Code Perspective

Mac Life has a great video displaying some of Apple’s major releases over the years. Awesome video to watch if you’re a big mac fan!

Enjoy!

My last Mac OS X tip(found Here) allows you to enable hidden folders in Mac OS X. Now if you have hidden folders enabled then you may be wondering what the .DS_Store file is in absolutely every single directory you go to?

The .DS_Store file is actually the way that spotlight is able to find things on your computer as quickly as it can. It indexes your directories whenever something changes, and that’s why when you plug in an external drive, it takes a while for spotlight to find items on it. This is because the .DS_Store file has to index the entire drive before spotlight can start finding anything. This means absolutely every single directory on the drive as well. So beware large drives can take a long time to index.

Hope this helps.

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Ever wondered what’s actually in the application you’re installing on your mac? Or maybe you just want to access some folders that are hidden to configure some options. It’s actually quite simple to do. Here are the few steps necessary to enable hidden folder view in Mac OS X.

1. Open the Terminal(Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
2. Type defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES into the terminal window and press enter.
3. Restart your computer or simply force quit the finder(restarting the finder)

That’s it, you now should see all the hidden folders in you finder.

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If you’ve ever downloaded a linux distro in the form of an ISO disc image, you may be wondering how to burn it to a DVD in order to make it bootable. So here are the steps for burning an ISO disc image to a DVD. All you need to get started is a blank DVD, and a linux distro ISO image.

1. Insert the blank disc into your mac. When it pops up asking how you want to open it, choose finder.
2. Open Disc Utility(Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility), and you should see the dvd on the left hand menu bar.
3. Choose File > Open Disk Image and you should see the mounted disk image on the left hand menu bar below the dvd you inserted.
4. Click on the ISO file(not the mounted drive) and then click burn at the top left corner of the disk utility window.
5. Follow the onscreen instructions and choose the options you want to burn the disc with.
6. Click “Burn”

That’s it, the disc should start burning and eject on it’s own unless otherwise specified. It’s slightly hidden but pretty straight forward once you know where to go.

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