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How to share EVDO USB Modem connection over Airport WIFI on OS X ?
According to apple it should be as easy as going to System preference > Sharing turn on Web sharing then turn on internet sharing (setting the source interface and destination interface + Airport network name and password) &...

How to find out ip address of router
hello there. how can i find out what is the ip address of the router of my local area network? thank you. ...

How can I stop my Mac Pro RAID card from causing kernel panics?
I bought a RAID card for my 2009 Mac Pro. It was working fine until one of the drives failed and I replaced the drive. After replacing the failed drive with a new drive, the raid card is consistantly causing kernel panics after a period of 10-20mins of usage on every boot. Even after a complete r...

MacOSX: how much network traffic by each app? (free solution)
Possible Duplicate: How do I know how many bandwidth an individual application are consuming on Mac OS X? ...

gedit spell checker on osx
Hello, I just installed gedit and its spell checker on OSX. However, whenever I come to "Set Language", to set it to English so I can do spell checking, I get an empty list, and English does not appear there. In general, the spell checker does not work right now because it has no dict...

How to install Mac OS on non-Apple hardware?
Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to install Mac OS X on customized hardware? How to install Ma...

How to retrieve the absolute path of an arbitrary file from the OS X
I'm looking for a simple command that can be used within Bash to find the absolute and canonicalized path to a file on an OS X (similar to `readlink -f' under Linux). The following sample bash session describes a [fictitious] utility called `abspath' that...

Windows 7: Is it a bad idea to Share the entire 'Users' directory with Everyone?
I want to be able to peruse the Documents, Music and Pictures folders on my Windows 7 machine from my Macbook. The only way I could find to do this was to go the the Libraries, right-click Share With: Specific Users: Everyone, with Read/Write permissions. (I can't use Homegroups with a Mac AFAIK....

Selective Google Contact Sync with Address Book
Possible Duplicate: Syncing contact groups between Google and Address Book I'd like to be able to s...

How to get up and running immediately from a Time Machine backup and a borrowed computer.
Imagine me showing up at my friend's doorstep with a laptop in several charred pieces, an intact external drive with (phew) Time Machine backups, and a deadline in a few hours. "Quick," I say, "give me your laptop!" I plug the external drive in and have it acting like my own laptop (rest ...

osx shell terminates after using .
I have a shell script that changes directory and then runs. I want the directory change to be bubbled to the command prompt once the script terminates. So, I run it with: . script However, now when the script terminates, the wh...

Apple Airport Extreme multi station network problems
I have 2 Apple Time Capsules and one gigabit airport extreme for 3 stations total. All support 802.11a/n-802.11b/g/n. It is absolutely beyond me how to set this up effectively as a single wireless network. Here are some facts about the network I have: ...

can I set the name of a terminal to be the pwd in mac osx?
Possible Duplicate: Set the title of the terminal window to the current directory I have man...

How to use a MacMini and its monitor as a secondary monitor for a MacBook Pro
I found Synergy extends my keyboard and touchpad so I can seamlessly control the MacMini from my MacBook Pro, but that isn't quite what I want. I have a MacMini connected to 40+ inch HDTV as a media system. I'm looking for a way to use that 40+ inch HDTV wirelessly, through the M...

Group video calling between Mac OS X and Windows 7?
iChat can do group video chats well on OS X. It looks like Skype can do group video chats on Windows 7 now (but that's not in the Mac version yet). Is there something that will play nice with both platforms (along with good video quality)? ...

How to completely remove flash from MacOSX?
I would like to get rid of flash completely on my MacOSX machine. I don't use it, and it's a danger. I've never been more happy than using http://clicktoflash.com/, but I've realized I don't use flash outside of a browser anyway. Is there a wa...

How can I export all my Terminal.app settings from one Mac to another?
I want to set a group of terminal windows, each one with personalized colours, etc. How can I move the whole Terminal.app setting from one computer to another? Where are they stored? Can't see them in $HOME/Library/Application Support/ nor in /Library/Application Support/ ...

How to mount user-specific home directories on a Mac with multiple users?
Hello! I hope you experts can help me out on this one since I'm a newbie on Mac OS. We have a Windows domain, and it is easy to give each user access to their home directory (mapped at logon). Very recently, a few Macs (10.6.3) were added to the domain and I wonder...

How's VirtualBox compare to VMWare and Parallels, in terms of resource requirement?
For some reason, I need to boot Windows XP occasionally on my MacBook Air. Among VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion and Parallels, which one consumes the least resource from my MacBook (say, running IE and PowerPoint inside the Windows XP VM)? Thanks! ...

Can not create files in own user folder?
Hi, I installed OSX snowleopard new on my macbook. Now I have permission problems. I can not create a file as my own user in my own user folder. I also tried disk utility with the "Repair Disk Permissions" function, which doesn't help. Any ideas?...