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If you don’t want to have to fork over the $$ to buy a time capsule want to make use of your existing DNS-323 hardware for backing up your Mac, here’s the steps to take.
1) Modify system preferences by executing this line in a terminal.

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

This will allow you to select the [...]

I recently started using Safari 4 and found in incredibly disorienting having new tabs appear at the very top of the window frame.  To my suprise there’s a hidden setting that can change the location of the tab bar to something you might be more familiar with.  Check out this blog for a complete listing [...]

Here’s a neat shortcut for doing selectable screen captures on a Mac: ⌘⇧4 (Command – Shift – 4) – will change your cursor and allow you to select a region on the screen to capture. After highlighting the region release the mouse button and voila!.. a new image file will be saved to your desktop [...]

MacPorts is the preferred way of installing, managing, and upgrading ports of some the software I have on my Mac.  Unfortunately mac ports does not let you specify a version.  To mediate this you can create a local repository that is checked out to a specific version and install from there.
This example is how to [...]

Working in a Mac environment I often find myself needing access to the system directories that are typically hidden by Finder.  I recently stumbled across the following script that I find quite useful for toggling back / forth between standard and full views.
Open ScriptEditor and save the following script:
try
set dotVisible to do shell script “defaults [...]