Would you like just a little bit more screen real estate for your applications? Well, if you are running Mac OS X El Capitan you can now auto hide the menu bar. It works just like auto hide for the Dock, remaining hidden until you move your mouse to the edge of the screen. To…
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Archive for December, 2015
Show Hidden Files In Mac OS X Finder With This Command
By default, hidden files are, well, hidden in Finder on Mac OS X, and there is no method to enable viewing hidden files within the Preferences menu for Finder. But, there is a Terminal command you can use to enable viewing hidden files in Finder. In Terminal, type this command: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true After…
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How To: Transparent Terminal Window In Mac OS X
Two days ago, I showed you how to make a Windows 10 command prompt window transparent. Now I’ll show you how to make the Terminal window transparent in Mac OS X. 1. Open Terminal. 2. Click Preferences in the Terminal menu. 3. Click Profiles. 4. Click the + button on the bottom left to create…
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How To: Transparent Command Prompt In Windows 10
Say you have limited screen real estate, and you would prefer not to toggle between a command prompt and (for example) a browser tab. Maybe you are referencing command line instructions on a website and you would simply like to stay in the command prompt window and have it overlay the website. This can be…
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Finally, Apple Brings Mute and Pin Tabs To Safari
My browser of choice is Google Chrome. I like the cross-platform uniformity since I work on both Windows and Mac. However, Chrome is not exactly known to be miserly when it comes to battery consumption. So, a while back I experimented with using Safari instead of Chrome on my MacBook Air, and it did seem…
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Featured Beer: Review Of Troegs Mad Elf Ale
If you are looking for some fruity, high alcohol, complex, ruthless, holiday cheer in a bottle, then Mad Elf Ale is a seasonal craft beer for you. And this beer is not messing around! This tasty brew, with a mosaic of rich cherry and harmoniously sweet honey, will have you emptying a bottle in no time. But watch out,…
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How To Create And Manage Password Settings Objects (PSO)
With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced Fine-Grained Password policies which utilizes a new Active Directory object called Password Settings Object (PSO). These objects allow you to more easily create and assign password policies to subsets of users, albeit with a bit of an unpolished implementation method compared to the old method via group policy (GPO). If…
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Citrix XenApp Internet Explorer Hang-Crash UAC Fix
For several months an Internet Explorer 11 hang/crash issue plagued nearly half of the 15 load-balanced Citrix XenApp 6.0 virtual machines at our corporate headquarters. These servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. When users would click links in Outlook, nothing would happen (from their perspective). When users tried to launch the Internet Explorer (Citrix) published…
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