Terminal windows are usually pretty boring, but you can make them more personal by adding a welcome message and  changing some colors.

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

This update will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during system startup and wake from sleep on your Mac. This update works with the following EFI updates:

iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.4
Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.2
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.4
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8

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

I just found out that Snow Leopard have a pretty cool new feature.

You can enable / disable the view of . files (Hidden Files) in an open dialog box by pressing CMD+SHIFT+ . (Period)

Unfortunately it works ONLY by using the open option while working on an Application.

If you want to Enable / Disable Hidden Files anywhere in the finder check my small app Hidden Files Control

Like most, I’m getting everyday tons of emails, I’m not saving all the addresses, but maybe I should.

I figured that if I’ll want to promote something one day I can use that list, so I wrote a script that captures all the email address to a file.

I’m using Macintosh Apple Mail and using the script editor.

This Is the Script: