app of the day: google reader for mac

Gruml allows you to view and manage your feed subscriptions of your Google Reader account on Mac OS X.

Read your newsfeeds, manage them in folders, tag them, and much more – all in sync with your Google Reader account.

it’s free, get your copy from here

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Performance improved in mac os x 10.6.3 upgrade

Two days ago apple released third upgrade of their os Snow Leopard. After waiting more then three months, when i get the chance to download it, i did it and installed it. The download size for my mid 2008 Macbook Pro was 438MB (something like this).

After the upgrade it looks the system now more stable, at least till . . . → Read More: Performance improved in mac os x 10.6.3 upgrade

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A new beta of Google Chrome for Mac – with extensions and more

last month google released a new version of google chrome.

copied from google chrome blog:

Since we released Chrome for Mac in beta last December, we’ve been busy adding new features. Today, after some incubation in the developer channel, we’re happy to make some of these features more widely available. The new beta release of Chrome for Mac offers extensions, bookmark . . . → Read More: A new beta of Google Chrome for Mac – with extensions and more

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Empty recyclebin/trash from command line

Some time we need to empty the trash folder when we are working on terminal. you can simple do this using the following command.

rm -rf ~/.Trash

to delete other user trash, use:

sudo rm -rf /Users/user_name/.Trash

*to delete other users trash, you have to use sudo.

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boot snow leopard in 64 bit

As mac os 10.6 (snow leopard) release last 28th august, all the mac lovers are busy to upgrade. i am already using it . Soon i will share my experience.

One of the main feature of this release is the 64bit kernel.Using the following command you can check if your hardware support 64 bit kernel.

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Download iPhone SDK using wget

If you are using slow connection like me and trying to download the apples iPhone SDK , then you already know how much tough it is , because of apple only allow to download this file after login. And non of the download manager can give you the resume facility. so after trying 2 days with . . . → Read More: Download iPhone SDK using wget

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Resolve problems with Office 2008 update installation

“You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.x on this volume. The version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.” Even a clean reinstall from the source Office disk did not fix this issue. After several back-and-forths with Microsoft, the following solution worked.

1. Run the Remove Office app, which is located . . . → Read More: Resolve problems with Office 2008 update installation

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Restore from unsupported Time Machine backups

There are several hints here on how to get Time Machine to backup to an unsupported AFP share, but I found no mention of how to restore from such an unsupported share. After spending some time on Gooogle, I found this page.

The essence of the solution is that once the installer has booted from the DVD, . . . → Read More: Restore from unsupported Time Machine backups

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find out the reason why macbook is not working

one of my friends who has been using macbook for last 1 year, he was so pleased that helped apple to get free market promotion from him.

however macbook didn’t treat that way as he was treating her. suddenly he discovered his macbook with uncertain problem. after trying this and that he hadn’t found any way out.

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Re-enable DFU mode in Mac OS X 10.5.6

this post will help them who are using hacked iPhone and mac os x 10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08). if you want to jailbreak or upgrade the firmware of your iPhone using mac os v10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08) then you have to follow these steps otherwise your new mac os will not support to upgrade your hacked . . . → Read More: Re-enable DFU mode in Mac OS X 10.5.6

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