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Index
Mac Hacks
A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
Preface
How to Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Guest Hackers
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
1. Before You Hack
Hack 1. Create a Great Backup
What Makes a Good Backup?
Time Machine
Backing Up with Disk Utility
Hack 2. Create a Bootable Flash Drive
Hack 3. Partition that Drive Nondestructively
Beyond the Hack
Hack 4. Get to Know Your User Account
Turning Your Administrator Account into a Standard Account
Enabling the Root User
Hack 5. Home Folder to Go
What Your Home Folder Means to You
Setting Up Your Portable Drive
Transferring your user account
Two Home folders or a Home folder to go?
Keeping everything synced
Using Your Home Folder on the Go
Hack 6. Fun with PLIST
PLIST Files for Hackers
Hack 7. Troubleshooting Mac OS X
Misbehaving Applications
An application stops responding
The Finder stops responding
Force quitting greedy processes
Startup Problems
Your Mac beeps at you instead of starting
Your hard drive is making noises
Startup troubleshooting
Reset your PRAM
2. Mountain Lion Hacks
Hack 8. Copy the Mountain Lion Installer to a Flash Drive
Hack 9. Resurrect Web Sharing in Mountain Lion
Automating Apache
Hack 10. Make Notification Center Less Annoying
A Shortcut for Notification Center
Make Notification Center Less Intrusive
Truly Killing Notification Center
Hacking the Hack
Hack 11. Quick Hacks for Mountain Lion
Make Those Keys Repeat
Turn Off Autocorrect
Reveal Your Library Folder
Get Save As Back the Way You Expect It
Turn Off Resume
Hack 12. A Clean Install of Mountain Lion
Performing the Clean Install
Clean Install with Two Macs
Clean Install with One Mac
3. Customize Your OS X Experience
Hack 13. Tame Your Browsers
The Road to Flash-less Happiness
Disable Flash
Uninstall Flash
Trick sites into not needing Flash
Open Safari Pages in Chrome
All Your Bookmarks Everywhere
Help Safari Get its RSS Groove Back
Safari Reading List
Hack 14. Blog with Your Mac
Step 1: Why Are You Here?
Step 2: Get Set Up
Step 3: Start Blogging
Step 4: Make Blogging Easier
Get a bookmarklet
Get the full Mac blogging experience with MarsEdit
Finder: The Mac Blogger’s Secret Weapon
Hack 15. Host a Web Page on Your Mac (and Get at Your Files Anytime)
Do You Have the Bandwidth?
Make a Web Page
Fake a Static IP
Extending the Hack
Hack 16. Change the Startup Sound
Using Terminal Commands: A Better Way?
Hack 17. Full Screen for (Almost) Any App
Hack 18. Create Custom Icons
Changing Icons the Easy Way: Cut and Paste
Undoing the Hack
Designing Your Own Icons
Generating the image
Composing the icon
4. Hacks for a More Informative Mac
Hack 19. Quit the Finder
Undoing the Hack
Hack 20. Move a Widget to the Desktop
Quit Dashboard for Real
Unhacking the Hack
Hack 21. Turn Your Desktop into a Fount of Useful Info
5. Make It Automatic
Hack 22. Getting Things Done with AppleScript
Creating the Script
Hacking the Hack
Hack 23. Create a Service with Automator
Hack 24. Customize the Services Menu
Find the Service You Need
Find and Uncompress the File
Move the File
Using the Service
Adding a Keyboard Shortcut
Hack 25. Speed Things Up with Keybindings
Hack 26. Eject iTunes
Step 1: Quit iTunes
Step 2: Tell Automator to Wait
Step 3: Eject Your Drive
Step 4: Save Your Utility
Step 5: Make Your Utility Useful
6. Fun with Unix
Hack 27. Harmless Unix Tricks
Hack 28. Install Homebrew
Prepare for Homebrew
Install Homebrew
Hack 29. Get Things Done Safely with the Command Line
Navigating Around Your Mac
Creating Directories and Working with Files
Fancy Command-Line Moves
Hack 30. Manipulate Images with ImageMagick
Hack 31. Customize the Dock with Terminal
Highlight that Item
Get Rid of the Glass
Add a Recent Applications Stack
Organize Your Dock with Spaces
Have the Dock Display Only Running Apps
7. Lock Down that Mac
Hack 32. Achieve Network Anonymity
Control Those Cookies
Hack 33. Monitor Your Network Traffic
Using Mac OS X’s Firewall
More Information with Private Eye
Hack 34. Protect Sensitive Files
The Quick and Easy Way: Bury It in Your Library
Make It Disappear
Hiding Files in a Disk Image
It’s Better to Be Better
Hack 35. Encrypt a USB Drive
Using Your New Drive
Beyond the Hack
Hack 36. Add Physical Security Measures to Your Mac
Security Cables
Screensaver/Sleep Password
Login Password
Firmware Password
8. Other OSes
Hack 37. Run a Minecraft Server on Your Mac
Configuring Minecraft
Going Further
Hack 38. Play Wii Games on Your Mac
Hack 39. Manage Your Devices with Profile Manager
Preparing for Profile Manager
Setting Up Profile Manager
Enrolling into Profile Manager
Automating Enrollment and Random Management Tips
Device Management
Conclusion
9. Networking Hacks
Hack 40. Optimize Your WiFi
Make Wi-Fi Diagnostics Easily Available
Hack 41. Secure Your Wireless Network
Basic Steps
Disable SSID Broadcast
Restrict MAC Addresses
Add WPA2
Unhacking the Hack
Hack 42. Use Your Mac as an Access Point
Pulling Off the Hack
10. Multimedia Hacks
Hack 43. Turn Your Mac into a DVR
Get the Apps
Install TVShows 2
Hack 44. Master Torrents
Share Torrents
Hack 45. Move Your iTunes Library
Hack 46. Get Free and Better-Sounding Music for iTunes
Make Music Sound Better with iTunes’ Equalizer
11. Hack Some Hardware
Hack 47. Have Your Mac Automagically Recognize You
The Hardware You Need
The Software You Need
Mac, Meet Phone
Preparing Bluetooth Proximity Tasker
Putting It in Action
Hack 48. Squeeze Some Speed out of an Aging MacBook Pro
Preparing for the Hack
Hack 49. Give Your Polycarbonate Mac a Dye Job
Caveats
Warnings
Disclaimer
Supplies
Process
Finished Project
Hack 50. Get that iMac out of the Way
Removing the iMac’s Stand
Installing the Adapter
Installing the Articulated VESA Mount
Hack 51. Use a Wiimote with Your Mac
Hack 52. Turn Your MacBook into a Tablet
Absolution of the Author
Supplies
Caveats
Procedure
The MessagePad in Use
Index
About the Author
Colophon
Copyright
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