Peter Heide

Remotely connecting to an Airport Disk in OS X Lion

Peter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:56:37 +0000

After upgrading to OS X Lion and iCloud, I was disappointed to learn that remotely connecting to drives shared on an Airport Extreme is apparently no longer a supported feature. After a bit of experimentation, however, I found that—at least for now—it is possible to mount an Airport Disk directly by doing the following:

In Finder, select Go > Connect to Server…
Enter something like this, replacing placeholder names with the real names of your Airport Extreme, .Mac account and shared drive: afp://My Airport Extreme._afpovertcp._tcp.mydotmacaccount.members.mac.com/My%20Shared%20Drive

Essential iTunes hacks

Peter — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:46:49 +0000

Whenever I have to reinstall iTunes, I also have to reapply the hacks that make it behave the way I like. Mostly for my own convenience, here is a list of the hacks I use.

To get rid of the Ping drop down menus next to artists and so forth, type this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE

To enable half stars in track and album ratings:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

To restore the little store link arrows removed when Ping was introduced:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows -bool TRUE

And to make the store link arrows filter the library rather than launch the store:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool TRUE

How to permanently enable pretty ls colors in Bash in OS X

Peter — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:19:52 +0000

To permanently enable pretty list colors in the terminal, first enter this command:

nano ~/.profile

Once in nano, add the following line to your profile:

export CLICOLOR=1

If, like me, you like to use a dark background in terminal, also add this line. It’ll lighten up the unreadable blue used for directories:

export LSCOLORS=Hxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

Standard font size progression

Peter — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:04:46 +0000

Just never you mind…
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72

Adding an environment variable to Bash PATH in OS X

Peter — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:18:49 +0000

I can never remember how to add environment variables to .bash_profile. This post just reminds me how to do that.

It’s dead simple. Just open up Terminal and enter the following (changing the path ‘/opt/subversion/bin’, naturally):

echo 'export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

If .bash_profile doesn’t exist yet (and it doesn’t by default), it’ll be created. Otherwise, the environment variable will be added to that file.

Credit to Indy Nagpal.