the right of the network name;

3) Change the IP Address to Manually and enter “192.168.1.1″ in the IP field and “255.255.255.0″ in the subnet field. Leave everything else blank.

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A pretty handy tip I picked up from the Mac OS X Hints useful if you tend to open multiple Finder windows for organising/moving folder/files on the Mac OS X. This script helps to reduce the time after you open a new instance of Finder (ctrl + N) and navigate through endless sub-directories to reach the folder you want.

In more details, this Applescript gets the location of the front-most Finder window and opens a second instance of Finder with the same path and view. If there is no Finder windows at the present when this script is executed, it launches a new Finder window at the system root directory (or any other pre-defined target path).

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A quick way of changing the default file format for Grab.app (or “Command + Shift + 4″ short-cut) from .tiff to other formats such as .pdf, .png, or .psd etc…
Choose any of the following line and paste it in your Terminal window and press the return key, that’s it.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tif
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type psd

By the way, here is a list of short-cuts for making a screenshot quickly:

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When I bought the macbook I immediately replaced the stock 160GB, 5400rpm hard disk with the faster 7200rpm in production nowadays: her majesty Hitachi 7k200 (HTS722020K9SA00).

Being this HDD quite expensive (due to the shortage in production) how much it improves seek/read time? I can confirm that power consumption and noise are the same as the stock unit, and that is wise to buy the 100 or 200GB models with an higher storage density per disk face in comparisono of the 160 GB unit.

Here there are some benchmark between a 200GB 7200rpm Hitachi 7k200 running a 3,1 macbook (2.2GHz Merom based, 4GB ram) and the stock 160GB 5400rpm Fujitsu on a 4,1 macbook (2.4GHz Penryn, 4GB ram). So sorry but no HFS+ bench, I can’t find any decent benchmark app for OS X: Xbench is extremely old, and Geekbench 64 told me absolutely random crap marks on the new Penryn, reporting a numerical result more or less the half in comparison of the “old” Merom one!?!

FAT32

5400rpm

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No dai sul serio, c’era veramente bisogno di mettere su la bellezza di quattro blog in italiano (imbottiti di pubblicità all’inversosimile) con l’unico scopo di ricopiare le stesse identiche minchiate da Mac Rumors e Apple Insider?

Eh?