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Mac OSX Unix – Terminal Find your IP address

One way to find  your IP address is through the Terminal

(go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type in

 ifconfig

MAC OSX UNIX – TERMINAL - DISABLE DASHBOARD

There may be other reasons you’d rather not have Dashboard available. For instance, if you run a lab of Macs in a school, you may not want the students wasting all their work time on the Asteroids video game widget or watching the (I am not making this up) Goblet of Fire movie release date countdown Widget. If you’d like to disable Dashboard, for either RAM usage or other reasons, here’s how to do it. It requires a trip to the Terminal, in /Applications/Utilities, but it’s not too hard to do.

Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key:

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

This tells the system that you no longer wish to have Dashboard available. However, the Dashboard task is actually “owned� by the Dock, so to make your changes take effect, you need to restart the Dock. The easiest way to do that is to type this command into the Terminal (and press Return when done):

killall Dock

After the Dock restarts, hit F12 and you’ll see…nothing at all. If you run Activity Monitor, you also won’t find any Dashboard widgets in the list of tasks, even if you had several open when you ran the above command. Dashboard has been eliminated from your system, and won’t return until you tell it to do so. You can do just that by opening Terminal again, and typing this command:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

Once again, you’ll have to use the killall Dock command to make the changes take effect. Once you do, though, you’ll find that Dashboard is back as usual—and any widgets you had opened on the Dashboard will still be open.

Got this tip from Macworld

Macworld Tip

.Mac trial – access your mail, homepage , idisk

As a trial member, you have access to great .Mac features including:

# Mail—Get your own mac.com email address with IMAP storage and no annoying ads.

# HomePage—Create and publish websites with text, photos, movies, and more. Plus publish photo albums and movies direct from iPhoto and iMovie.

# iDisk—Store files on iDisk, then access them from any Internet-connected computer. Share files too big to email, even with Windows users.

# .Mac Groups—Join groups started by .Mac members (by invitation only). You'll have access to the group calendar, message center, and contact information—plus easy web page and file sharing.

# Bookmarks—Keep bookmarks for your favorite sites online at .Mac for easy access from any computer. You can even synchronize your .Mac bookmarks with the bookmarks in your Safari browser.

# Address Book—Enjoy online access to all your contact data. Your .Mac Address Book can synchronize with your desktop Address Book to keep your information up-to-date.

# Backup—Backup 3 from Apple lets you protect your precious photos, favorite music and important files from accidental damage or loss. Schedule regular backups to iDisk, CDs, DVDs, and hard drives. (Trial accounts are limited to 100 MB per backup.)

Enhance your Mac with .Mac

Delicious Library – Catalog books movies music video with iSight

Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves

In this videopodcast, I will cover only two of the many features of Delicious Library

Delicious Library

coconutIdentityCard tells you when your Mac/iPod were built by Apple.

Just plug in your iPod while the app is running and it will show you the information about your iPod instantly.

Because it's UniversalBinary, it will run also ob the upcoming Intel-Based-Macs.

Format of the date: dd.mm.yyyy

System-requirements:

- Apple Macintosh built in or after 1997

- MacOS 10.3.9

- optional: iPod (does currently not work with iPod shuffle)

CoconutIdentitycard

coconutBattery shows you the current charge of your laptop battery

also shows you the  current maximum capacity  of it in relation to the  original capacity your battery had  as it left the factory.

battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery),

the current charger (coconutBattery even warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your Notebook)

information about the age of your Mac.

Coconutbattery

Personal Websharing – How to share your files over the internet.

 Personal Websharing shows you how to share your files with anyone out there in the world with an internet connection.

It will also show you STEP by STEP how to turn your Mac into a server.

I founded Penang Mac User Group in late May 2005 so that Mac Users  in Penang can gather and share their Mac experiences. 

If you are a new Mac User, try to get help from a User Group closest to you.

The NEXT best place to get information will be

 Apple Discussions

Libsyn –   The BEST place to host your Podcasts

For the year 2005, the BEST place on the planet to host your podcast.

