Stuff I compiled this info as a general useful thing. I update it whenever I get around to it. If you want to add something, ask something, dispute something, or report a defunct link, please contact me. NEWLY ADDED STUFF (stuff stays here for about a week): Hyper Jeff - An allaround great OSX Page OSX Keyspan USB-->Serial Adapter Driver hints: Java and Tomcat on the Mac

Upgrading to OSX 4 ways to configure harddrives: --OSX right on top of OS 9 benefit: don't have to erase drive drawback: you can lose it all --Partition drive benefit: More stable maybe (?) drawback: must wipe drive first --2 separate drives (1 system, 1 media) benefit: good for video/sound mavens who like to keep media clean. Never lose media and system both. drawback: pain in my ass --2 separate drives (1 OS9, 1 OSX) benefit: you'll never lose both systems. Good for serious tweakers. drawback: also a pain in my ass. note: I just have the two right on top of each other and they run fine. I keep my video on an external drive. Memory: It never hurts to have more. I've heard at least 10 gb harddrive and 256 mb ram. I will add more later. I have to do my thesis now. --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X PART 1 The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X PART 2 OS X Zone FAQ

The Basics... If an app is... Carbonized - runs in OS9 and OSX (ie. Stuffit, FCP 3.0) Native/Cocoa - runs only in OSX (ie. Office:mac, Photoshop 7) Classic - runs only in OS9 (ie. MAX) Java - runs wherever you've got the right version to run it. Currently running... OSX - v10.1.4 OS9 - v9.2.2 --------------------------------------------------------- Other Good OSX Guides: Hyper Jeff - A great allaround OSX Page Apple's OSX Home Max OSX Hints OSX FAQ --------------------------------------------------------- Apple: Apple's OSX page The Architecture of OSX Troubleshooting Mac OSX O'Reilly: O'Reilly - Getting Your Feet Wet With Aqua

Interface Dock --To add: Drag icons in --To delete: Drag icons out (Poof!) Folders --Apple-b to Hide/Reveal Folder Toolbar --Apple-i to change privileges --View/Customize Toolbar to change what is at the top of folders --Can drag files into Folder Toolbar to be shortcuts Get Info --Apple-i --can use to see info, set privileges, open with which app. etc. Force-Quit --option-apple-esc --actually works NOTES: Everything is pdf based Can create PDF file from any app. Print/Preview/Save as PDF There is now a real undo Put the OSX apps in the OSX folder Put the OS9 apps in the OS9 folder --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: Mac OS X: Another View Apple: Mac OS X 10.1: Language Updates for Mac OS X XIcons: Customizing Apple's Default Icons Xicons - a resource for creating and downloading OSX icons MacUpdate: Xounds - shareware that converts existing MacOS 8 or 9 soundsets for OSX

Freeware, Shareware and Useful Apps I am devoting this section to good OSX Freeware and Apps that I run across. If you have any you would like to add, drop me a line. FTP It is getting hard to find a free FTP client. Fetch has been updated for OSX, but is no longer freeware. sigh... osXigen. It has a good interface and is highly useful. It is similar to RBrowser but a faster, I find. RBrowser. RBrowser has an RBrowser Lite version that is free. But remember to support small developers! Here is a Command Line FTP tutorial from osx.org. iTunes/iTunes/yourmom etc. There are all sorts of neat freeware plugins to istuffs. Shortcut74 lets you play a Quicktime movie in iTunes. O'Reilly - iPhoto Scripts and Plug-ins Parallel Computing - Contact Aliens! Fold Proteins! folding@home uses the seti@home distributed computing model to make calculations about protein folding. seti@home uses the seti@home distributed computing model to contact aliens. Text Editing/Fonts etc. As always, BBedit is the freeware text editing app of choice. X Font Manager lets you turn on and off fonts. Palm Palm - Pain in my ass. queuesnyc is a beta 3rd Party Entourage conduit. I still can't decide if it works or not. Palm Desktop 4.0 No word from Avantgo. There are command line avantgo syncs, but I haven't found one for USB, yet. Supposedly Vindigo is working on something. OSX Keyspan USB-->Serial Adapter Driver iPod Whoo-hoo! ipod updater: To sync contacts, etc to your ipod, you need this first. Then you can download things like these: Contact Syncs: Contacts --> ipod Contact This Apple's Entourage-->ipod Script Also Nifty: iPod Text Editor Tasks --> ipod EntourageEvents EntourageNotes PodUtil Sites/Articles: Version Tracker's ipod Page iPod Hacks iPoding Time Magazine - How to hack an iPod Performance/Multimedia OSX Midi Applications - Here is a page with Freeware and Shareware Midi stuffs. ***NOTE: the following are not freeware, but... support small developers! BTV - BTV allows you to view video from any video input source (including TV capture card!) IOExperts - USB WebCam Driver for Mac OS X --------------------------------------------------------- Apple's OSX Resource Directory - Includes drivers and updates Mac OSX Apps Version Tracker Mac OSX Hints OSX Zone MacUpdate

