Do you have the new MacBook Pro Retina? Running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 or less? Are you having battery life issues? Then head on over to cultofmac.com, which has a fix that worked for me. It seems that there’s a issue with a configuration file called com.apple.desktop.plist that resides in your …
When connecting to a VPN, you may want to route some of your traffic to a specific gateway (and thus network). This is more than likely true if you have the option in your VPN connection to route all traffic through the VPN. OSX has two scripts that run when …
Creating an permanent SMB mount in OSX is not so easy. Maybe some day Apple will make it a little bit easier, but if this is something you’re looking to do, check out the solutions below. If you have any tips, make sure to share it in the comments! There’s …
This should be an option that’s available through the Finder preferences, but it’s not. Odd. Anyway, here’s how to do it. Open up a shell and run the following command: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES To undo: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO To check to see if the option is …
UPDATE 12-20-2013: According to BBCAmerican below (thanks!), this applies to OSX Mavericks too! Got OSX Mountain Lion? Getting the above error code when trying to install an app? I tried installing Microsoft’s RDC 2.1.1 and encountered this same error. Apparently, there’s a service called GateKeeper that prevents unsigned apps from …