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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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