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• November 10, 2011

  Mac OS X: Lock your screen with a keyboard shortcut

  This will enable you to lock your screen (by showing the login screen but keeping your session open) with a shortcut of your choice. All without the need to enable “Require password after sleep or screen saver begins” in your System Preferences and will work with Macs without the eject key, e.g. the current MacBook Ai … Read

• April 04, 2011

  PGP on Mac OS X with MacGPG2

  The goal of this tutorial is to get PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) up and running, create a public (shared) key and the corresponding private key. With them it is possible to encrypt information like mails, documents and files in a very secure and asymmetric wa … Read

• February 14, 2010

  Recursively clear folder from .svn-directories

  Often needed, we put it in here for copy&paste purposes First, check for .svn-folders in your current directory by entering find . -type d -name .svn Now these can be removed recursively, starting from the current directory with … Read

• November 19, 2009

  Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Set up Apache, MySQL, PHP (MAMP)

  A small guide for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to set up the built in Apache webserver, install and configure a MySQL database management system and set up the also built in PHP scripting language, so that you run your own (MAMP-) webserver for local webdevelopment. Many people use predefined packages to run a local webserve … Read