Using Classic To startup Classic Environment- Apple/System Prefs/Classic It is better to manually boot classic, than to let an app do it Copying between Classic and OSX sometimes crashes Classic Force-quitting a classic application usually crashes Classic, but not the machine To restart in Classic - System Prefs/Startup Disk NOTE: You need the admin password to change the startup disk Things that only work in classic - Most Scanners, some Digital Media Readers, some PCI cards, some Tablets

Where is it now? OS 9 OS X Chooser (Appleshare) Desktop/Go/Connect to Server Chooser (Printers) Applications/Utilities/Print Center Preferences Users/username/Library/Preferences Extensions System/Library/Extensions NOTE: no extension manager Fonts Users/username/Library/Fonts System/Library/Fonts HD/Library/Fonts Imports from OS9 SimpleText TextEdit (Do a search) note: must choose format/make plain text to create text doc Launcher The Dock. There are freeware/shareware apps that emulate the launcher

--------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: Font Management in Mac OS X Part 1 Font Management in Mac OS X Part 2 Apple: Apple Article on Adding Printers etc

Applications/Utilities Apple System Profiler Applet Launcher - Don't work well.. Use Appletviewer from terminal instead. Console - Lots of inexplicable system stuff --NOTE: For Crash Log: Preferences/Crashes Tab CPU Monitor - Whoo hoo Grab - Screen capture utility. Neato. Doesn't work if DVDPlayer is running. Drat! Disk Utility - Repair etc. Java Web Start - Haven't tried it. NetInfo Manager - Security, enable Root User Network Utility - Ping, Finger, etc. Print Center - what used to be the printer part of Chooser ProcessViewer - Tells you what is really running Terminal - Unix. Command Line. Everything your geeky heart desires. Stickies Sherlock Apple Menu/System Preferences Dock - Turn off annoying animations International - add language capabilities --To get keyboard mappings, click Keyboard Menu --If more than one Language is activated, a little flag will show up Login - what apps open with login, who logs in automatically Internet - Default name, email, etc. Network - modem settings, etc, including PPPoE client Software Update - Connects to Apple Server and updates System Startup Disk - switch between startup disks, including OS9 and X Users - add/edit users

The user system OSX is set up for multiple users. let it play the way it wants to. Put your documents under your users/your_name/documents folder System saves everyone's preferences individually To change users, log out and back in (apple/Log Out) --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: Organizing your stuff Apple: Mac OS X 10.0: Using Your Home Directory

Security/Privileges The simple way: Select folder/file in finder. Get Info/Privileges. The other way: Navigate in terminal. "chmod mode file" What the codes mean: r-4-read w-2-write x-1-execute 3 groups to set privileges for - Owner, Group, and Everyone Else (in that order) A couple of permissions settings: chmod 755 (-rwxr-xr-x) - most often used. Owner - Read & Write. All others read and execute chmod 777 (-rwxrwxrwx) - allow everybody read, write and execute priveleges chmod 666 (-rw-rw-rw-) - allow all read and write only chmod 775 (-rwxrwxr-x) - owner and group rwx. Allow all other read and execute Commands: chmod [mode] [file] chgrp [group] [file] you may need to change owners and groups as well Navigate in terminal. "chown user file" || "chown user:group file" --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly ONLamp: Introduction to Unix Permissions Part 1 Introduction to Unix Permissions Part 2 Apple: Mac OS X: Troubleshooting Permissions Issues(good description of permissions) --------------------------------------------------------- Explanation of "root": "root is the same as administrator on a pc. It allows you access and priveleges you wouldn't normally have It is an excellent way of fucking up your computer." - Daniel Howe Root related commands: su - login as root sudo - emulate root for single command. visudo - edit the sudoers file To activate root user: applications/utilities/netinfo manager domain/security/enable root user NOTE: This does not log you in as root. It *allows* you to log in. You only need to do it once. You will occasionally find that you do not have the privileges to do something (ie. move the Developer folder somewhere else, install shockwave) When this happens, use 'sudo [command]' from the terminal window. The first time you use it it will give you a warning not to mess up and ask for your password. --------------------------------------------------------- An easy way to empty your trash if there are write protected things inside: (Brian Turner sent me this hint. It is a good thing and Brian Turner has earned points towards deity-ship.) When you try to empty your trash, you may occasionally get the error: "Can not be completed because you don't have the correct permissions for blah." --open the trash in the GUI --in the terminal, type "sudo rm -rf " (remember to put a space after "-rf " and don't press return) --select everything in trash. --drag everything from trash to terminal window. --it will write in the relevant pathnames --press return --voila! empty trash. no permissions problems. Oh, happy day. --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: Home on the Go with NetInfo

