Macintosh/Apple Tips

 In this instructable I will show you how to do a few things with your apple computer that I had to learn the hard way.

All of which are very useful for the custom Windows user with his/her first mac like me.

This is my first instructable, so forgive the possible crudeness,

I am using a Leopard/Snow Leopard computer, this may be different for 10.4, I apologize for the lack of universalism

Skills Needed:
For starters you have to be confident in what your doing no matter How much you know about computers
The rest is pretty simple.. an apple computer

Step 1 Hidden Files

Alright, when I first got my apple I tried to move some hidden files to it from my windows machine to do maintenance on another machine.. well, apple doesn't make this quite as easy as windows. this is the best way I could find to show hidden files without installing aNother application, read on;

This is a very simple function if your not afraid to use it, simply open the terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal), copy "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder" without the quotes of course, and press enter

To reverse this simply change "TRUE" to "FALSE" which requires typing the whole command in because when it sees "killall Finder" it starts a new line.
Check out the illustrations for visual details

Let me know what you think, use this at your own risk, I take no responsibility if You use this wrong and destroy your computer.

The next trick is screen capture >

Comments

[JazzyTunes]

cool :)

[bishopdante]

Things like the options to not store ds store files over a network you'll find in TinkerTool, it's a must for OSX in my books.

Love that 6-4 trick! Exciting.