I have a long-winded question about deleting zombie messages from Apple's mail.app. [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 4 answers

OSX Leopard 10.5.2 update - somehow aborted, now my macbook pro is caught in limbo. [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 17 answers

I would basically like to rip off, wholesale, some command-line script which will provide me a countdown -- only in days. No years, months, minutes, or seconds. Unfortunately, adapting an existing script is beyond my ken. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I go about logging in, remotely and with something like VNC, to Mac OSX, while also (at the same time) using the computer locally as a different user? Is this possible? Is there a different way to do this? (I already have ssh all set up, if that'll help.)
posted on Aug 6, 2007 - 6 answers

I need to change custom paper sizing back to inches from centimeters in OS X. [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2006 - 1 answers

In an effort to increase productivity, I've been trying to escape my all-too-familiar laptop with all its enticing shortcuts and bookmarks and start using my school's sexy G5 workstations. How can I install teTeX or some other LaTeX package on these babies without root? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2006 - 9 answers

Ever since upgrading to QuickTime 7 and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), I've noticed that apparently what I think is the H.264 and H.267 codecs play very choppily on my machine. [more inside]
posted on Nov 2, 2005 - 11 answers

How can I use scripting/OS X hacks to notify me in a sweet manner when jobs on remote machines complete? [more inside]
posted on Oct 15, 2005 - 17 answers

Six characters, in search of a way to replace them
I have a series of files whose names I'd like to edit by taking out part of the name and replacing it but the part I'd like to remove from each file name is different. [more]
posted on Jan 23, 2005 - 17 answers

Where'd my iDisk go?
I was uploading some graphics to my iDisk today and noticed that the .Pictures folder was empty. That shouldn't be. [There's more, but not on my iDisk.]
posted on Jan 10, 2005 - 6 answers

My sister sent me something using her cell phone, and I can't play it. [you will find more if you go inside]
posted on May 4, 2004 - 6 answers

A question about using Folder Action scripts in Mac OS X and tinkering with them to get them to do what you want. [more]
posted on Mar 31, 2004 - 8 answers