The Apple Publications Style Guide provides editorial guidelines for text in Apple instructional publications, technical documentation, reference information, training programs, and the software user interface.
Writers, editors, and developers can use this document as a guide to writing style, usage, and Apple product terminology. Writers and editors should thoroughly review the guide so that they become familiar with the range of issues involved in creating high-quality, readable, and consistent documentation. Apple developers and third-party developers should follow this guide when labeling user interface elements and writing any text that users see, as well as when writing documentation for their users.
2 years ago
Tired of seeing folks retweeting to try and get Google Wave invites? Me too.
Just run this command in the Terminal, then restart Twitterrific:
defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string \
“[gG]oogle[wW]ave|[gG]oogle [wW]ave”
Now, tweets containing “googlewave” or “Google Wave” will be filtered and hidden from your timeline.
2 years ago
There are a lot of handy command-line tools stashed around OS X that are very useful when deploying, maintaining, and supporting Macs. These are a few my favorites:
asr efficiently copies disk images onto volumes, either directly or via a multicast network stream. asr can also accurately clone volumes without the use of an intermediate disk image.
Example: $asr restore -source /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD -target /Volumes/New\ HD to clone one drive to another
hdiutil uses the DiskImages framework to manipulate disk images. Software developers should take note of the ability to set disk images as “internet-enabled”, and you can even split DMGs into multiple parts:
$ hdiutil segment -segmentSize 10m -o /tmp/aseg big.dmg
bless can set volume bootability and startup disk options, this is very handy for using in imaging scripts.
Example: $ bless —mount “/Volumes/Mac OS” —setBoot sets the “Mac OS” volume as the boot drive, and $ bless —netboot —server bsdp://1.2.3.4 sets the computer to boot from the NetBoot server at 1.2.3.4.
These are a little more complex, but also can be quite useful:
airport is a utility for working with the Airport interface. It is buried at:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.frameworkrsions/A/Resources/airport, so you may want to make a symlink to /usr/local/bin/airport or some other location.
systemsetup is used by the Setup Assistant, this tool has lots of options with very long names, so double-check for typos before you hit return.
2 years ago
Run this command in the Terminal to change the default location of screenshots to some place where they won’t make such a mess:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location “~/Pictures/Screenshots”
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2 years ago
There’s been a lot of talk about Snow Leopard’s smaller footprint, and its “new math”.
Lots of folks have been dismissing the smaller footprint and saying gains in free space are all due to the new math.
Well, the people saying that are wrong.
Take my desktop machine, for example. Under Leopard, it reported having 30.42 “GB” free. That’s really 30.42 GiB, which converts to 3.2663x10^10 bytes*, or 32.663 GB*.
After Snow Leopard installed, I had 39.87 GB free, so even after the unit conversion, I gained a little over 7 GB of free space.
2 years ago
