techiehenry

Why is it that we keep on developing smart/PDA phones that have QWERTY buttons on them? I think we should be moving onto the kind of interface that allows us to use our fingers to touch the screen for input.

Honestly, Dashboard for Mac OS X Tiger is quite purty. However, aside from the eye candy that it offers, I don’t find any use with it, even if a myriad of docklets are available for download from the internet. Now running the application but not using it eats up a bit of memory doesn’t it? So why don’t we disable it?

I found a way to do so while roaming around several websites. Apparently it’s just simple. Open up the Terminal, then enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

This disables dashboard on your computer’s next restart. However, if you’re impatient like me, you can issue the following command:

killall Dock

This restarts the Dock. When you now press on F12, you can no longer see the Dashboard.

In case you want to return to the eye-candy, just enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

Afterwards restart the Dock. Easy does it!

In changing the layout of the content in my website, some of the pictures were lost.

Time to look for that backup I did a few weeks ago…

Taken on a live session while installing to a separate partition on a desktop machine’s hard disk.

Downloaded the ISO image through BitTorrent last night — the mirror servers for direct download are almost inaccessible!

I didn’t realize the usefulness of this feature in Mac OS X until recently. As you can see, almost every operating system uses a hierarchical file system, where files are stored in nested directories. In user-speak, this would mean that files are stored in folders and subfolders within the storage media, whether it be an optical disk, a flash memory device, or a hard disk.

This system poses some ‘limits’ in organizing files. When the files become voluminous in number, it may be hard to locate each file within the myriad of folders and subfolders. An indexing utility such as Spotlight (and also Beagle in Linux and Google Desktop in Windows) may be the solution, but the lack of being able to store search results means that the search needs to be repeated over and over again.

In Mac OS X, this problem is partly solved through the use of Smart Folders. Read the rest of this entry »