To get back to my ‘how to disable’ defaults-write series, here’s a good one that I use myself whilst performing demos in my training courses. ‘Single App Mode’ is the ability to force the Finder to only display the active
Here’s a quick tip that proves you can teach an old dog new tricks. After all the years of using OS X one of our ex whipper snappers showed this to me the other day, so thank you Mr Phelps.
Hi all. With the new update to Firefox (version 21.0) a few areas that the Firefox deployment configuration works in have been moved. The main change is that all the ‘working’ files and folders are moved from “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS” into “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/browser”.
Hi all. With the new update to Firefox (version 21.0) a few areas that the Firefox deployment configuration works in have been moved. The main change is that all the ‘working’ files and folders are moved from “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS” into “./Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/browser”.
Here’s yet another tip in my ‘how to disable Series!’ Now Dashboard can be useful, but I understand that there is the need to disable this perhaps within a managed working environment. Luckily, the good old command line has an
Even though it has been a feature of OS X for several years now Screen Sharing doesn’t get the recognition I feel it deserves especially considering this is an inbuilt feature. In 10.7 Apple added some nice new features which
We have covered the notification centre in a few blogs in the past, including how to temporarily disable, expand and toggle “do not disturb” on the notification centre. Recently, however, a student attending our Advanced deployment course asked me how
Here’s another nice little tip in my ‘How to Disable Series’! The OS X Finder’s ‘Go to Folder’ menubar option allows a user to enter the path to any folder in the file system, whether it is visible or not.
The final date for Lion 10.7 exams has just been confirmed as the 14th June 2013, these exams include: – Mac Integration Basics (9L0-407), – ACTC 10.7 Re-certification (9L0-517) – OS X Support Essentials 10.7 (9L0-410) – OS X Server
Following on from my previous blog ‘Prevent OS X help windows from hogging your screen’, here’s another defaults write configuring tip, this time it’s all about disabling Mission Control. When disabling Mission Control, it also disables the Spaces feature –