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Mac 101: Launch at startup, the Login Items tab

by Mat Lu (May 18th, 2007)

Everybody has programs that are pretty much always open (Mail, iTunes, Quicksilver, etc.), so it's good to have them launch automatically at startup. There are a couple of different ways to do this. If the program is already running you can hold down your (left) mouse button on its Dock icon and ...

Terminal Tip: Showing and Hiding Disks using Developer tools

by Erica Sadun (May 1st, 2007)

In a couple of recent posts, I showed you how to how to hide drives using Finder preferences and selectively show some of them using aliases. I received a number of emails looking for more elegant solutions i.e. avoiding the look of aliases and their won't-sort-properly-like-a-real-drive behavior. A ...