The 10.6.5 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers
address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
address stability and performance of graphics applications and games
resolve a delay between print jobs
address a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an AirPort Extreme
resolve an issue when dragging contacts from Address Book to iCal
address an issue where dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide
resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary
improve performance of MainStage on certain Mac systems
resolve spacing issues with OpenType fonts
improve reliability with some Bluetooth braille displays
resolve a VoiceOver issue when browsing some web sites with Safari 5
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4250.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Rumor : iPhone / iPad / iPod iOS 4.2 update will become available Friday.

I was rearranging my Mac Dock and I found this nice article about “Adding Spaces to the Dock”.

To add a Blank Icon (Space) to the dock in Mac OS X, open up Terminal.app and enter this. Enter it as many times as you want spaces. Error on too many.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'
killall Dock

To remove them, just drag them up and out of the Dock like any other icon. To move them around, click and drag.
Source: Add Spaces to Dock in OS X

Transmit, the popular Mac FTP / SFTP / Amazon s3 Client version 4 is out with a near-total rewrite, one brand new interface, over 45 new features, up to 25 times the speed, and one very cool surprise, According to Panic.

You can get a full version for $34 or an Upgrade for $19 at Transmit website.

To do so, open your terminal under Applications –> Utilities.

Then type : open -e ~/.profile (The file will open in the graphic text editor)

Go to the end of the file and add the red text:

echo -n “Current Time: “ (To Show The Current Time)
date

echo “Disk Usage:” (To Show the Disk Usage)
df -h

echo “Hello $USER “ (To Get an hello message of the Login user)

alias ls=’ls -G’ (To make ls run in Graphic mode – list with colors)

If you also want to change your prompt you can set the variable PS1 by adding export PS1=”your setting ” to .profile.

here is mine:

export PS1="\e[0m\#.\e[0;31m@\t\e[0;36m[\u@\h \e[35m\w\e[0;36m] \e[0m\$ "

and it looks like that:  1.@11:50:26[User@User-MacBook /Users] $

I know that is looks scary, but it's pretty simple:

all the \e[x;xm are for colors (range is: 40-47;30-37) you should play with this one

\u will count the prompt lines for you

\t is for time (you can also use \@ For am/pm OR \T for 12H format)

\u is for current user

\h is for host (you can also use \H for full host name)

\w is for full working directory (\W will give you only the current directory)

This is just a simple example, you can do much more.

****For most linux systems the file would be .bashrc instead of .profile

Say hello to the MacHeist nanoBundle. It’s the same bundle of quality Mac software that you know and love… but it’s entirely FREE.

Download it. Enjoy it. And tell your friends about it, because it’ll be gone in under a day, never to return again. Grab it now!

Grab one while it last

This App make the finder showing Hidden and System files.
If Hidden files set to ON then it will turn it OFF.
Very good to anyone how works with Apache and needs to modify .htaccess files

**** Update: One of the readers brought to my attention that the version I posted on the site doesn’t supported by Snow Leopard.

I already fixed it and will upload it soon!

* Thanks To David

Download Here: Hidden Files Control (Free)

First Thing, Backup Backup Backup !!!!

You Can use SuperDuper Or any Partition Cloner

Make sure that your backup drive is the same size or bigger then your current drive.

1. Connect your backup hard drive to your Mac.

2. If you’re using SuperDuper Using the default option of “Backup – all files” will automatically create a boot-able backup, one which you can later boot to as if it were your internal drive. This is great if you want to test something, have a fully cloned system to revert to, or in this case, to copy to your new drive without loosing a single setting. Click the Copy Now button, and then click Copy in the next dialogue box.

3. Sit back and wait. Once the copy is complete, you will have what’s known as a full boot-able backup. Now you can do whatever you want to your internal hard drive – your data is safety stored on your new backup drive! Just to make sure, it’s always worth booting to that drive and checking that everything went according to plan. It only takes a minute, and it’s better to do it now rather than find it didn’t work.

