Ryan Gustason

Safe Mode Boot for Mac OSX

ryan — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:27:42 +0000

Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).

Disable Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 2003

ryan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:49:52 +0000

Start Run gpedit.msc

Expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates.

Click on System

Scroll and locate Display Shutdown Event Tracker

Double click it, set to Disable

Save and exit GPO editor.

Compile WINE from source code

ryan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:40:59 +0000

You will find the following packages on your Mac OSX installation DVD (at least on Leopard). Most if not all are installed when you install the Xcode IDE.

CoreAudioSDK for CoreAudio.h
OpenGLSDK
X11SDK for /usr/X11/include and libs
DevSDK for /usr/include/*.h /usr/lib/*.{a,la,dylib}
DeveloperToolsCLI for /usr/bin/make, autoconf, /usr/share/man/ etc.
gcc4.2ADC to use gcc-4.2 instead of gcc-4.0

Other key libraries

FreeType: http://freetype.org/ - Not required to compile, but most text will not be readable without it
LibTIFF: http://www.libtiff.org/ - Not required to compile, but required by some applications
Fontforge: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
LibJPEG: http://www.ijg.org/
LibXML2: http://xmlsoft.org/
LibXSLT: http://xmlsoft.org/xslt/

Add –enable-maintainer-mode or –verbose to your ./configure line to see a full list of packages that Mac OS X does not provide but Wine may possibly need.

./configure --verbose --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib
make

then type make into terminal.

Applescript script for starting a WINE Windows App on OSX

ryan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:53:31 +0000

tell application "Terminal"
    do script "/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\\ Files/$PATH_TO_PROGRAM.exe"
end tell

Update Macports and Wine

ryan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:12:47 +0000

sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade outdated

Clean OSX cache

ryan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:25:44 +0000

Clear your OSX cache. This is done by starting up your computer while holding the left shift key, letting it boot up completely, then restarting it normally (without holding the shift key).

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