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Downgrade from Mac OS Lion to Snow Leopard

My wife needs Vectorworks, an old copy, on her MacBook Pro 15″. But she is running Lion. When she bought her laptop she received a free Lion upgrade that she installed herself via the Apple Store. However Lion no longer supports older powerpc apps, like Vectorworks and so I offered to downgrade to Snow Leopard. [...]

How to clean the Mighty Mouse trackball

My MightMouse(tm) trackball tends to get dirty very easily and in such cases I can’t scroll up, only down. What I do to clean it is the following: I place  a lint free cloth (like the one that comes with every Apple computer, a smallish squared black lint free cloth) on a desk. I spray a little [...]

how to restart sshd on mac os X and the launchctl command

Tested on tiger, leopard and snow leopard. Needs root access to be executed (via sudo) launchctl is the command to stop/start/list and more all sorts of services, including sshd. on my mac mini running tiger if i execute launchctl list I get a list o services: myhost:~ root# launchctl list com.apple.KernelEventAgent com.apple.mDNSResponder com.apple.nibindd com.apple.periodic-daily com.apple.periodic-monthly [...]

HowTo: Apple Key Sequences to reset the Power Manager and the NVRAM on PowerPC Apple G4 (Powerbook, iBook, iMac G4 etc)

These are key sequences to alter the normal boot sequence of Apple computers. How to reset the Power Manager of a pre-Intel (PowerPC PPC) Apple Mac (applies in general to the G4 generation):         Press Shift-Cntrl-Option+Power for 5 seconds and then press the power button. How to reset the nvram (firmware) of a pre-Intel (PowerPC or [...]

who needs a USB keyboard? I DO!!

Problem: you have a macmini with no keyboard at all, no mouse. there is a CD inside the CD drive, and it’s not a bootable CD. The macmini (Intel) dies, meaning the boot disk is corrupted and everytime you try to boot you get the Apple screen of death. At first you think: I am [...]