The Mac has this notion of invisible files. Sometimes you want to edit them. There are third party utilities like File Buddy which do this, but you can also natively view them if you squint sideways. Here are the instructions:
In Mac OS X, how do I view invisible files? – Knowledge Base
OS X 10.5.x
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Mac OS X Invisible files
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
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iPhone 2.0.2 and Apple plans to sell 40M iPhones in next 12 month
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Apple plans to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the 12 months through August 2009, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans.
The article goes on to say that daily production of the iPhone 3G is now at 150,000 units per day
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iPhone 2.0.1?
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Well now that things are out on the iPhone, the collection of bugs come. The most severe are crashing third party apps. Looks like you have to reinstall them, but eventually they stop working (emmory leak I bet). Same for the whole system, you have to turn off and reset (another memory leak)
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Adeona laptop recovery
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence
We think this looks really useful, it’s a new and free service to help you get your laptop back if it is lost or stolen. Free and private solution, Adeona launched today, put together by researchers at Washington and California (San Diego) univerisites.
This is the first Open Source system [...]
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iPhone OS 2.0 nearly jailbroken
July 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hurry, these guys are geniuses. Means hopefully you’ll be about to unlock the phone so you could use it on another carrier and still use the many freeware applications out there as well.
Unlock/jailbreak for iPhone OS 2.0 imminent (screenshot) – iPhone Atlas
The iPhone Dev team has posted a screenshot, seen below, of an iPhone running [...]
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