Mac OS X Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks
Mac OS X Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks
ISBN: 0596004605
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway
- Main Page
- Table of content
- 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
- 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 TypeCreator 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 9.1 Hacks 99-100
- Hack 99 Installing the MySQL Database
- Hack 100 Installing the PostgreSQL Database
- Colophon
- Index
- Index SYMBOL
- Index A
- Index B
- Index C
- Index D
- Index E
- Index F
- Index G
- Index H
- Index I
- Index J
- Index K
- Index L
- Index M
- Index N
- Index O
- Index P
- Index Q
- Index R
- Index S
- Index T
- Index U
- Index V
- Index W
- Index X
- Index Y
Mac OS X Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks
ISBN: 0596004605
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway
- Understanding SQL Basics and Creating Database Files
- Using SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) to Create Data Tables and Other Database Objects
- Working with Queries, Expressions, and Aggregate Functions
- Using Keys and Constraints to Maintain Database Integrity
- Performing Multiple-table Queries and Creating SQL Data Views