4. Restart your Mac. While it starts, hold the Option key until a display appears. This asks you to choose a hard drive to boot from. Clicking on your backup, and then clicking on the arrow below it, will tell your Mac to boot to the backup. You’ll know that you have successfully booted to your backup rather than your internal drive because the backup will now appear at the top of your Finder window side panel, like so:

5.Now that you have everything backed up, it’s time to install your new hard drive!

Replacing Your MacBook’s Hard Drive

In order to protect yourself against ESD and static electricity in general, it’s always a good idea to ground yourself

For more information about ESD cause and prevention, see the Wikipedia article.

Replacing a MacBook’s Hard Drive

1. Turn your MacBook upside-down, with battery side near you. Use a coin to turn the lock slot to the unlock position. This will allow you to remove the battery.

2. Inside the bay, there is a small L-shaped bracket running down the left and far edges. This is removable with a Phillips #0 screwdriver. Unscrew the three screws along the far (longer) face. Don’t be fooled: these screws are not removable from the plate itself. Once unscrewed, the plate should pull out very easily.

Depends on your mac, it should be pretty easy to replace the hard drive.

3. Fit the battery back in its slot, and then use the coin to lock the cover in position.

Turn your MacBook over. You’re ready to continue onto the next section!

Restoring Your MacBook

This section is primarily aimed at those who have created a boot-able backup and would like to restore from that backup. This will allow you to get back to where you were with your last hard drive – all of your software updates, data, and music will be there.

Preparing Your New Hard Drive

The first thing you will want to do is to turn on your computer, but at present the drive you have just installed won’t show up on your desktop (assuming you could boot to a desktop). First, the hard drive needs to be formatted and partitioned, and doing so from a backup is very simple.

As soon as you hit the power button, you must hold down the Option (or Alt) key. This will produce a display offering the option to boot to all boot-able devices connected to the MacBook. There will likely be only one: the backup you made to your external drive. Select it, and then click the arrow button to continue to boot from this device.

Partitioning Your New Drive

Once your Mac has booted to the desktop, you’ll probably see a message asking if you wish to initialize a device. If this does appear, you will choose to Initialize, but if it doesn’t you will want to launch Disk Utility, which can be found in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder.

Using the Options button at the bottom, make sure that GUID Partition Table is selected (this is the new standard by which Intel Mac hard drives can be found as boot-able devices, which you will want as it will be your main hard drive) and click OK. Now click Partition, and when the dialogue box appears, click Partition again. Wait a few seconds while you watch the blue progress bar flash from left to right, and then notice that the name you selected for your drive is now displayed below the manufacturers name in the left-hand column. You now have yourself a usable, formatted, partitioned drive. Easy, huh?

Restoring from your Backup

Now you can close Disk Utility. SuperDuper! will recognize the new drive, so you open SuperDuper!. Using the same settings as before (only in reverse), you can restore the backup you are currently using to the new drive. You will want to copy from your external hard drive to MacBook HD which will also now appear on your desktop. Once the transfer is complete, you’re ready to go!

Reboot your MacBook once again, holding the Option (or Alt) key to choose the internal hard drive. Click the arrow button to boot from it. You’re done!

If You Don’t Have a Boot-able Backup, or Wish to Use Your Restore Disks

Start by turning on the MacBook and inserting Restore Disk 1. As soon as you hit the power button, you must hold down the Option (or Alt) key. This will allow you to boot to all boot-able devices connected to the MacBook. There will likely be only one: the restore disk you just inserted (it may take a minute to show up. If it doesn’t, try holding the power button until the machine turns off, and power it back on again holding the Option key). Select it, and then click the arrow button to continue to boot from this device.

Once the machine has booted to the Restore Disk, you can choose your language. After the next screen appears, you will notice a familiar looking Menu Bar across the top of the screen. Under the Utilities menu, you should see the Disk Utility application. Selecting this option will allow you to follow the same instructions for performing this procedure as if you were booted to a backup drive.

