Screen Capturing on Mac – Shortcut
Command-Shift-3 = Captures the entire screen. Command-Shift-4 = Freezes screen, allowing you to select a portion to capture. Command-Shift-4 then press Spacebar = Allows you to capture a specific menu or window. Just move the camera cursor to the object you want to capture.
High CPU usage of Directory Service in Snow Leopard
As per Snow Leopard, Apple move all DNS query to Directory Service. If you have long listed hosts file to block ads, you must have high CPU usage from Directory Service. I have dealing with it lately and had enough today. I installed dnsmasq, a lighweight dns/dhcp server via brew, move /etc/hosts to /usr/local/etc/hosts. Put [...]
Saved by applejack
Today I found out that I have errors after verifying my disk. After hearing bad experience of my friend, his MBP crashed after disk utility repair, I start to back up all my data. No DVD boot disk available in vicinity, only not-booting old Tiger recovery disk. I was about to run the fsck after [...]
Instability after memory upgrade on MacBook Pro
If you happen found instability after upgrading memory on your MacBook Pro, I hope this trick will save you from a lot of frustations and data loss like I did. Simple, try to changing the slot. After switching with 4 GB a piece RAM, random lock up was haunting me at worst 10 times a [...]