Mac OSX Snow Leopard Tip - Launch Apps in 32-bit mode
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Apparently there are benefits. In Safari's case - bigger battery life.
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SixtyFourSwitcher
SixtyFourSwitcher 1.1
Copyright 2009 Nick Zitzmann.
Did you know that there's a quasi-hidden feature in Snow Leopard that will make your Macintosh run faster across the board at the expense of some backward compatibility? Or are you an Xserve or Mac OS X Server user that has to revert to the older kernel in order to use older software?
SixtyFourSwitcher is a preference pane that makes it easy for users to switch between booting using the 32-bit version of the Mac OS X kernel and the corresponding 64-bit version. Why would anyone want to do this? Because the 64-bit kernel is considerably faster than the 32-bit kernel, with the downside being that it is not compatible with older kernel extensions, and software that relies on the old extensions.
SixtyFourSwitcher requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later. SixtyFourSwitcher is a two-way (Intel 32 and Intel 64) universal binary.
Configuring Snow Leopard Server DNS
After a brief phone call with Apple Server Tech Support, I was introduced to a method for configuring the DNS services correctly during the installation of Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 Server. Since the introduction of SL Server, the DNS services attempt to auto-configure during the initial installation. After a few installations at different clients, I found this "automagic" configuration to be incorrect in most of my attempts until I learned of the following pre-installation configuration recommendation: 1. Connect the machine (Xserve, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, etc...) to an ethernet cable plugged into either another Mac or switch that is NOT connected to the internet or any router that may contain any DNS settings or DHCP 2. When prompted during the installation for the server's IP address, router, and DNS, enter the static IP address you plan on using for the server in ALL three fields (i.e. EN0 IP: 10.10.10.5, Router IP: 10.10.10.5, DNS Servers: 10.10.10.5) 3. After doing this and finishing the installation, go to Server Admin. You won't see the DNS service listed but, after enabling it, the records necessary for configuring this machine as the PRIMARY DNS server will already be configured and will show up after turning the DNS service on! I will continue to update this blog as additional tips for configuring Apple servers find their way into my routine. Please visit my website for more information about my services and company at: www.sourcenetworks.com. Thanks!
Jason P. Bosket, MBA, MTM, ACSA, MCSE, CCNA
email: jason@sourcenetworks.com | phone: (847) 878-3747 | fax: (847) 669-0815
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Install Apache/PHP/MySQL on Snow Leopard
Create
/etc/php.iniand make it writablecd /etc sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini sudo chmod 777 php.iniIn
php.ini, find this line:;date.timezone =Uncomment it and insert your time zone (http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php)
date.timezone =America/VancouverRestore
php.inipermissionssudo chmod 444 php.iniRestart Apache
sudo apachectl restart
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As promised. Hot tip - you should probably avoid Entropy just for now (certainly - they will update it).
For whatever reason - I had a myriad of problems attempting to get it to work with Apache on my new 64 bit machine. Once we switched back to the original Apache PHP5 module, it seemed to work properly.
You Have No Choice Except Restart
Just now the spotlight in my mac became error after it wake up from sleep for certain hours. I used to press Command+spacebar to activate the spotlight, and then typing the keyword on it. After a while it seems spotlight did not respond the searching result. It only show the searching process. Even when i tried to cancel by press escape button or click the cross cancelation sign, yet the spotlight still act no response.
This was the second time after i upgrade my OS X into 10.6.2 a week ago. I'm not sure whether this caused by a bug or not. After sometime to search some workaround, i found that killing SystemUIServer from the activity monitor resolve the problem. That so simple, at the end you have no choice than restart the spotlight. Some folks said this was a dumb solution since restart is too common, but what the heck, it solve the problem right *doh*.
Enabling MacBook Multi-Touch In All Applications
After recently purchasing my first MacBook Pro, I was blow away by the prospect of multi touch with the trackpad. However there was very little support for this useful feature on many of the non Apple software. Fortunately, there is a small syspref panel called MultiClutch that allows anyone to define and change the way the trackpad works across the board. For example, in Safari I have 3 fingers up for a new tab, 3 down for close tab and 3 to the left and right to move to the next tab in the respective direction.
First off, download MultiClutch. (And remember to donate if you like the software :))
This will download a .zip file. Unzip it and double click the MultiClutch.prefpane. Click install when it prompts you to.
This will create a MultiClutch prefpane in the System Preferences.
Click on this preference pane. It may ask you to install an extra piece of input manager software, click accept and install.
Click the preference pane again to open it up. You will be shown something like this (without the extra software on the left.)
To create a new multitouch input, click the + on the left pane to find the application and click Open. (for example Safari).
Now, click the + on the right panel to create the input.
Change the default values of Swipe Left to Swipe Up, and the ⌘H to ⌘N. (This will create a swipe up action to create a new tab.)
If you are using anything other that Snow Leopard you can skip this bit because SL uses 64 bit in Safari, you have to change it to 32 bit.
Find Safari.app in the Applications folder. Right Click and 'Get Info', then enable the 32 bit mode.
You can now open up Safari and test the new multitouch. Swiping up with 3 fingers should open a new tab. This can be expanded to nearly all other applications.
Some possible uses.
Swipe down in Word/Pages enables Underline.
Swipe up in Word/Pages enables Bold.
Swipe up in Tweetie creates a new Tweet.
Rotate Left/Right in Safari refreshes the current page.
Zoom in in iCal shows 'By Day' View.
Zoom out in iCal shows 'By Month/Week' view.
Oh, and apologies for the shoddy screenshotting, something messed up and it saved in .jpeg without transparency support. :P
Snow Leopard Black Screen not showing up any more
Since I upgraded to the latest Snow Leopard update, I seem to have been liberated from that black screen that showed up at least once a day on my MacBook OSX. It seems that the new update solved many issues and my MacBook is running smooth!
So if you haven't updated, I highly recommend that you do. It is a MUST DO update unless you are running a Hackintosh and in that case you should know that if you update you will not be able to run OSX any more on your Intel Atom computer.
Apple's Snow Leopard Update Zaps Bugs, Kills Hackintosh Netbooks - PC World
via pcworld.com
Looks like Apple's new software update is here to help with all those bugs and errors we all keep getting lately, including me! I only just posted something about my "Kernel Panic" screen this morning on Twitter, Brightkite and Facebook. Let's hope that the update will be as PCWorld says and that it will fix everything.
Oh, one more thing. If you are on a Hackintosh, I wouldn't do this upgrade because Apple is killing the support for Atom.
Check it out: http://www.pcworld.com/article/181809/Apple_Snow_Leopard_Update_Zaps_Bugs_Kills_Netbook_Hackintosh.html?tk=rss_news