Networking Most networking stuff is done throught the system preferences panels. It's pretty self explanatory. There are some things to make it easier, however. Typing: "ifconfig -a" in the terminal window displays "network interface parameters". Ie. it show you your ip address, your ethernet card address, etc. XMonitor is a real-time system and email monitoring application for Mac OS X. Airport: By all accounts, super easy to use. The computer simply recognizes it. Apple/System Preferences/Network/Airport Non-Apple 802.11b hubs: Fine as long as WEP is not enabled. Have experienced some difficulties with WEP, however. --------------------------------------------------------- Apple: Networking 1 Networking 2 Airport ExtremeTech: Mac OS 9.1 and OS X Home Networking

The Terminal FreeBSD based BSD (originally: Berkeley Software Distribution) refers to the particular version of the UNIX operating system that was developed at and distributed from the University of California at Berkeley. The default shell is a tcsh shell. If for some reason you don't have the bash shell on your mac (you should) and you want it, you can get it here. You can change the default shell in the Terminal/Preferences panel or use 'chsh [shell]' from the teminal prompt. --------------------------------------------------------- Useful Mac OS X Terms: What is BSD? (explanation of both BSD and the concept of a shell) Free BSD Basics(good links) OSX BSD FAQ PDF --------------------------------------------------------- Basic commands/phrases: . - current directory .. - 1 directory higher .tcshrc - file in home directory that has environment variables, paths, etc. cd - change directory ls - list directory (default current directory) ls -a - list all (including hidden files) ls -la - list all verbosely l - list directory verbosely rm -r * - remove recursively (down directory structure) scp - secure copy across machines ssh - secure shell chmod [mode] [filename] - change permissions passwd - change password su - login as root sudo - emulate root user for one command (means "substitute-user do") cp [source] [target] - copy file rm [filename] - remove file pwd - present working directory man [application] - view manual for a command whereis [application] - find an application locate [filename] - find a file whatis [application/commmand] - identify application/command vi filename - edit document using vi editor pico filename - edit document using pico editor javac filename - compile in java java classname - run class up arrow - last command tab - fill in filename NOTE: if you don't know usage of a command, just type in the command name. Terminal will give you the usage --------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly: Unix for the Rest of Us Learning the Mac OS X Terminal Part 1 Learning the Mac OS X Terminal Part 2 O'Reilly ONLamp: Useful Commands Finding Things in Unix Using the vi editor Customizing the login shell MacOSX.org: MacOSX.org: Command Line FTP Tutorial

Developing in OSX for complete beginners Midi and Sound This only sorta fits under Developing. Use your imagination. XMIDI - An OSX Midi Resource Page JAVA Open the Terminal Navigate to the correct directory type "javac filename.java" correct all your mistakes type "java classname" it really is *that* simple As I mentioned, Appletlauncher does not work well. Appletviewer, however, can be accessed from the terminal. usage: appletviewer url(s) Developer Tools can be downloaded from the OSX Apple Developer Website The Developer Tools includes Apple's free Integrated Development Environment - Project Builder. It also installs the c compiler, jikes, and all sorts of useful stuff... BUT...to use jikes, you need to set your classpath. And to do that, you need to write a .tcshrc file and install it in your home directory. Here is an edited verion of mine. Daniel Howe gave me the original. It *should* set the classpaths correctly. Looking through it will also give you a further idea of how all this stuff works. Copy and paste this text file into the vi or pico editor in your home directory and save it as .tcshrc. [IT MUST BE IN YOUR HOME DIR TO WORK] Java and Tomcat on the Mac There is way too much to go into on this topic here. If you want to develop for the mac, start by looking at O'Reilly Network's Mac Site and OSX Apple Developer Website. If people want to email me links, I will post them. other things... O'Reilly - Digging Deeper into OSX Development links, SDKs, compilers, etc. Daniel Howe has offered to be a resource for all things unix/shell/java/perl/path/classpath/tcshrc etc. He can be reached at dh254@nyu.edu. I am tired and I am going to bed.

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