Mac OS X Hacks (Paperback, 1st)

Credits
Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1. Files
1. Understanding and Hacking Your User Account
2. Taking the Bite Out of Backup
3. Backing Up on the Go
4. Dealing with Archives of Many Colors: .img, .sit, .tar, .gz
5. A Line Break Is a Line Break
6. Fiddling with Type/Creator Codes and File Extensions
7. Locking and Unlocking Files
8. Stubborn Trash, Stuck Images, and Jammed CDs
9. Aliases, Symlinks, and Hard Links
10. Recent Filenames
11. Inspecting the Contents of an .app Package
12. Opening Microsoft Word Documents Without Microsoft Word

Chapter 2. Startup
13. Getting a Glimpse of the Boot Process
14. Booting from Another Device
15. Turning Your Mac into a Hard Drive
16. Using Open Firmware Password Protection
17. OS X for This Old Mac

Chapter 3. Multimedia and the iApps
18. Top iChat Tips
19. AIM Alternatives
20. Printing to PDF or Bitmapped Image
21. Image Conversion in a Pinch
22. Top 10 iPhoto Tips
23. Make Your Own Documentary
24. From Slideshow to Video Presentation
25. Hijacking Audio from Mac Apps
26. Running Your Own Web Radio Station
27. Sharing Your Listening Preferences
28. Controlling iTunes with Perl
29. iCal Calling iTunes
30. Publishing and Subscribing to iCal Calendars
31. Using Bluetooth for SMS and Phone-Call Handling
32. iSync via Bluetooth

Chapter 4. The User Interface
33. Finding Your Way Back to the Desktop
34. Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
35. Putting Things in the Apple Menu
36. Keeping Your Snippets Organized
37. LaunchBar, a Dock Alternative
38. DockSwap, Another Dock Alternative
39. Tinkering with Your User Interface
40. Extending Your Screen Real Estate with Virtual Desktops
41. Top Screenshot Tips
42. Checking Your Mac's Pulse
43. Screensaver as Desktop
44. Dipping Your Pen into Inkwell
45. Speakable Web Services
46. Using AppleScript in Contextual Menus
47. Prying the Chrome Off Cocoa Applications

Chapter 5. Unix and the Terminal
48. Introducing the Terminal
49. More Terminal Tricks and Tips
50. Becoming an Administrator for a Moment
51. Editing Special Unix Files
52. Setting Shell Environment Variables
53. Scheduling with System Tasks and Other Events
54. Opening Things from the Command Line
55. Introducing and Installing the Mac OS X Developer Tools
56. Top 10 Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
57. Turning a Command-Line Script into an Application
58. Installing Unix Applications with Fink
59. Mirroring Files and Directories with rsync
60. Using CVS to Manage Data on Multiple Machines
61. Downloading Files from the Command Line
62. Software Update on the Command Line
63. Interacting with the Unix Shell from AppleScript
64. Running AppleScripts on a Regular Basis Automatically
65. Running Linux on an iBook

Chapter 6. Networking
66. Anatomy of an Internet Shortcut
67. Renewing Your DHCP-Assigned IP address
68. Sharing an Internet Connection
69. Creating a One-Wire Network
70. Secure Tunneling with VPN or SSH
71. Remotely Log In to Another Machine via SSH
72. Running Windows on and from a Mac
73. Sharing Files Between Mac and Windows PCs
74. Mounting a WebDAV Share
75. Mounting a Remote FTP Directory
76. Exchanging a File via Bluetooth
77. Using Your Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem
78. Setting Up Domain Name Service

Chapter 7. Email
79. Taming the Entourage Database
80. Using IMAP with Apple's Mail Application
81. Setting Up IMAP and POP Mail Servers
82. Getting sendmail Up and Running
83. Downloading POP Mail with fetchmail
84. Creating Mail Aliases

Chapter 8. The Web
85. Searching the Internet from Your Desktop
86. Saving Web Pages for Offline Reading
87. Reading Syndicated Online Content
88. Serving Up a Web Site with the Built-In Apache Server
89. Editing the Apache Web Server's Configuration
90. Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl
91. AppleScript CGI with ACGI Dispatcher
92. Turning on CGI
93. Turning on PHP
94. Turning on Server-Side Includes (SSI)
95. Turning on WebDAV
96. Controlling Web-Server Access by Hostname or IP Address
97. Controlling Web-Server Access by Username and Group
98. Directory Aliasing, Indexing, and Autoindexing

Chapter 9. Databases
99. Installing the MySQL Database
100. Installing the PostgreSQL Database

Index