Under MacOS X Mountain Lion (10.8) Kindle for Mac appears to store its eBook files in the following folder:
~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
To access this folder easily, I created a symlink in ~/Documents as follows:
$ cd ~/Documents && ln -s ../Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Kindle/My\ Kindle\ Content .
To make Firefox and RequestPolicy work properly with the 1Password Firefox extension, try the following:
Select Tools > Add-ons in Firefox’s menu bar.
Locate the RequestPolicy extension and click its Preferences button.
Select the Whitelist preference pane.
On the Origins tab, enter 127.0.0.1 in the input field and click the Allow button.
Then enter onepassword-at-agilebits-dot-com and click the Allow button.
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To enable retina display support in Firefox 19, try the following:
Type about:config in the address bar.
Search for gfx.hidpi.enabled and set it equal to 2.
Restart Firefox
Source: smuggin, Is there retina display support for new Firefox 19?, Mozilla Support Forums (Feb. 20, 2013); see also mozzilaZine, About:config (Oct. 6, 2012).
I’ve finally updated my hack to activate trim on MacOS X 10.7 to support 10.7.5:
https://grommit.com/~ranga/pgms/trimhack/trimhack-0.1.6.tgz
The man page for trimhack is here.
Patrick Stein has written a nice series of blog posts on Apple’s new “Fusion Drive”:
Fusion Drive on Older Macs? YES!
More on BYO Fusion Drive
Fusion Drive - Loose Ends
Fusion Drive Last Words
See also: Apple, Mac Mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive, Article HT5446 (Nov. 1, 2012).
OSX Daily has a nice post on how to disable Java on MacOS X to avoid a new Java SE7 0-day vulnerability (apparently Java SE6 is not vulnerable). Esteban Guillardoy has written up a very nice detail analysis of the vulnerability, which Oracle apparently knew about since April.
[Aug. 31, 2012 UPDATE] Apparently, the patch to [...]
Remove the Dock’s auto-hide delay:
$ defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
Restore the Dock’s auto-hide delay:
$ defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay && killall Dock
Disable the Dock’s hiding animation:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0 && killall Dock
Enable ultra-fast animation for hiding the Dock:
$ defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.12 && killall Dock
Restore default hiding [...]
Handbreak 0.9.6 was released today! Download it from http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php.
Version 2.4.3 of Manfred Schubert’s PDF Browser Plugin works in Firefox 10 on MacOS X!
I recently came across Shane Gowland’s OldChromeRemover tool for Windows, and wrote a similar program for MacOS X called cleanchrome.pl.
The program is fairly easy to use:
usage: cleanchrome.pl [-v] [-f] [-d dir]
-v - enable verbose / debug mode
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