Posted on November 1, 2009 at 9:44 am
Does your computer constantly fail at copping large files to your new hardrive that you bought. Well, that’s supposed to happen. YAY! right… THE PROBLEM: Most hardrives are formated fat32 or fat16, both of these formats have a limitation. The issue is that each of these formats cannot hold files over 2gb. If the file [...]
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Well, Mac OSX is sadly the least free UNIX based OS in the entire world, but Macs still have a lot of free, open source applications. Although I can’t list all of them (list would be too long) I can give you a list of some of the best. OpenOffice.org Open Office is the complete [...]
Posted on March 22, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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 [...]
Posted on March 22, 2009 at 11:42 am
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 [...]
Posted on March 22, 2009 at 11:19 am
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” [...]