If you want to make hidden files show up in Finder, you can open up a Terminal window and run these two commands:
Swap TRUE with FALSE to hide them again. The second line kills and relaunches Finder.
I’m a curious guy, so I wanted to see if there was anything interesting happening behind the Apple logo when the Mac I use at work boots up.
Turned out it was quite simple to enable and disable this feature. To enable it, just open up a Terminal and run the following command:
When you reboot the next time, you will see all the fun stuff happening during the boot up. If you get tired of it, you can disable it again by running:
That’s it!
Had a tiny fight with Mac OS X the other day, like I often do. This time it was color labels. You probably know (if you have used Mac OS X at all) that you can color label your files. You simply right-click them in the Finder and select a color label.
This can be quite a handy feature, but not so much when it doesn’t work. My problem was that I would give a bunch of files color labels, but then shortly after that the label simply disappeared. I could look at the file in the Finder, it had its label, I’d click on it, and the label disappeared. In fact the color label was already gone, it was just that the Finder is kind of slow to update itself… O’ how I miss F5 sometimes…
I am for the most part a Windows user. I was kind of moving towards Linux, Ubuntu in particular, but that ship pretty much sailed when I got my hands on Windows 7. Awesome, awesome operating system. But, I still have to use some Unix and Mac systems once in a while. And then there are certain commands that I often use, but always forget since it usually goes a bit of time between times I do it. So, what follows is basically just a list of commands that I keep forgetting, but keep having to look up again.