Posts Tagged ‘howto’
How to Speed Up Apple Mail
Apple Mail, uses sqlite as the data storage for all the messages you send and receive in Apple Mail. After awhile, this data base gets blotted. When messages are deleted, the database doesn’t really shrink in size. So, it is good to clean it every now and then. How to Speed Up Apple Mail 1. [...]
How to Install CUPS-PDF Virtual PDF Printer in Snow Leopard
CUPS-PDF is a really cool virtual PDF printer. Macs have been able to print to PDF for awhile now, but the process takes more clicks that it should. Enter CUPS-PDF, this is a little backend app, that installs a virtual PDF Printer on your Mac. Why would you want to do this? Well, if you [...]
How To Disable the Mac OSX Startup Sound
The startup sound in Mac OS X can be rather annoying at times. There are various ways to stop the chime / gong startup sound. The way I prefer to do is with a preference pane called StartupSound.prefPane. This is the set it and forget it method, the kind most people appreciate the most. How [...]
How To Get WordPress to Save your FTP Details
Some hosts for whatever reason mess with the auto update feature of WordPress. If you are one of those unlucky people. There is a fix, and it’s very easy to implement. How To Get WordPress to Save your FTP Details 1. FTP into your WordPress install 2. Open: wp-config.php 3. Add the following: // ** [...]
How To Move Files from One Server to Another With SCP SSH
You can easily move files from one server to another with the SCP command. How To Move Files from One Server to Another With SCP SSH 1. Open an SSH session in Terminal 2. Navigate to files/folder you wish to move 3. Optionally tar.gz the files/folder 4. In Terminal type: scp file.tar.gz user@remote.server.com:/path/to/where/to/want/to/put/file.tar.gz That will [...]
