I recently upgraded the operating system on my trusty Mac Mini G4 home fileserver from Tiger to Leopard. In addition to the out-of-the-box backup, I no longer have to use SharePoints to manage my network shares. In Leopard, I can just right-click them and arrange the sharing. In doing so, I decided to switch on both …

Did you know that your installation of Leopard comes with a built-in performance monitor? It's called "Instruments" and you can attach it to any process currently running. In the screenshot you see here I attached it to an instance of Eclipse while running some unittests. Instruments has some nice templates …

I recently downloaded Eclipse 3.4.1 for Mac OSX, and tried starting it using the eclipse.app icon. It did not work, and I noticed a message in /var/log/system.log telling me that the JVM could not be loaded. After some Googling, I found out that Eclipse is not compatible with the new 64bit version of JDK 1.6 for the …

If you're working on some source code and you quickly need to insert a hexadecimal color code for a color you currently have on your screen, then here is a neat little trick I found: First, install Hex Color Picker by Waffle software. It will add an extra option to the built-in OSX color picker to show you the selected …

I had a 160GB drive holding my Time Machine backups. Because I wanted to backup external disks, and still wanted to be able to travel about a year back in time, I bought a 1TB USB disk. Stephen Foskett wrote a great article about how he migrated his TimeMachine backup to a larger disk, but it's lengthy and misses one …

I just bought a Maxtor Basics 1TB drive, and found that I could not seem to format it using the Leopard Diskutility. Then, I found this page which contained the golden tip. I'll save you some reading: 1. Open Apple's Disk Utility 2. Click on the drive (not the partition in it, if there is any), and select …

In Windows, there is a great tool called "PureText" which sits in your tray, and can remove formatting from copy/paste actions if you want to. In stead of pasting into notepad, and then copying it again, you now can use the Windows-V combination to paste without formatting. It works in any program, and I'm a …

Always forgetting how to do accents on characters, or where the euro sign (€) is? Use the on-screen keyboard and see where the special characters are while holdin down the option key, or the shift-option combination. Read the small tutorial on HackAddict.net on How to Get an Onscreen Keyboard in OSX. Orange highlighted …

In a previous post on this blog, I indicated that the 10.5.1. update of Apple's OSX did not fix my network and SMB problems with my Iomega drive. In the comments underneath, some readers kindly pointed out that Iomega's K104w11 Firmware update is available for the Iomega drive I have. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I …

A little heads-up for Apple OSX users who have lots of images to resize. There's a free tool available to do this at http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/resizeemall/. It's donationware, if you like it you can send the author money by paypal. I've used it, and it works as advertised. Drag a bunch of images on the …