It is a globally unique address for every LAN or Network card in your computer like IMEI number in Mobile phones..To know your MAC address do the following :-
1-> Start -> Run -> type “cmd” without quotes
2-> Now type ipconfig/all & Hit enter..
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Know MAC Address of your computer
It is a globally unique address for every LAN or Network card in your computer like IMEI number in Mobile phones..To know your MAC address do the following :-
1-> Start -> Run -> type “cmd” without quotes
2-> Now type ipconfig/all & Hit enter..
Friday, February 12, 2010
Control you mac pc using ipod touch or iphone
This post explains how to control your mac computer using your iphone or ipod touch
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Admin Hack in mac OS
Here's how to create an admin account without knowing the current administrator password.
This is nothing new to people familiar with unix, and can't really be classified as a "hack", but it's an easy way to make an admin account without a password. This particular method is used if you, for some reason, can't get into your account at all, for example: you lost your password and you account is protected with FileVault. This process basically forces your computer to re-run setup, which is what you see when you setup a new Mac.
This process will take about 5-10 minutes. If you have a password, or WEP code for your network or internet, be sure to have that at hand.
If the computer doesn't have an Open Firmware Password, that this should work fine. If it does, than you're out of luck
Step 1: Boot in single user mode (Single user mode bypasses the GUI, which is all the visual stuff, and gives you something called "root access") by pressing Command + S (Apple+S) when the first shade of blue appears on the screen, and holding it down until the screen turns black with white text.
Step 2: Wait for all the code stuff to load. Now, the first thing we need to do in single user mode is mount the hard drive so we can edit it. You enter this command in : /sbin/mount -uw /
It should say something about removing orphaned unlinked files.
Step 3: We are going to delete a little file that tells your computer every time you start up that you've completed the setup by entering this command: rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
It should just bump down, waiting for the next command if it worked.
Step 4: Now type, reboot
Step 5: It should shut down and reboot. Than, a setup window will appear, asking you what language you want your computer to be in, just like you see when you setup a newly purchased Mac.
A welcome video will play after you select the language. It has some pretty cool music, but if your in a room with other people, I'd mute it right after the video starts, or have headphones handy.
Step 6: Setup the computer. Select "DO NOT TRANSFER MY DATA". Don't worry, all your old stuff will still be there. Choose your internet connection and network, here is where you need your WEP or security password if you have one.
Step 7: Create a new local account to administer that computer. You usually want to enter the name of the computer as the longname, and the shortname what you'll log in as. Say your computer's old name was "Frank's Computer", than just put Frank as the longname, because it will automatically as " 's Computer" at the end. MAKE SURE THAT BOTH USERNAMES ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE EXSISTING ONES, OTHERWISE IT WILL OVERWRITE.
Step 8: Finish the setup, and you should automatically be logged into your new administrator account.
A good List of Free Mac OS X Applications.
WEB BROWSER
- Firefox - Quick and Secure Web Browser
- Camino – A Mac-styled browser, built on the Firefox engine.
- Safari – The default browser included with OS X, with a bunch of new features in the latest release.
- Opera – A powerful browser with a few new interesting features; speed dial, search shortcuts, and a tab trash can.
- Omniweb – Taking a different approach, and assisting you with online research
Audio
- QLab – Live Media Timelines for MAC OS X.
- UltraMixer – Professional Digital DJ Solution to Mix Digital Music in Various Formats.
- ToolPlayer – Simple Music Player for OS X that Supports FLAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, etc
- SimpleSynth – Plug MIDI Keyboard and Play with SimpleSynth
- Spotify – Spotify allows you to stream almost any song you can imagine via the internet. Access is free, though you’ll need to listen to a short advertisement every few songs.
- Songbird – A non-proprietary,Cross Platform, extensible tool with a great interface
- iTunes – The de-facto music player for OS X, Windows and iPod users
- Audion 3 – Now discontinued, but worth checking out
- Juice – A quality app for browsing and downloading podcasts
- Audacity – For editing and converting audio files
Email, Chat and RSS
- Thunderbird – Email Application to Help You Organize, Secure and Customize Your Mail
- Adium – Free Universal Instant Messaging Application for Mac
- Microsoft Messenger – MSN Messenger Client for Mac
- Skype – Application for Phone Call over Internet.
