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fine-grained volume control

shift-option-volumekey

(doesn’t work in Lion?)

defaults write [Com Apple Launch Services]() LSQuarantine -bool NO

keyboard bindings

list: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html details: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

make applications auto-hide when using the Dock:

defaults write Com Apple Dock single-app -bool TRUE … is buggy!

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install OS from a disk image

From http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/installing-leopard-from-dmg/

Have TWO blank partitions ready. One will be for the installer and the other will be where you install Leopard. [Double this if you intend to also load up Server.]

LET’S GO - With your disc image mounted, open the Disk Utility application (Applications -> Utilities). - Click the Restore tab (see it near the top of the Disk Utility window? Just after First Aid, Erase and RAID’) - Drag your DMG file from the list on the left of your Disk Utility window to the ‘Source’ field. - Then, drag the icon of the partition you want to put the installer on to the ‘Destination’ field. Again, do this from the left pane of your Disk Utility window. If you try to do this from the desktop (as I kept trying to do) you’re going to drive yourself bonkers. - Click the ‘Erase Destination’ check box so that it shows a check. - I also skipped the Checksum. You might or might not want to do the same. Your call. - Click Restore.

Once the above is complete you now have a bootable OSX Leopard Install partition.

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wake from sleep issue:

Also already mentioned is if you awaken your computer and you get a black screen, tap the powerbutton once (which brings up Shutdown dialog box, though you can’t see it) and then press the “S” key, which will sleep the compuer and try reawakening. This frequently solves the problem.

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defaults write Com Apple Finder Quit Menu Item -bool yes

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to disable Spotlight:

By: jjccgg on Fri, May 13 ’05 at 12:10PM PDT As the previous poster said, first modify /etc/hostconfig to read:

SPOTLIGHT=-NO-

Then to get rid of the existing index, run these two commands from Terminal:

mdutil -i off / mdutil -E /

The first command disables indexing on the boot volume, and the second erases the existing template. You can then use Activity Monitor to kill any mds or mdimport processes or else just reboot. Futzing with permissions will probably break OS updates that try to update files in the zeroed-out directories and of course won’t survive a repair-permissions run.

If you later change your mind and decide you want Spotlight after all, it’s easy to reactivate. Set

SPOTLIGHT=-YES-

in /etc/hostconfig, run in Terminal:

mdutil -i on /

and reboot.

(from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050504012104186))

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#to compact a sparse disk image:

hdiutil compact imagename

scans the bands of a SPARSE type disk image with an HFS filesystem in it, removing those parts of the image which are no longer being used by the filesystem. Depending on the organization of files in the filesystem, compact may or may not shrink the image file.

Common options: -encryption, -stdinpass, -srcimagekey, -shadow with friends, -puppetstrings, and -plist.

restore bounce to Mail

from http://blog.afewguyscoding.com/2011/08/restoring-bounce-functionality-mail-app-lion

Open Automator.
Create a new service.
Configure the service so that it has “no input” in “Mail”
Drag “Get Selected Mail Messages” into the workflow
Drag “Run Applescript” into the workflow
Use the following AppleScript, then save the workflow with a name like “Bounce Message”.

on run {input, parameters} tell application “Mail” repeat with eachMessage in input bounce eachMessage delete eachMessage # added as a suggestion to be more like the Apple functionality end repeat end tell end run 7. In Mail, select the message you would like to bounce. Then from the “Mail” menu, choose “Services”, then click on your new service. The message will bounce.