I just updated the memory of my early 2009 iMac to 8GB. Now I can see a nice performance boost by using my Windows 7 VM for work.
Updated my iMac to 8GB RAM
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Category Archives: Mac OS X
Apple Xcode 4 beta preview 2
Apple today released Xcode 4 beta preview 2. I friend of my found very interesting default Credits if your creating a new project.
Thanks to @omnibyte
Solved: Cannot download File from IIS6 FTP
Today we a ticket which was escalated by the second level support to the engineering. A customer could not download, remove or rename the file via FTP. The Hosting is running on a Windows Server 2003 R2 with IIS6. After checking the file on the filesystem I saw that the filename had a space in before.
Normalfilename:
“filename.html”
Wrongfilename:
” filename.html”
You cannot really name a file like that with a windows machine. But Linux and Unix systems like Mac OS X allow this.
After renaming the file to a normal Windows filename, the customer you download the file again.
Btw you can simple rename the file with powershell
Rename-Item " filename.html" "newfilename.html"
How to lock a Mac Screen
I work often with my notebook at school or by customers, so I need something to quickly lock my screen for security reasons. There is an easy way to lock the screen of Mac OS X and also save battery life.
First check the checkbox for “Require password after sleep or screen saver begins”
Now I create a new active Screen Corner with “Put Display to Sleep”
No I can just move my cursor in the bottom left corner and my screen gets black. After I move my mouse or press a key I need to login again. But all programs run in the background.
Game Changer Safari 5
Apple just released version 5 of Safari. I work with Safari as my default browser since version 4. I use Safari because its one of the fastest and best integrated browsers out there. It’s not just the speed when you load a webpage, its how fast the browser feels if you open it or you open a new window or tab. It makes working so much easier.
The only thing I missed were extensions for it. Now Apple not just made Safari faster and added better Support for HTML5, they also added extensions. I could not be happier about that. Two days after the Safari 5 release there are a lot of extensions out there. You can find some on http://safariextensions.tumblr.com.
Btw, the integrated developer tools for web developers are just awesome. A lot of colleges in my company changed their default browser from Firefox, Chrome or even Internet Explorer to Safari 5.
