Mac OSX
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After wasting time with AppleCare support (who appear to have no idea how OSX actually works and how to troubleshoot it), I finally solved my continued OSX churning by disabling Spotlight indexing on all volumes, completing all configuration changes, shutting down all applications, reenabling Spotlight indexing, rebuilding the Spotlight indices and then letting the computer sit overnight to index itself. Until I did this, OSX kept churning and locking up its own indexing system as it fought with Mac Mail and other apps over access to files. To disable Spotlight indexing, open a Terminal window and type (enter your password if/when prompted): sudo mdutil -i off /
Abductive Intelligence — OS X Lion Upgrade Remedy - Disable Spotlight and Clear Spotlight Indices
If you’re overwhelmed by your e-mail, Mail’s rules can help. Use these simple yet powerful tools to sift through your e-mail and apply changes to messages, filter messages into specific folders, forward them automatically, set off alarms, and more.
Five essential Mail rules | Business Center | Working Mac
Portables: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display
The following Mac notebooks support the use of an external display or projector while the internal display is closed:Here's how to configure Snow Leopard (and iPhone) to use an enterprise Cisco VPN concentrator (which is what you connect to from internet when you want to virtually join a company or school's LAN). Open System Preferences --> Network --> click the plus sign (Create a new service). On the iPhone, choose Settings --> General --> Network --> VPN --> Add VPN Configuration.
Configuring the built-in Cisco IPSec VPN client in Snow Leopard and iPhone (Mac OS X SIG)
Screencasting On Mac
I’m as annoyed as the next guy about how hard it is to find a decent screencast app for Mac. The forthcoming Mac OS 10.5′s new iChat Theater (and the built-in screen sharing/control features ) should create some new opportunities for developers, but right now it’s hard to know what works or is worth trying. Further, I narrowed the field with the following requirement: I need an app that records to QuickTime-compatible files, not Flash.
While changing the keyboard layout for your user account is straightforward enough (System Preferences -> International pane -> Input Menu), changing the default keyboard layout is not so easy. I use Dvorak almost exclusively (with US English enabled for when friends want to use the computer), but foolishly, I did not choose this keyboard layout when I ran through the initial setup. Every time I login, I must type my name and password in US English, before then being able to use Dvorak as I would like.
