Posted on March 22, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Installing Mac OSX On A Flash Drive

Search for google for the application “Pacifist”, download and install it.
Put in your mac OSX install disk (use tiger, its smaller) and open Pacifist.
On the bottom of the pacifist window you should see a button that says “Open Apple Install Discs”, click on it.
Two Packages will appear, click on either one. Pacifist will load the [...]

Posted on March 22, 2009 at 11:42 am

Installing Mac OSX On An External HD

For small drives (under 20GB) Refer to “Installing Mac OSV On A Flash Drive”
Plug in your HD and format it to “Mac OSX Extended (Journaled)” using Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities/
Insert your Mac OSX install disc, and boot off of it by pressing “C” while booting
Choose your language and continue through the install untill you see [...]

Posted on March 22, 2009 at 11:30 am

Boot Keys

Boot keys are keys you press while a mac is turning on to allow it to do different things.
C = boot from a CD
D = force boot from hardrive
N = Boot from network
T = turns a mac into fire wire exernal hardrive (target disk mode)
CTL+APPLE+SHIFT+POWER = resets power manager
SHIFT = safe boot mode (stops unimportant [...]

Posted on March 22, 2009 at 11:19 am

Hiding a Folder

Find the application Terminal.app, it is loacated in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Open Terminal and type in the script:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Hit enter to submit, then type:
killall Finder
Finder should now restart, you should now see invisible folders, to hide a folder add a “.” before the name, so the folder “my seceret stuff” becomes “.my seceret stuff”.
To [...]

Posted on November 27, 2007 at 6:07 pm

New Recruit

Techline 4 Teens Now Has A New Author. He Will Answer Some Of The Questions, U Will Know It Is Him Because The Posts Will Be From Austin.

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 6:28 pm

My First Post

In this post I will tell u absoulutly nothing. This is just a first post so that u kno the format 4 my blog.
My First Video

About

Hello everyone, I have been gone for a while, two years, but now I'm back and ready to help everyone with their mac related issues. This website will become a huge directory of tutorials most of which will be made by me. If you want other tutorials made by the techline community try the techline wiki at techline4teens.com/wiki for fast support you should try the chat room at techline4teens.com/chat