Big book of Apple hacks

Bigger in size, longer in length, broader in scope, and even more useful than our original Mac OS X Hacks, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks to get the most out of Mac OS X Leopard, as well as the new line of iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV. With 125 entirely...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seibold, Chris (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : 'Reilly Media 2008.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Hacks series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627639806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; PREFACE; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Acknowledgments; We'd Like to Hear from You; 1 BEFORE YOU HACK; HACK 01: Back Up Now with Disk Utility; Backing Up with Disk Utility; That's Great, But I've Got One Mac and No External Hard Drive!; HACK 02: Create an Emergency Bootable Flash Drive; Creating a Bootable Disk; Using the Emergency Boot Disk; HACK 03: Install Developer Tools; What You'll Get; Installing Xcode; HACK 04: Understand Your User Account; What's in a Name?; Your Home Directory; Who's the Boss?
  • Deleting an AccountHACK 05: Become an Administrator for a Moment; Desktop Root; Command-Line Root; Enabling the Root Account; HACK 06: Behold the Power of PLIST; PLIST Files for Hackers; 2 HACKS FOR THE NET; HACK 07: Change Your Browser; Firefox; Google Browser Sync; Greasemonkey; Trim Firefox's fat on Intel Macs; Opera; Shiira: A WebKit-Based Safari Alternative; Change Your Default Browser; HACK 08: Safari: More Than Meets the Eye; Safari Tricks; Safari Add On: Saft-The Do-It-All Sidekick; HACK 09: Browser Agnosticism; Portable Passwords; Liberate Your Bookmarks
  • HACK 10: Enable Safari Debug MenuHACK 11: Roll Your Own Web Server; Define Your Needs; Using Pre-OS X Macs; Using OS X Hardware; Getting Your Domain; Opening Your Router So Your Web Server Can Peek Out; Setting Up Your Web Server on Older PowerPC Equipment; Pulling It Off with OS X; HACK 12: Two Ways to Reset Safari; HACK 13: Ditch That Hidden Data; Viewing Metadata; Ditching the Metadata; HACK 14: Scrape the Web for Images; HACK 15: User-Initiated Privacy for Web Applications; 3 HACKING MAC OS X; HACK 16: Know Your Cats; HACK 17: Kill Dashboard; Unhacking the Hack
  • HACK 18: Move a Widget to the DesktopLater; HACK 19: Turn Your Desktop into a Font of Useful Information; HACK 20: Tame the Finder; Undoing the Hack; HACK 21: Use That Software Restore Disk on (Almost) Any Mac; Target-Disk Mode Approach (Not 100% Safe); Installation of Single Packages (Safe but Complicated); Change the Requirements (Safe); HACK 22: Get Things Done with Automator; Quit All Applications Workflow; Access the Media Browser; Watch Me Do; Locating Your Workflows; HACK 23: A Context Menu for Moving Files
  • HACK 24: Free Up Gigabytes of Space on Your Hard Drive (and Never Miss the Data)Removing Unneeded Language Files; Getting Rid of Unneeded Printer Drivers; Slimming Down iPhoto; HACK 25: Create an Encrypted USB Drive; Getting Started; Using Your New Image; HACK 26: Capture That Screen; Capturing the Whole Screen; Capturing a Portion of the Screen; The Next Level in Screenshots; HACK 27: Launch in a Different Way; LaunchBar; Quicksilver; Spotlight; Plenty More Where That Came From; HACK 28: Meet the Dictionary: Your Hidden Wikipedia Browser; 4 COMMAND-LINE FUN; HACK 29: Meet Unix
  • HACK 30: Getting Things Done with the Command Line