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I have been working with PHP scripts lately in Xcode, it have been doing what I need except for the times where people put HTML into PHP files and the syntax highlighting gets mess up in Xcode. I've seen other editors like Coda that recognises <?php and ?> and highlights them differently. Is...

I want my system (10.6.x) to run something like `/sbin/ifconfig lo0 alias 127.0.0.2` at start up. I notice that I can possibly put that command into /etc/rc.common, but there are not rc.local or something similar to that which can be found on an usual BSD system... and /etc/rc.common is...

I know weird question, but a lot of software are compiled for both 32-bit and 64-bit, e.g. $ file /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari (for...

Finder in Snow Leopard uses base 10: http://gizmodo.com/5349516/the-real-reason-you-got-back-so-much-hard-drive-space-with-snow-leopard If you plug in a 4 gig thumb drive it really would show up as 4 gig in Finder, isn't that nice? However the rest of the world, unfortunately, are still...

Are there anything like Visual Basic for OS X? I don't mean like the exact replica where you actually code in BASIC, but anything that allows you to quickly create a GUI and add some lines of code to make it do stuff? Sometimes I want to do something like that for writing a quick and dirty...

It is getting very annoying and somewhat unnecessary having to type in my password every time I want to switch to a different wireless network, does anyone know how do I turn this off?

Hi, I have a PPC Mac Mini running Leopard. Just wondering if there are virtualisation software for PPC Mac OS X... it doesn't have to do x86, I just want to run other open source OS on it, Linux, OpenBSD, etc... which all supports PPC. Thanks.

When sharing files between Mac and Windows over a network cable, it is very easy, simply use Samba in SysPref/Sharing. What about Mac to Mac and other UNIX OS? What would be the best way to share files? Just as above, one single network cable connecting the 2 computers. Thanks.

I noticed that there is an Airport slot in my iMac G3, anyone know exactly what kind of wireless card would it take? Would it work with the normal Cardbus/PCMCIA one? I want to install wireless to the iMac and now I had to choose between usb or cardbus... I guess cardbus would be the...

OS X comes with python 2.3... But I need 2.4, what is the best way to upgrade to 2.4? I could use MacPorts... but that installs a separate python in a different directory...

I just did a virus scan on / directory using clamav on my new Mac. (Brought last Tuesday.) # clamdscan / /private/var/vm//sleepimage: Flooder.DoS.Mixter FOUND /private/var/vm/sleepimage is infected with "Flooder.DoS.Mixter" I am a bit worried, is it because of the sleepimage is a sleep image...

I know it is the 15" MBP, so it is for both glossy and matte, not just glossy or vice versa, right?

To show hidden files (those start with a .) temporarily in Finder?

Ok so I need to create a new group and add an existing user (myself) to this group. This is how I usually do it on a nix box: groupadd -g 8080 mygroup usermod -G mygroup myuser But I can't find these commands on OS X... I tried looking at System Preference but can't find anything like...

I was trying to connect to a home file server in Finder via NFS, but got permission denied. So I used the Terminal: sudo mount_nfs -P homeServer:/share /mnt And that worked. However I'd like to do this in the Finder. This is a laptop and I don't always have access to my home server...

Steve Jobs has made it pretty clear in his open letter that Apple is against DRM and has worked to take some DRM out of iTMS. However, Mac being 'the multimedia platform', it is gotta to support HD-DVD & Blu-Ray some time in the future right? I have been wondering, how is Apple going to...

Does anyone know if I can add a timer in a movie clip using iMovie?

I had some PPC App worked some months ago, like StuffIt. I don't use PPC Apps regularly, so I am not sure what is the precise time when it stopped working. Today when I click on StuffIt, the Icon comes up in the Dock, and disappears instantly. I downloaded the new one which is an...

And MS need to pay 1.5B: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/technology/23patent.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Will Apple be next? :o

What about iTunes? Does it uses UTF-8 by default? I have a few French Albums in iTunes and when I tried to import them into a svn repository today it has 'problem' converting French names to UTF-8 encoding??? What's going on here???