Mac OS X - File Vault no free space.

I often get given laptops and computers by friends to sort out because the see me as the “computer whiz”. This time even I had to think about the problem for a while, I was given a Macbook laptop that keep saying it had no free space left on the hard drive anymore, The user [...]

Mac OS X - Show hidden files script

Ok, so in my last post about showing the hidden files in finder I talked about the terminal commands but thats not always convenient for fast switching.
Below is some applescript that I wrote to do the job.

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– Shane Duffy

display dialog "Show hidden files in Finder" buttons {"Show", "Hide","Cancel"} default button 1
copy the result as [...]

Mac OS X - Show Hidden Files in Finder

One annoying thing about my MacBook pro and OS X is not easily been able to show hidden files.
Showing hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Hide the files again
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

Thanks to Matt for pointing out an error in my screen shots
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition provides a great resource for [...]

Error Logging

The Microsoft Enterprise Library has a really good Logging Application Block that allows you to make your logging infrastructure configurable.
This framework makes logging as easy as typing:
Logger.Write(”System rolled over!”);
the framework is configurable from your config file.
The Microsoft Enterprise Library out of the box provides the following destinations for logging messages:

Email
Custom Locations
Message Queues
WMI Events
Database
Text Files
File

I took [...]