- Colloquy – Advanced IRC, SILC and ICB Client
- Hab.la – Live Chat Application with Website’s Visitors
- NewsFire – A stylish RSS reader
- Vienna – Providing features comparable to commercial newsreaders for free.
- Shrook - A next-generation news reader
- RSSOwl – Filtering, labels and completely cross platform
- Dashboard RSS Reader – Keep RSS information easily accessible via Dashboard
Twitter
- TweetDeck - Multi paned browsing, and very popular
- Twitteriffic – The classic Twitter client, with a great UI
- Twhirl – Friendly, colorful, and great multiple account support.
- EventBox – For Twitter, and a bunch of other social media networks
- Tweetr – Easy file sharing and webcam support
Video
- VLC Media Player – Cross-Platform Multimedia Player
- RealPlayer – Mac OS X Version of RealPlayer
- Flash Player – Flash Player for Your Mac
- ooVoo – Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing
- Jing – Instantly Captures Images and Records Video
- FrameByFrame – Stop Motion Movie Creator for Mac
- AutoRate – iTunes Rating Made Easy
- Miro - Aiming to provide easily accessible, fully intergrated internet video
- Flip4Mac WMV – For enabling WMV videos in QuickTime
- Handbrake – The ultimate tool for converting video between formats
- Perian - An open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
- DivX Player – A simple, free player for DivX files.
Photo
- iPhoto – The in-built photo app on OS X, with face recognition and geo-tagging support.
- Gimp – A free, cross platform photo editor.
- Seashore – Built on GIMP, with a slightly different user interface
- Flickr Uploader – A simple and free solution for uploading Flickr photos
- JetPhoto – Feature-rich and easy-to-use digital photo software.
- Picasa – Picasa is designed and owned by Google. It offers a bunch of great features, and is also capable of sharing the photo online.
FTP & File Sharing
- Cyberduck - A free alternative to commercial FTP applications
- Filezilla – Great for accessing FTP servers, and completely cross-platform
- Acquisition – In-built torrent searching and integration with iTunes.
- Tomato Torrent - A slightly dated but perfectly functional torrent manager
- Classic FTP -Easy to Use FTP Client
Office & Text Editor
- TextWrangler – A great, free, code editor for OS X
- Bean – A small, easy-to-use rich text processor
- AbiWord – A full featured, open source alternative to Open Office
- Smultron – Good looking, and great for web programming, script editing, making a to do list etc.
- jEdit – Aimed at technical users, an editor specifically for programming
- OpenOffice – OpenOffice is a worthy alternative to Microsoft Office, and comes at a far more attractive price
Utilities
- Growl – A great system-wide notification system
- Disk Inventory X – For viewing a graphical representation of what’s eating up your hard drive
- AppCleaner – Allows you to remove any trace of an application
- Smart Reporter – Be notified if your hard drive seems likely to fail
- FuzzyClock – A fun and slightly less formal way to display the time in your menu bar.
- Quicksilver – Quicksilver is a powerful shortcut tool, which allows you to manipulate files and work with applications – all without needing to open them.
- Paparazzi – Utility for Mac OS X to Make Screenshots of Webpages
- Linotype FontExplorer X -Font Management Application
- iStat Pro – Highly Configurable Mac OS X Widget that Helps You Monitor Your System
System
- Deeper – Personalization Utility for Mac OS X which Reveals Hidden Settings
- MacLoc – Log Out from System without Closing Applications
- OnyX – Multifunction Utility for Maintenance, Optimization and Personalization of Your System
- Loginox – Application for Easier Customization of Login Screen
- Mactracker – Mactracker Provides Detailed Information on Every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS Computers
- SuperDocker – Little Application to Help You Modify Your Dock, Dashboard or Safari Loading Bar’s Appearance with Simple Drag & Drop
File Management
- AppCleaner – Small Application to Allow You Thoroughly Uninstall Unwanted Apps
- AppFresh - Application to Keep All Applications Up-To-Date
- Carbon Copy Cloner - Clone, Synchronize and Backup Your Files
- SpotInside – Search and Look Inside Documents
Torrents
- Transmission – Multi-Platform BitTorrent Client
- Vuze – The Reigning Heavy-Weight BitTorrent Client[VIA]
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