Category: OS X

If your printer won’t work under OS X Yosemite, see this thread

If you have a printer that worked fine under OS X Mavericks, but stopped working when you upgraded to Yosemite, this thread may contain the answer:

Ricoh MP C2500 not printing after upgrading to Yosemite

Note that the fix included applies to several brands and models of printers, not just the Ricoh model mentioned in the thread title. The notes state, “This script should work on those that use the pxlmono/pxlcolor, hpijs, and samsung-gdi driver packages. It will not work for the m2300w driver at this point. I hope to be able to figure that one out too, but don’t count on it.”

Link: How to Run Your Favorite Windows Programs on OS X with Wineskin

A lot of software comes out for Mac and Windows these days, but there are always a few games or apps that don’t make it OS X. Thankfully, you can easily port many Windows programs to OS X with a free app called Wineskin.

Wineskin is a free, open source utility that ports Windows programs to OS X so you can run them natively. It’s built on Wine, an engine made for developers to help the quickly port software. There are a few apps that do this, like previously mentioned WineBottler or commercial software like CrossOver, but we’ve had the best luck work with Wineskin.

Full article here:
How to Run Your Favorite Windows Programs on OS X with Wineskin (Lifehacker)

Link: 7 Nifty VLC Tricks You Should Know

Be it Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, VLC still remains the undisputed king of media players. From playing YouTube videos and MP3s to helping you enjoy Blu-ray movies, this open-source tool is regarded as one of the indispensable tools every desktop user should have installed. If you are using Linux right now, chances are you are a VLC user too. And if you are, we’ve got some useful tips for you that will help you get the most out of it.

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7 Nifty VLC Tricks You Should Know (TechSource)

Link: 8 Tips to Solve Linux & Unix Systems Hard Disk Problems Like Disk Full Or Can’t Write to the Disk

Can’t write to the hard disk on a Linux or Unix-like systems? Want to diagnose corrupt disk issues on a server? Want to find out why you are getting “disk full” messages on screen? Want to learn how to solve full/corrupt and failed disk issues. Try these eight tips to diagnose a Linux and Unix server hard disk drive problems.

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8 Tips to Solve Linux & Unix Systems Hard Disk Problems Like Disk Full Or Can’t Write to the Disk (nixCraft)

Link: Spotlight: Privacy Advocates Furious As Apple Feature Siphons Off Location Data of Yosemite And iOS 8 Users

The privacy world is peeved at Apple again. It’s emerged that anyone who uses the Spotlight feature in either Mac OS X Yosemite or iOS 8 will have their location and search data passed to Apple servers. The same data will also be sent to Microsoft …..

Full article here:
Spotlight: Privacy Advocates Furious As Apple Feature Siphons Off Location Data of Yosemite And iOS 8 Users (Forbes)
Related:
Apple’s Mac computers can automatically collect your location information (Washington Post)
How to Stop Apple From Snooping on Your OS X Yosemite Searches (Wired)
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Link: How to Set Up a Local Web Server on Windows, Mac, and Linux

When developing a website, a web designer needs to be able to see his webpages the same way the end user would. Sometimes simply clicking on and viewing your HTML files in the web browser is enough, but if you want to test dynamic content, you will need to set up a local web server. Doing this is quite simple and can easily be accomplished on Windows, Mac, and Linux. There are many types of web servers available, but we will be using Apache as it is the most common server around, very easy to set up, and compatible with all major operating systems.

Full article here:
How to Set Up a Local Web Server on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Mac Gems: Recovery Partition Creator adds OS X Recovery to any drive

To use OS X’s handy OS X Recovery feature, or to enable FileVault on an external drive, you need a special recovery partition on your drive. This utility can add it if the OS X installer didn’t.

Full article here:
Mac Gems: Recovery Partition Creator adds OS X Recovery to any drive (Macworld)

Link: How to Create a Partition on Your Mac

Unlike Windows-based computers, Macs usually do not come with multiple hard-drive partitions. It is just a single partition that you see when you first boot your Mac. Though there is no harm using your Mac with a single partition, it is highly recommended that you have at least two partitions on your machine. This will let you store your important files on one partition when the other one is being formatted. It is also helpful if you plan to install another OS beside your Mac OS. Regardless of your reasons, here’s how you can do it.

Full article here:
How to Create a Partition on Your Mac (Make Tech Easier)

Link: App Factory Turns Any Script a Into Real App

Mac: One of the nice things about OS X is the fact you can easily make tiny little apps using basic lines of codes. Actually turning those little snippets into an app outside of Terminal requires a compiler though. App Factory eases that process by creating the app for you.

Full article here:
App Factory Turns Any Script a Into Real App (Lifehacker)

Link: Advanced Guide to nslookup

When you want to call someone on your cell phone, you likely just find the person in your list of contacts and select their name. The handset then uses the unique phone number associated with that person and makes the call. In general, you don’t need to remember the phone number itself, as the address book stores it for you under the name of the contact.

The Internet works in a very similar way. Each server on the Internet has an address assigned to it and a name. There is a global address book which stores the address (or addresses) along with the associated name (or names). This huge address book is known as DNS (Domain Name System). The way it works is that when you type a URL into your browser, e.g. maketecheasier.com, then the browser (via the underlying operating system) queries DNS to get the address for the server which hosts the web site. A similar, but not identical, thing happens when we send emails.

Full article here:
Advanced Guide to nslookup (Make Tech Easier)