Archive for category 'Mac'
Show/Hide Hidden Files in Snow Loepard
A while back I posted a way to show/hide hidden files in Leopard. Now that I am using Snow Leopard and needed to see the hidden files, I went in search of a more elegant way to accomplish this. Read this blog post. It’s pretty much the same steps. It also includes optional steps to … Continue reading
Mac Seeing My Single Click As A Double Click
I was having problems with my mouse. I have a Logitech MX 620 Cordless Laser Mouse on my home Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard MacBook Pro that was upgraded from Leopard. Many times, when I single left click, it decides to double click instead. The double click happens instantly like it sees my single … Continue reading
Mac Subversion with Cornerstone
When I upgraded my Mac from Leopard to Snow Leopard, the only thing that really changed for me was I had to updated a couple pieces of software or wait about a week for the software to be updated. There were two things that could not be updated. The first was a plugin called NuFile … Continue reading
Make MAMP Start MySQL When It Doesn’t Want To
I am using MAMP for local PHP development. It’s alright. It has a tendency to not want to cooperate sometimes. Like this morning. I loaded up MAMP and Apache started just fine but MySQL didn’t want to do anything. If you are getting an error similar to “Error: Could not connect to MySQL server!”, rather … Continue reading
Tab Through Radio Buttons and Checkboxes in Forms
Something that’s been bothering me latey is the fact that, in forms, I can’t tab through all of the form elements. It completely skips checkboxes and radio buttons. It does this in both Safari and Firefox. I thought it was a preferences issue in the browsers. I searched through the preferences and got nowhere. It … Continue reading
Computer Problems
I had computer issues on Friday. I had an old external drive that I had a bunch of files on. The drive is going slow so I think it is about to die. I needed to copy a bunch of the files from the external drive and on to a network drive. I thought it … Continue reading
