As I haven’t posted in a while, I thought I would publish a few tips and tricks for Apple computers.
\nAll of the tips below are done inside Terminal.<\/p>\n
I find most of them useful, don’t blindly copy and paste unless you understand what you’re doing.
\nSome of them can be accomplished in the OSX Gui, some cannot.<\/p>\n
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Getting access to the Beta’s for OS X softwareupdate -l<\/code><\/p>\n Accessing all available beta’s via Software update (on Yosemite)<\/strong> softwareupdate -l<\/code><\/p>\n Resetting Software Update catalog to the defaults (eg if you used one of the above 2 catalogs)<\/strong> Making TextEdit default to plain text mode for new documents<\/strong> Change the default Finder location to your home folder (~\/)<\/strong> Make the save panel expanded by default<\/strong> Turning off the warning when changing file extensions<\/strong> Check for software updates daily<\/strong> Show the icons for drives, network drives, and usb disks on the desktop<\/strong> Disable creation of .DS_Store files on network shares<\/strong> Unhide the user Library folder<\/strong> Enable AirDrop over Ethernet and on unsupported Macs<\/strong> As I haven’t posted in a while, I thought I would publish a few tips and tricks for Apple computers. All of the tips below are done inside Terminal. I find most of them useful, don’t blindly copy and paste unless you understand what you’re doing. Some of them can be accomplished in the OSX […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[524,511,510],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-useful-info","tag-apple","tag-terminal","tag-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAccessing public beta’s via Software update (on Yosemite)<\/strong>
\nsudo defaults write \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL https:\/\/swscan.apple.com\/content\/catalogs\/others\/index-10.10beta-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz<\/p>\n
\nsudo defaults write \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL https:\/\/swscan.apple.com\/content\/catalogs\/others\/index-10.10seed-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz<\/p>\n
\nsudo softwareupdate \u2013clear-catalog
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.TextEdit RichText -int 0
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTarget -string \"PfLo\" && \\
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTargetPath -string \"file:\/\/${HOME}\"
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate ScheduleFrequency -int 1<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder ShowExternalHardDrivesOnDesktop -bool true && \\
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder ShowHardDrivesOnDesktop -bool true && \\
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder ShowMountedServersOnDesktop -bool true && \\
\ndefaults write com.apple.finder ShowRemovableMediaOnDesktop -bool true<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true<\/code><\/p>\n
\nchflags nohidden ~\/Library<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces -bool true<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"