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Terminal Tips: Disable Spotlight in menu bar

by Cory Bohon (Sep 23rd, 2008)

Are you tired of accidentally opening spotlight by pressing command + space? With this simple Terminal "hack," you can rid your precious menu bar of Spotlight for once and all. Just open Terminal.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/) and type the following command: sudo chmod 0 ...

Terminal Tips: Disable Dashboard

by Cory Bohon (Aug 21st, 2008)

If you are the type of person that sees Dashboard as an application that just wastes space in your Dock (and an icon on your keyboard), then why not disable it? It is very easy to disable Dashboard; just type in the following command in Terminal.app (Applications > Utilities): defaults write ...

Terminal Tip: Stop disk image verification

by Cory Bohon (Aug 18th, 2008)

Sure, we've all wanted to stop the pesky "Disk Image Verification" process that starts when you want to open that .iso, .dmg, or other disk image. While this process is a precaution against possibly installing/using corrupt files, sometimes it is completely unnecessary. To stop disk image ...

Mac 101: Disabling automatic login

by Cory Bohon (Jul 29th, 2008)

If you use your Mac as a public computer (or family computer), then you might not always want it to load your user account when the computer starts up. By changing one option in the Accounts System Preference pane, you can have your Mac display a list of user accounts upon startup. Just open System ...

CamiScript 4.0

by David Chartier (Jul 10th, 2006)

CamiScript, the script menu plugin for Camino, has been updated to version 4.0. This isn't quite a landmark release that enables Camino to fly around your room or tell you the future (besides, some day, the latter will be Google's job), but this new version does bring one big handy new feature: the ...

WidgetKiller: stop Dashboard dead in its tracks

by David Chartier (Jun 7th, 2006)

WidgetKiller, as its oh-so-deceptive name might betray, is a simple Automator action with one purpose in life: turning on and off Dashboard. If you've been counting every bit and megabyte of RAM that your widgets quietly eat up, this action is for you. WidgetKiller is free and available from ...