unicoding

The following command will allow you to pick up and move dashboard widgets from the dash board to the standard windowing environment. By clicking and holding a widget while showing or hiding dashboard.

1. open terminal
2. defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
3. Logout
4. Login

If you are do not want to login and logout then you may prefer to use the following command

killall -15 Dock

Note that any items added to your dock since the last login may be lost.

Yes this website is slow.

In NZ we have slow…… internet. The speed is approximately 100 times slower than other parts of the world. Instead of applogiseing, I will speak with the ISP and try to work out why the speed is so slow, and why we are lagging so far behind the rest of the world with ISP speeds.

Current connection speed is 128Kbs upstream, 3.5Mbs downstream.

The ‘Finder’ which ships with Mac OS X 10.3 and later has a convenient create archive feature. It is also possible to create these archives by using the ‘ditto’ command.

• archive

ditto -c -k - -keepParent -rsrc $1 $2

• de-archive

ditto -x -k - -sequesterRsrc $1

This information originates form this article on Mac OS X hints.

Finally, if you are looking for how to use tar to zip and unzip files then visit this link.

Alterntivly, view the offical ditto man page.