Important OS X Software

 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard  1 Response »
Jun 232010
 

Sites that list good mac software:

Including paid applications:

Text Editors

My favorite text editor on Mac OS X is MacVim as I love both: vim and my Mac.

In order to use it more productively, copy the launcher mvim from the MacVim bundle to an executable directory:

sudo mv mvim /usr/local/bin/

Firewall GUI

Little Snitch
Read about alternatives in Firewalls on Mac OS X – alternatives to Little Snitch!

instant messangers

general:

IRC:

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Mac OS X Resources

 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard  No Responses »
Jun 162010
 

Apple List of keyboard shortcuts: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

great tips’n'tricks

for Snow Leopard: Snow Leopard Tipps (It’s the site of the author of the Growl based Version of TriggerBackup.)

important darwin commands

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Clean Google Docs from Chrome Bookmarks

 Ubuntu 10.04  No Responses »
Jun 162010
 

I was annoyed of all my Google Docs appearing in my Chrome bookmarks (used the daily build). So here is how to remove them from the bookmarks:

Open Google Chrome, set up sync, select all bookmarks ([Ctrl]-[Shift]-[B] and then select multiple bookmarks using the [Shift]-key) and keep Chrome open to sync once more. Then the bookmarks are gone.

The profile folder of Chrome is stored in:

~/.config/chromium/Default
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How to use tcpdump

 Networks, Ubuntu 10.04  No Responses »
Jun 112010
 

You can use tcpdump to debug TCP/IP connections.

How it works

1st console run tcpdump:

philipp@lion:~$ sudo tcpdump -i lo
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
09:55:05.968006 IP lion > lion: ICMP echo request, id 5745, seq 1, length 64
09:55:05.968025 IP lion > lion: ICMP echo reply, id 5745, seq 1, length 64
09:55:06.967003 IP lion > lion: ICMP echo request, id 5745, seq 2, length 64
09:55:06.967024 IP lion > lion: ICMP echo reply, id 5745, seq 2, length 64
^C
8 packets captured
16 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

2nd console start any network activity (in this case a ping to localhost):

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