Category Archives: osx

OS X Lion Mail app corrupts attachments

Posted by on December 7, 2011 No comments

I’ve had the Mail app on OS X Lion crash a few times on me lately. Read more »

Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard

Posted by on February 27, 2011 7 comments

After a colleague showed me the excellent MySQL Workbench the other day I thought I’d install the packaged MySQL on my Macbook, to do a bit of Catalyst developing. Read more »

Stop X11 running an xterm on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Posted by on January 13, 2011 No comments

It’s always annoyed me how this is the default behaviour in OS X. It used to be a case of editing an xinitrc, but now it’s a simple ‘defaults’ edit…

defaults write org.x.X11 app_to_run ”

Capture YouTube videos for offline viewing on a Mac

Posted by on October 4, 2009 2 comments

Joshua Johnson has put a neat post on MacAppStorm about little known shortcuts in OS X, and this one is a particularly great little nugget. Read more »