Table of content

•	Table of Contents
•	Index
•	Reviews
•	Reader Reviews
•	Errata

Mac OS X Hacks
By Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: March 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00460-5
Pages	: 430
	Copyright
		Credits
			About the Authors
			Contributors
			Acknowledgments
		Foreword
		Preface
			How to Use This Book
			How This Book Is Organized
			Conventions Used in This Book
			How to Contact Us
		Chapter 1.  Files
			Section 1.1.  Hacks #1-12
			Hack 1.  Understanding and Hacking Your User Account
			Hack 2.  Taking the Bite Out of Backup
			Hack 3.  Backing Up on the Go
			Hack 4.  Dealing with Archives of Many Colors: .img, .sit, .tar, .gz
			Hack 5.  A Line Break Is a Line Break
			Hack 6.  Fiddling with Type/Creator Codes and File Extensions
			Hack 7.  Locking and Unlocking Files
			Hack 8.  Stubborn Trash, Stuck Images, and Jammed CDs
			Hack 9.  Aliases, Symlinks, and Hard Links
			Hack 10.  Recent Filenames
			Hack 11.  Inspecting the Contents of an .app Package
			Hack 12.  Opening Microsoft Word Documents Without Microsoft Word
		Chapter 2.  Startup
			Section 2.1.  Hacks #13-17
			Hack 13.  Getting a Glimpse of the Boot Process
			Hack 14.  Booting from Another Device
			Hack 15.  Turning Your Mac into a Hard Drive
			Hack 16.  Using Open Firmware Password Protection
			Hack 17.  OS X for This Old Mac
		Chapter 3.  Multimedia and the iApps
			Section 3.1.  Hacks #18-32
			Hack 18.  Top iChat Tips
			Hack 19.  AIM Alternatives
			Hack 20.  Printing to PDF or Bitmapped Image
			Hack 21.  Image Conversion in a Pinch
			Hack 22.  Top 10 iPhoto Tips
			Hack 23.  Make Your Own Documentary
			Hack 24.  From Slideshow to Video Presentation
			Hack 25.  Hijacking Audio from Mac Apps
			Hack 26.  Running Your Own Web Radio Station
			Hack 27.  Sharing Your Listening Preferences
			Hack 28.  Controlling iTunes with Perl
			Hack 29.  iCal Calling iTunes
			Hack 30.  Publishing and Subscribing to iCal Calendars
			Hack 31.  Using Bluetooth for SMS and Phone-Call Handling
			Hack 32.  iSync via Bluetooth
		Chapter 4.  The User Interface
			Section 4.1.  Hacks #33-47
			Hack 33.  Finding Your Way Back to the Desktop
			Hack 34.  Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
			Hack 35.  Putting Things in the Apple Menu
			Hack 36.  Keeping Your Snippets Organized
			Hack 37.  LaunchBar, a Dock Alternative
			Hack 38.  DockSwap, Another Dock Alternative
			Hack 39.  Tinkering with Your User Interface
			Hack 40.  Extending Your Screen Real Estate with Virtual Desktops
			Hack 41.  Top Screenshot Tips
			Hack 42.  Checking Your Mac's Pulse
			Hack 43.  Screensaver as Desktop
			Hack 44.  Dipping Your Pen into Inkwell
			Hack 45.  Speakable Web Services
			Hack 46.  Using AppleScript in Contextual Menus
			Hack 47.  Prying the Chrome Off Cocoa Applications
		Chapter 5.  Unix and the Terminal
			Section 5.1.  Hacks #48-65
			Hack 48.  Introducing the Terminal
			Hack 49.  More Terminal Tricks and Tips
			Hack 50.  Becoming an Administrator for a Moment
			Hack 51.  Editing Special Unix Files
			Hack 52.  Setting Shell Environment Variables
			Hack 53.  Scheduling with System Tasks and Other Events
			Hack 54.  Opening Things from the Command Line
			Hack 55.  Introducing and Installing the Mac OS X Developer Tools
			Hack 56.  Top 10 Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
			Hack 57.  Turning a Command-Line Script into an Application
			Hack 58.  Installing Unix Applications with Fink
			Hack 59.  Mirroring Files and Directories with rsync
			Hack 60.  Using CVS to Manage Data on Multiple Machines
			Hack 61.  Downloading Files from the Command Line
			Hack 62.  Software Update on the Command Line
			Hack 63.  Interacting with the Unix Shell from AppleScript
			Hack 64.  Running AppleScripts on a Regular Basis Automatically
			Hack 65.  Running Linux on an iBook
		Chapter 6.  Networking
			Section 6.1.  Hacks #66-78
			Hack 66.  Anatomy of an Internet Shortcut
			Hack 67.  Renewing Your DHCP-Assigned IP address
			Hack 68.  Sharing an Internet Connection
			Hack 69.  Creating a One-Wire Network
			Hack 70.  Secure Tunneling with VPN or SSH
			Hack 71.  Remotely Log In to Another Machine via SSH
			Hack 72.  Running Windows on and from a Mac
			Hack 73.  Sharing Files Between Mac and Windows PCs
			Hack 74.  Mounting a WebDAV Share
			Hack 75.  Mounting a Remote FTP Directory
			Hack 76.  Exchanging a File via Bluetooth
			Hack 77.  Using Your Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem
			Hack 78.  Setting Up Domain Name Service
		Chapter 7.  Email
			Section 7.1.  Hacks #79-84
			Hack 79.  Taming the Entourage Database
			Hack 80.  Using IMAP with Apple's Mail Application
			Hack 81.  Setting Up IMAP and POP Mail Servers
			Hack 82.  Getting sendmail Up and Running
			Hack 83.  Downloading POP Mail with fetchmail
			Hack 84.  Creating Mail Aliases
		Chapter 8.  The Web
			Section 8.1.  Hacks #85-98
			Hack 85.  Searching the Internet from Your Desktop
			Hack 86.  Saving Web Pages for Offline Reading
			Hack 87.  Reading Syndicated Online Content
			Hack 88.  Serving Up a Web Site with the Built-In Apache Server
			Hack 89.  Editing the Apache Web Server's Configuration
			Hack 90.  Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl
			Hack 91.  AppleScript CGI with ACGI Dispatcher
			Hack 92.  Turning on CGI
			Hack 93.  Turning on PHP
			Hack 94.  Turning on Server-Side Includes (SSI)
			Hack 95.  Turning on WebDAV
			Hack 96.  Controlling Web-Server Access by Hostname or IP Address
			Hack 97.  Controlling Web-Server Access by Username and Group
			Hack 98.  Directory Aliasing, Indexing, and Autoindexing
		Chapter 9.  Databases
			Section 9.1.  Hacks #99-100
			Hack 99.  Installing the MySQL Database
			Hack 100.  Installing the PostgreSQL Database
		Colophon
		Index