Techline 4 Teens

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 linux office suite, it is open source and rivals Microsoft Office for features.
HandBrake Handbrake is an excellent open source conversion tool for Mac OSX, it even rips DVDs.
GIMP Oh, you want Photoshop, but it’s a bit too pricy, get equivalent power with GIMP.
Blender I suppose you think this is some cooking app, no, even better. It’s a 3D graphics tool, the equivalent of the overpriced 3D Studio Max. Although the interface is way harder to understand.
Firefox Although, most of you probably know about this one, I think it still needs to be up athere for reference purposes.
VLC VLC is a great, cross-platform media player. It has never failed to play media files for me.
Inkscape A tool similar to Adobe Illustrator for making vector graphics.
Transmission In my opinion, the best Bit Torrent application for UNIX. Torrenting is a process of downloading files.
Darwine An application that allows you to run Windows .exe files in mac OSX.
Q (kju) Sort of like Parallels, it allows you to run windows ITSELF on a mac. It is better than Parallels because it can emulate windows on a PPC, but it doesn’t come with anti-virus software like Parallels does.
Burn Burn is like Roxio Toast Titanium, it burns disks with all the features that a regular person could need, it only lacks DVD menus and encryption.

Well that’s all you really need to have a great Open-Source Suite running on your mac. Happy Downloading!

Hey, if you run a PPC mac, then you probably know that you cannot run Snow Leopard. Well, who cares right, we don’t need that, right… WRONG! The new version of XCode requires Snow Leopard to be installed, AND YOU CAN NO LONGER FIND THE OLD FILE ANYWHERE on Apple’s dev. site. Fear not, because I have a wonderful little link that can solve all of your troubles, but you’ll have to sign into your FREE apple developer account to download it.

I Want My XCode

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 disc, this can take a while.

Once it loads, you should have a window, open up the package called “Essential System Software” Then open “Essential System Software Group”.

Select the packages called “Base System” and “Essentials”

Go up to File –> Install Packages To Other Disk…

Select the drive that you want to install it to, and wait a verry verrry long time.

When that is done, Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/ You should find two files called “boot.efi” and “BootX”

Copy thease files to the same folder on the external drive.

Have Fun…

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 the area where it asks you where you want to install OSX. Choose your Hardrive. Now you should be able to boot off it by holding “OPTION” durring start up.

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 extentions)

APPLE + V = Verbose Mode

APPLE + S = Single user mode

Update: I forgot the most important one,

OPTION = Choose Boot Camp Partition Or Ext. Boot Drive

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 access the folders go to finder and hit SHIFT + COMMAND (the apple key) + G, then type in the path of the hidden folder.

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