Secret OSX's minimize effect
This is new to me:
To enable the suck effect, enter the following commands in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck
Killall Dock
OSX’s Hidden Suck Animation [MacMegasite]
How to remove dot-underscore files
[Leopard only] Macworld offer a tip on how to remove dot-underscore files that usually appear on a USB flash drive.
Prior to 10.5, you had to manually delete them on the other system, or use Terminal trickery to remove them on the Mac prior to copying. As of 10.5, though, you can just use the dotclean command on the directory in question. Type dotclean /path/folder to join the dot-underscore files with their parent files.
Leopard’s Unix tricks [Macworld]
How to create a US iTunes Store account sans US credit card
I have a great tip for anyone who wish to purchase music, TV shows or just want to have the album’s artworks for your music but don’t have an iTunes Store account. Just follow these steps and you’ll have a US iTunes store account in no time.
You Suck at Photoshop: Select Color Range
This is the fifth installment of You Suck at Photoshop series.
You Suck at Photoshop
These are very funny and useful Photoshop tutorials from Donnie Hoyle.
Distortion, warp and layer effects
CocoaKuler
[Mac OSX Leopard only] CocoaKuler let you explore and choose color harmonies directly from the kuler site, by adding a new tab to the standard Apple color picker. You can grab CocoaKuler here for free.
Deploying Typo from scratch on a MediaTemple (dv) 3.0 2
Things you’ll need
When you first get your dv server account, you have to get root access and install the developer tools. You’ll also have to enable ssh to your server. If you’re going to deploy Typo on subdomain.domain.com, don’t forget to create a subdomain on Plesk and update your DNS record on Media Temple Account Center.
The following guide will assume that you will deploy Typo on blog.domain.com. You’ll also have to replace domain.com with your actual domain.
Install Rubygems
ssh root@yourdomain.com
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17190/rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
tar -xzvf rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.2
ruby setup.rb
I can’t install Typo through gem using -y flag. I always get some errors with squlite3, so I have to install SQLite first.
Install SQLite
cd ..
wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-3.5.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf sqlite-3.5.4.tar.gz
cd sqlite-3.5.4
./configure
make
make test
make install