Why Libsyn

1. USD 5.00 per month  - anybody can afford  to have a podcast

 ( level playing field)

2. Unlimited bandwidth – you never get charged if your audience increases.

3. 100mb monthly storage – as long as you are a subscriber, they will keep hosting your older podcasts on top of your present 100mb monthly storage

Libsyn website

OSx86 Project – News about Apple's Intel transition.

The BEST site to get info on Apple's Intel transition.

News

Forum

IRC chat!!

OSx86 Project Website

Veoh -  Free software to watch Internet Television

Using Veoh's free software, you can watch Full-Screen Internet Television, with access to shows that you could never find on traditional television networks. No matter what your interest or taste, chances are that you will find what you're looking for on Veoh.

Give it a try, it's completely free.

Veoh Website

Think Free Office Online

A revolutionary FREE service that lets you create, access and edit

Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents within a

Web browser

Think Free Office Online Website

Configuring your email client: Apple Mail with Gmail

There are many features built into Mac Osx Tiger 10.4

Configuring Apple Mail with Gmail will make it much better.

What you can do with Apple Mail

There are 100 Gmail invites reserved for Subscribers to Myvideopodcast . Feel free to email me for a free Gmail account.

PORTABLE  MEDIA EXPO & PODCASTING CONFERENCE 2005

(Explore the website and listen to ALL the podcasts available)

Friday, November 11, 2005

Saturday, November 11, 2005

Plenty of information on Podcasting.

I have highlighted just two here

Keynote Address 1  Leo Laporte

How Citizen Media is Changing the Face of Traditional Media

Enable & Disable Dashboard – Stop Dashboard

All this widget does is kill the Dock process (which Dashboard is a part of). MacOSX will automatically restart the Dock but without Dashboard in memory. Press F12 to start it up again.

Stop Dashboard website

gDisk – Gmail portable hard drive

gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible across the Internet.

gDisk website

Pro:fx        Design stunning websites online.

I made myvideopodcast intro with the help of this website.

Everything you need to design stunning websites is available to you from virtually any computer with a broadband internet connection.

Pro:fx website

MyVideopodcast Intro Mov.

This is my video podcast intro that I made. I wanted to make a Very Short intro no more than ten seconds and less than 1mb

I will try to limit the size of All my video podcasts to no more than 10mbs if possible.

This is to enable Mac Users out there with a dial up connection to be able to download it.

Tomorrow I will show you a website that can help you do this online.

Check it out.

Firstly I would like to thank  Loh Yap Kant for turning a hardcore Windows user into a Mac maniac. It is through his patience, wonderful explanations, technical expertise and knowledge in Apple that SWITCHED me.

I bought an Apple iMac G5  17" 2GHz PowerPC G5 160Gb hard disk. 1.5Gb ram. in June 2005 and these video podcasts are basically 100% my experiences on my iMac which I think its cool to share with every Mac User out there.

In the beginning it was very difficult for me as I have been using windows for over twenty years. I am a new switcher and  with The Mac OSX Tiger I felt like a complete novice. It became apparent to me that I was on my own and many of the things I picked up was through my constant desire to know more about my Mac.

 My Video podcast will be 100% my daily Apple Mac experiences covering Mac Osx Tiger Tips, Mac Widgets, Mac shareware & freeware, Mac Websites, Mac Linux , Mac Rumors & Mac Technology or Apple Special Events. 7 categories to be covered one a day for  a week. It is my believe that with my videopodcast many a Mac user both new or not so new will benefit from me sharing my Mac experiences.

The video podcast will be made available daily and as I learn, I will share it with everyone out there. As my iMac is in the hall, there will be the TV, background voices and two screaming kids running about.. It is intentional that this video podcast will not edited too much as I want to share it as fast as possible. It is also to show that there is now level playing field between the podcast/video podcast pros and amateurs like myself. Practically anyone can do a podcast and share it with the WORLD!