OS X Mavericks is slow and having high CPU usage, usually points toward some software related issue rather than hardware issue. Extra points are here for OS X Mavericks as we have already discussed the topics - Tips To Keep Mac, MacBook Pro Faster and Fixing MacBook Slow Startup and Slow Shutdown. May be, the older version's some tricks might work for you too - Fix Mountain Lion Slow Shut Down … [Read more...]
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10 Things to Know About Mavericks
Perhaps you have updated your Mac to OS X Mavericks and received some updates. Here are some handy tips for the users of 10.9 version of the OS X operating system. We already wrote about upgrading to OS X Mavericks and there are lot of good unique tutorials on OS X. Most tips for OS X 10.8 will work for Mavericks too. Here are some tips for the fully new Mavericks users, however, old Mac users … [Read more...]
IRC Clients for OS X
IRC Clients for OS X can be divided in to two broad categories - Free Software and Non-Free Software. Among the Non-Free Softwares there are paid softwares. Free Software here means the softwares which has GNU GPL 3.0 or compatible License. We are mainly interested about there Free IRC Clients for OS X. IRC Clients for OS X : Required Minimum Introduction You possibly has came to … [Read more...]
Creating an iOS App for Your Self Hosted WordPress
Creating an iOS App for your Self hosted WordPress is neither very easy nor very difficult. We will provide you some resource to build the client iOS App. This is the third part and is the continuation of Blueprint for Creating an iOS App from RSS Feed. This is not a very easy, on the flick work, because we want that you understand and create a custom good iOS App. To help you, as the second and … [Read more...]
Installing Wine or WineBottler on OS X to Run Windows Programs
Installing Wine or WineBottler on OS X to Run Windows Programs is neither emulation nor Virtualization. This is faster way, because lot of resources are not used. One most important thing, at the time of writing, these two softwares might not be fully compatible with OS X Mavericks (10.9) fully by default, with time the developments will proceed to give the next versions compatible with Mavericks. … [Read more...]
Can Not Find .Profile File OS X : Fix and Set
Can Not Find .Profile File in OS X? Woo. You have to read and work a lot, otherwise you might end up setting a wrong profile file messing up the GUI too! Why this situation happens and do you really need to get in hand is important to understand. Unless you really need it (like your GUI is working fine, suddenly you developed and etching for getting the .Profile file). This typical situation, I … [Read more...]
SMB2 or Server Message Block and OS X
SMB2 or Server Message Block version 2 is an application-layer network protocol, was originally designed as SMB at IBM before the year 1990. There is a riple, since OS X Mavericks has SMB2 by default.Let us discuss both SMB 2.0 or Server Message Block Protocol and OS X Mavericks on this aspect. SMB2 or Server Message Block 2 and OS X : Server Message Block Reader must have minimum … [Read more...]
Creating RESTful API for Your Self Hosted iOS App
Creating RESTful API for your self hosted iOS App on your domain's sub directory with this easy guide. Optionally you can use a PaaS like Red Hat OpenShift or Heroku Cloud to host the App. The reason behind using a Cloud based server is nothing but the service continuity, Scalability and flexibility. Regular readers can recall an article - Scalability and Service Continuity Are Not Equivalent in … [Read more...]
OS X Mavericks Calendar and Facebook Contact Settings
OS X Mavericks Calendar and Facebook Contact Needs a Bit Tuning to Show up your Facebook Friend's Birthday on Calendar App. This is what guided in this article. We have this written text plus a video guide for better understanding. OS X Mavericks Calendar and Facebook Contact : Understanding the Basics OS X Mavericks Calendar, Maps, Contacts etc. Apps and Facebook Contact requires … [Read more...]
OS X localhost : Minimum and Maximum You Need to Know!
OS X localhost will obviously behave like pure UNIX OS, be it Mavericks or OS X Mountain Lion. It is possible to open localhost without installing Apache2 too. But, it is more important to understand which, what when, who and why. Blinding playing with OS X or any UNIX Operating System can be quite dangerous because usually we have a non-dedicated DNS for the Internet Connection from Internet … [Read more...]
How to Install apt-get on Mac OS X
How to install apt-get on Mac OS X or rather OS X Mavericks so that we can use the power of installing Debian based packages is shown in this guide. We talked about UNIX Operating System, Unix Like Operating System and Linux Operating System before. Also, we have talked about the Unix Shell. As possibly you know, there are two main types of package management systems for Linux - deb Based and rpm … [Read more...]