KeyFixer – Fix Your OS X Home and End Keys – Starry Hope Productions
A few months ago, I wrote a short article about how to fix the “home” and “end” keys in OS X. I published a step-by-step guide to adding your own custom key bindings via the command line. Many people found this too [...]
Making Home and End work like Windows on your Mac
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
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MDworker bogging Mac
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Like Windows, the Mac has lots of processes running. My current nemesis is something called mdworker which stands for metadata worker. That means nothing to me. But, apparently, this is the process that indexes files for Spotlight. So you can get it to go crazy after bad shutdowns where the Spotlight data indexes are screwed [...]
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Operating System Share
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hitslink.com has a cool site. Shows installed base market share for computer hitting sites on the internet. Kind of interesting, although not clear how scientific. Certainly better than counting all those computers that are door stops these days for operating systems#
Operating System Share Windows 91% Mac 7.8% Linux [...]Tags: Cool Site·Google·Internet Kind·iPhone·Linux·Market Share·Microsoft·Opera·Operating System·Operating Systems·Reverse Search Engine·Safari·Search Engine Usage·Search Google·System Share·Windows Mac·Windows Users·Yahoo