Mac Os X Panther Hacks,9780596007188

Mac Os X Panther Hacks

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ISBN13: 9780596007188
ISBN10: 0596007183
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-30
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

This new book contains the best tips, tools, and scripts from Unix hackers and Mac power users that readers won't find anywhere else. First, Mac OS X Panther Hacks reveals the real-world experience of those well steeped in Unix history and expertise-their no-nonsense, sometimes quick- and-dirty solutions that take full advantage of everything a Unix desktop has to offer. Mac OS X Panther Hacks provides direct, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges facing both those meeting the Mac for the first time and long-time users delving into Mac OS X Panther and its Unix underpinnings.

Author Biography

Rael Dornfest is a Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog.

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published by O'Reilly & Associates) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 (http://www.x180.net), where he keeps his popular weblog. Duncan was the creator of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing. Duncan regularly presents at conferences all over the world on topics ranging from open source and collaborative development to programming Java more effectively. He didn't graduate with a Computer Science degree, but sees that as a benefit in helping explain how software works. His educational background is in Architecture (the bricks and mortar kind), the essence of which he applies to every software problem that finds him. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Table of Contents

Credits ix
Preface xvii
GUI
1(57)
Enjoy the Animations
1(3)
Spice Up Your Desktop
4(3)
Use Labels Effectively
7(5)
Launchers, or, Dial Space M for Mail
12(10)
Wear Multiple Hats, Run Multiple Desktops
22(6)
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
28(4)
Tweak Menu Extras
32(3)
Incorporate Services into Your Workflow
35(7)
Autocomplete Your Words
42(2)
Get Sidetracked
44(3)
eMac, Meet eBook
47(2)
Build Your Own Konfabulator Widget
49(9)
Scripting
58(93)
A Hacker's Introduction to AppleScript
58(6)
AppleScript the GUI
64(7)
Fulfill Wishes with Address Book
71(3)
Fetch the Paper, AppleScript Style
74(3)
Batch-Convert Screenshots to JPEGs
77(3)
Build AppleScript Apps with FaceSpan
80(12)
Mac::Glue Your Perl
92(5)
Update iChat Status with Mac::Glue
97(5)
Hack Your Address Book with Perl
102(4)
Manipulate Images on the Command Line
106(3)
Script CoreGraphics with Python
109(9)
Tap RSS with Shell Scripts
118(6)
Add a Dab of GUI to Unix Scripts
124(18)
Automatically Dim Your Laptop Screen
142(9)
Web, Chat, and Mail
151(82)
Hack Safari
151(7)
Browse Different
158(8)
Avoid the Ads
166(7)
Read Syndicated Online Content
173(10)
Breathe Life into Your Staid Buddy List
183(4)
Better iChat Transcripts
187(7)
Gather Ye Buddies While Ye May
194(2)
USB Videoconferencing
196(4)
Provide Remote Support
200(2)
IRC: Chatrooms for Hackers
202(8)
Label Your Mail
210(3)
Search Your Mail with ZOE
213(8)
Encrypt and Sign Your Mail
221(7)
Interleave Mail and Pine
228(5)
Multimedia
233(55)
Build a Household MP3 Server
233(5)
Clutter Your Desktop with Music
238(3)
Feed Streaming Audio to Your iPod
241(11)
Autofeed Text to your iPod
252(6)
Automate a Web Photo Gallery with iPhoto and Perl
258(12)
Keep a Digital Diary
270(5)
Rendezvous Picture Transfer
275(7)
Rotate Your Movie from Horizontal to Vertical
282(3)
Store Pictures and Movies in Your iPod
285(3)
Gadgets and Hardware
288(64)
Expand Your Screen Real Estate
288(7)
iPod Tips and Tricks
295(2)
Build an Emergency iPod Boot Volume
297(3)
Pair and iSync with Bluetooth Devices
300(11)
Use Your Cellphone as a Bluetooth Modem
311(6)
Share Your Mac's Net Connection with a Bluetooth Phone
317(9)
Control Your Mac with a PDA
326(7)
Listen to Bluetooth
333(6)
Print Without Wires
339(4)
Zip, Zap, and Sync Your Gizmos
343(5)
iOscillate
348(4)
Networking and Network Apps
352(50)
Share Your Address Book and iCal
352(6)
Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous
358(9)
See Spike Share His Clipboard
367(4)
Detect Wireless Networks
371(4)
Secure Your AirPort Network with WPA
375(6)
Manage Multiple AirPort Base Stations
381(3)
Access Remote Desktops
384(18)
Servers
402(32)
Apache Behind the Scenes
402(4)
Turn on WebDAV
406(4)
Turn on PHP
410(1)
Advertise Web Sites with Rendezvous
411(3)
Set Up a Postfix Mail Server
414(6)
Relay Mail with Postfix
420(7)
Set Up Secondary Mail Servers
427(2)
Create Mail Aliases
429(1)
Set Up 1MAP and POP Mail Servers
430(4)
Files and Backup
434(53)
Synchronize Your Files
434(6)
Edit Special Unix Files
440(6)
Find and Unerase Misplaced and Deleted Files
446(3)
Store and Search Your Records as PDF
449(1)
Flex OmniOutliner
450(12)
Decide What to Back Up
462(2)
Automate Backups with Existing Tools
464(3)
Back Up Your Digital Music Collection
467(4)
Make a Carbon Copy
471(11)
Bluetooth File Exchange and Browsing
482(2)
Secure File Sharing with SSH
484(3)
System Administration
487(60)
Become an Administrator for a Moment
487(3)
Understand Your User Account
490(4)
Rename a User Account
494(2)
Use the Terminal
496(9)
Set Shell Environment Variables
505(2)
A Security Primer
507(16)
Stash Data in the Keychain
523(3)
Panther Maintenance
526(7)
Use iCal to Schedule Tasks
533(1)
Use periodic to Schedule Tasks
534(2)
Use cron to Schedule Tasks
536(5)
Reinstall Mac OS X
541(4)
Bypass the GUI
545(2)
Index 547

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