OS X Lion – Terminal Colours « DerekGourlay.com
“Having recently I upgraded my Mac to OS X Lion the first thing I noticed was my terminal’s color theme was no longer working properly! Prior to upgrading I was using a combination of Visor now replaced by TotalTerminal, SIMBL, and TerminalColors along with the IR_Black theme posted by Todd Werth as detailed in his blog entry A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable. As the method to solve my problem took a bit of searching and trial and error I am posting the process I went through in hopes of helping others whom may stumble upon this post.” — via OS X Lion – Terminal Colours « DerekGourlay.com.
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PDF Signing? Nice!
“Open up a PDF in Preview. Click the annotations button , then click the signature button , then hit “Create Signature from Built-in iSight”. Scribe your signature onto a white piece of paper, hold it up to your iSight, and bam: you’ve got a stampable version of your signature sitting in Preview. Mr. Printer, meet Mr. Trash Can.” – via Nine Things You Should Do After Installing OS X Lion | TechCrunch.
Fixing colors in the terminal app on OS X Lion : Henry Cipolla
“OS X Lion became available to everybody today. Yay. After installing it, I did the usual new-Mac-OS-install-what-broke? check and noticed that as soon as I ssh into any of my boxes I lose all colors in the terminal. Sad. Fortunately the fix is easy. Go to preferences inside the terminal, within the settings tab change “declare terminal as ‘xterm-256color’ to ‘xterm-color’. Things will be happy again.” — via Fixing colors in the terminal app on OS X Lion : Henry Cipolla.
CS5ServiceManager What?
As you might be experiencing yourself, the upgrade to Lion has not been as smooth as silk. The most annoying revelation is that for whatever reason, Adobe now figures they own my Lion based system and have decided, without permission to start launching all kinds of services and managers and what not… in true Adobe style.
This CS5ServiceManager.app is the one that really boggles the mind. I don’t know what it’s for, don’t much care, don’t really use Adobe products… so buh-bye.
$ sudo rm -f -r /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/CS5ServiceManager/CS5ServiceManager.app
The words of EMINEM come to mind, “[Adobe] you can get stomped by Obie, you [29] year old [bloated] [app] can blow me! You don’t know me, you’re too old let go its over, nobody listens to techno!”
Stop Adobe Update Manager from launching
“As you’ll soon be able to tell, I am annoyed with Adobe Update Manager, and thankfully I found a way to disable it completely. In case you didn’t know, Adobe Update Manager starts itself automatically on system launch and takes over your Mac while it sorts out whatever it does that I don’t want it to do, it’s the very definition of annoying.Unfortunately, Adobe doesn’t make this easy for the novice user, but bear with me and follow the steps exactly and you’ll disable the update manager from launching on it’s own.” — via Stop Adobe Update Manager from launching.
Mac Mini Vault – Apple TV Webserver.
“One of the fun projects going on at Mac Mini Vault is our Apple TV webserver. As much as we’d love to see how many Apple TV’s we could mount into a data center cabinet, it will never be a sustainable service to offer. This project was a fun way to see how far we could take the A4 powered Apple TV. The Apple TV is running iOS 4.2.2 obviously jailbroken with lighttpd for a web server. You can see the webpage we set up by visiting atv.macminivault.com. We’ll keep an eye on the CPU load and watch the analytics to record how much traffic the Apple TV receives.” — via Apple TV Webserver..
Again, some of those on twitter know me all too well. Thanks (again) to @DEVi8 for showing me this one.
Only a Geek Could Love ViTunes
“ViTunes lets you control and navigate iTunes from the comfort of Vim. Benefits:control iTunes without leaving Vim, where one is probably in a state of productive blissavoid using the mouse or trackpad; keystrokes get you there fastercontrol iTunes from another computer via ssh session, across the room or across an oceanlet multiple people control one instance of iTunes over ssh howcontrol iTunes from a Linux clientViTunes is pronounced vee-eye-tunes.” – via vitunes.
This one was passed along from @DEVi8 who knows me too well.