Ryan Gustason

Finding out Application extensions using plists in OSX

ryan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:17:34 +0000

Applications specify file types in their Contents/Info.plist file. You can see and edit it by right-clicking the application bundle and selecting Show Package Contents.

Detailed app info in a searchable text for OSX

ryan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:38:17 +0000

type this into terminal:

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType >~/Desktop/Installed-Apps.txt

That will create a text document with detailed info about applications installed on your Mac.

IOS Screen Capture

ryan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:47:44 +0000

To do a screen capture on an iPhone, press the home and power buttons on the phone together briefly. It should “flash” the screen and take a pic of your screen on the ios device, saving it to your camera … Continue reading →

Showing hidden files in Snow Leopard

ryan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:40:10 +0000

In terminal type:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

To turn off, in terminal type:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

Deleting a service in windows

ryan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:52:45 +0000

Use the following syntax in a command line prompt for Windows XP and above.
sc delete “service name”

Or create a service with this:
sc create “service name”

Note: Don’t add the quotes.

Memorial Day Wishes

ryan — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:20:48 +0000

Wishing everyone a great Memorial Day. To all our veterans, thank you for your service to our country. Freedom is not free, but through your patriotism and dedication we make it free for others to enjoy! God bless you!

Accordance 9.3

ryan — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:21:11 +0000

Accordance 9.3 was released early last week. It seems to be a major release with a new user access bar for those just starting out in Accordance such as myself as well as a much anticipated sync function which will allow you to sync your user modules with the iPhone or iPad version of Accordance. As of this writing the IOS version 1.2 has not been released by the Apple Store yet so I have not been able to test this feature, but it promises to be simple and effective at getting your custom made tools ported over to the IOS version.

All in all I give Accordance two thumbs up for this newest release and anticipate with eagerness the 1.2 version for the IOS

Ejecting a stuck disk in Mac OSX

ryan — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:35:51 +0000

Try typing the following command in terminal:

drutil eject

Otherwise, reboot your mac and hold down the mouse or trackpad button while rebooting until the disk ejects.

Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 flash drive problem

ryan — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:52:25 +0000

After installing Ubuntu Netbook onto a flash or pen or thumb drive, I received the following error while trying to boot from the newly created drive:

SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Unknown keyword in configuration file.
boot:

After installing,

Open the the syslinux folder in the root of the flash drive.
Inside locate the configuration file called syslinux.cfg and open it with a text editor.
Find the line “ui gfxboot bootlogo” and remove the “ui “.
Save and try booting again.

A sample syslinux.cfg file below after editing:

# D-I config version 2.0 include menu.cfg default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 timeout 50 gfxboot bootlogo

Making folders appear at the top of the list in Mac’s finder

ryan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:00:38 +0000

navigate to: /System/Library/CoreServices/
- right-click Finder.app and select Show package contents…
- navigate to: Contents>Resources>English.lproj
- backup InfoPlist.strings
- open the original InfoPlist.strings in a text editor
- locate the line that says:

Code:

"Folder" = "Folder";

- add a space at the start of the second “Folder”:

Code:

"Folder" = " Folder";

- save the file
- reboot or relaunch Finder

The space in front of “Folder” forces folders to the top of the list when sorting alphabetically by kind.

Thanks to Geektechnu for this tip.