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Apple Tidbits

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Interesting Apple history tidbits from founding to present.

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  • Putting your Mac’s screen to sleep

    Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 20:15 in tips

    Instead of waiting for your Mac’s display to sleep as set in the energy saver system preference you can instantly tell your Mac to turn it off. Press shift + control + eject and the display will sleep without the computer entering sleep mode....

  • Mounting disk images on the CLI

    Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 00:40 in tips

    Simply use: hdiutil attach /path/to/image.dmg Change attach to detach when finished with the image....

  • 23 Nov 2008: New iPod’s added

    Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 23:00 in Site updates

    The complete refresh of the iPod range (Shuffle, Nano, Touch and Classic) was added to the iPod specification database including the iPhone 3G....

  • Eject tray from the terminal

    Posted on Saturday November 1st, 2008 at 16:39 in tips, fun, prank, terminal, cd eject, dvd eject

    Simple: drutil tray open Try close, or for fun make a script to do: drutil tray open sleep 1 drutil tray close...

  • Stop offering to go back in time

    Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 23:45 in Mac OS X, time machine, disable

    Ever get sick of those pesky offers of enabling Mac OS X 10.5’s time machine feature on removable disks? Simply type the following command into a terminal window and you’ll be kept in the present. defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine DoNo...

  • Really really big icons

    Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 07:42 in Mac OS X, icons, copy icons

    Ever think that one of the Mac OS X icons is just really cool and could look good in a document? A whole bunch of icons both old school and new are stored in the CoreTypes.bundle that lives inside /System/Library/CoreServices/. Simply right click and...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.50 out of a possible 5 based on 2 comments.

obiddle

5 stars ListBums

a user of listbums.com made this list, thought you could use it for some comedy on your blog.

iPhone Improvements
http://www.listbums.com/view_profile.php?uid=345&list_id=1102

if you want you can embed the list on your site as a post so you don't have to link to the source!

Posted: October 18th, 2007 | More Reviews From obiddle | Report This Comment

ukmac

4 stars Scott Paterson

Hi Andrew. Just dropped by your blog. Very nicely done, liked the history of the iMac pieces.

Posted: September 23rd, 2007 | More Reviews From ukmac | Report This Comment

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