Once you have partitioned your drive, you can close Disk Utility. Your new hard drive will now be fully recognized by your MacBook. Continue to walk through the on-screen instructions for installing Mac OS X to complete the process. If you want to really show off, you can click the Customize button in the bottom of the window part way through this process to choose not to install certain bundled applications, language packs you won’t use, and so on. Deselect all of them to slim down the space required to install Mac to a mere 2GB! This is the real benefit of the fresh installation over using SuperDuper! to restore, however, you can always use the Migration Assistant to recover your user account to a fresh installation if you previously backed up using SuperDuper!

Congratulations on your new hard drive, and good luck with filling all the empty space!

Inspired by macinstruct

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.

(From FluidApp.com)

Go Download The App From http://fluidapp.com/ and create yourself a customized App.

Here is a simple Example of creating an Yahoo Mac Application

To do that, Take a look at my Video.

I attached a script to my Downloads folder as a folder action. First, I typed the following script into Script Editor:

[applescript]

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving downloadFile
tell application “Finder”
repeat with theFile in downloadFile
if the name of theFile ends with “.dmg” then
move theFile to folder “THE_FOLDER_YOU_CREATED” of folder “YOUR_USER_NAME” of folder “Users” of startup disk
end if
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to

[/applescript]

I then saved it as MoveDmg.scpt in /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/ folder. I then created an DMG folder in my Home directory. After that, I right-clicked on my Downloads folder and selected More -> Enable Folder Actions. Right-clicking again, I selected More -> Attach a Folder Action, and chose my saved script in the Choose A File dialog box.

To make your files list in color just type ls -G, or make ‘ls’  show colors by default, this is how:

Video Version:

Text Version:

1. Start Terminal.

2. Type cd ~

3. Type nano .profile

4. Add the line alias ls = ‘ls -G’

5. Press ctrl + x to exit.

6. Press Y, then Enter to save the file.

7. Restart the terminal.

Google Chrome doesn’t provide an option to load Incognito by default so I created one.

Windows

If you’re using windows

1. Place a Google Chrome shortcut on the desktop.
2. Rename the shortcut to Incognito.
3. Right click on the shortcut and select ‘Properties’.
4. On the ‘Target’ field add an –incognito to the end of program path. (Note: Make sure there is a space between the last apostrophe and the dash)
5. Your incognito browser is now ready for launch.

Mac

If you’re using Mac

1.Set google.com as your home page

2.Open Apple Script Editor and copy paste that script:

tell application "Google Chrome"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
tell process "Google Chrome"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
click menu item "New Incognito Window"
end tell
end tell

tell menu bar item "Window"
tell menu "Window"
click menu item "Google"
end tell
end tell

tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
click menu item "Close Window"
end tell
end tell

end tell
end tell
end tell

3. Compile and Save, You’re done.

Here is the code. Replace PIN_HERE and GV_NUMBER with your Google Voice pin # and your google voice number.

Enter this in Script Editor then compile and run:
[applescript]
set mymypin to “PIN_HERE”
set gvnumber to “GV_NUMBER”

tell application “Address Book”
repeat with thePerson in people
set nums to the phones of thePerson
repeat with num in nums
if the (label of num) contains “GV” then
tell thePerson
delete num
end tell
else
set gvPhone to {label:”", value:”"}
set label of gvPhone to “GV” & the (label of num)
set value of gvPhone to gvnumber & “,” & mypin & “,2,” & the (value of num)
tell thePerson
make new phone at end of phones with properties gvPhone
end tell
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
[/applescript]
Use that method until Google will release API for Google Voice

I attached text and video instructions.

To start it all you have to do is:

1. Open Terminal

2. type: “emacs” and wait for the emacs screen to load

3. hit “esc” then type “x”

4. type “tetris” (lowercase letters)

5.Enter

A Tetris game will load in the window and you can play it by using the arrow keys & space to control the falling blocks.