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...basic instructions for using Console to check for clues that may help in troubleshooting

This FAQ discusses a procedure for uninstalling or removing Mac® OS 9.

This extract from a chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac® OS X describes several ways to free-up space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also known as your Mac OS X boot volume.

OmniDiskSweeper is another quality product from The Omni Group, it's a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper makes this easy by highlighting the biggest files on your disks, and by noting which files are used by the system, so you don't accidentally delete important files.

GrandPerspective is a utility application for Mac OS X that graphically displays the disk usage of a file system.

WhatSize allows you to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first. WhatSize helps find out what files are taking up all of that space.

Thank you to those of you who attended my workshop, "RTI:  A Complete Apple Workflow" at the CUE conference this weekend.   I spoke about using Apple Software to address your Response to Intervention program.  This post contains the links, resources, and ideas that I shared.  Rather than simply posting the keynote file (which is much easier) I prefer to recap and flush out some of the ideas so that it's beneficial even to those who weren't there.

I love Time Machine for its simplicity and the fact that it's free. Apple did the right thing in creating a backup utility that was integrated into the OS and was actually useful.

Mac OS X only: GeekTool is a nifty utility that incorporates text files, the output of shell commands and images onto your Mac's desktop. GeekTool ranks up there with Quicksilver in my "Oh my God, why doesn't this exist for Windows" list. Especially indispensable for command line lovers, GeekTool is fantastic for keeping tabs on your system or tracking your life in .txt right on your desktop.

Upon becoming Principal of New Milford High School over three years ago, it was decided after a needs assessment that more resources and professional development had to go into the area of educational technology.  I was fortunate enough to participate in two television shows that resulted in funds that normally don't just fall into the hands of a high school administrator.

So, you bought an iPhone. You love the phone and all its features, but wish you didn't have to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. There are plenty of songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Or are there? Actually, with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal) you can create ringtones from any one of your non-DRM songs in your iTunes library easily and for free. This works on both Mac and Windows PCs.

Squeeze is a background file compressor, which uses the new HFS-compression technology in Snow Leopard to transparently compress the folders you configure it to process. Mac OS will read those files normally, they will just take less disk space. How does it work? Just select some folders to compress and Squeeze will silently work in the background to compress the files contained on those folders, regaining disk space. Whenever you use any of those files, Snow Leopard will read it like any other file in the system - it will simply take less space.

"Hello All, I recieved my Magic Mouse and it works great under OSX but I couldn't get it working under Windows at all. Searching here and around the web, I've compiled a guide on how I got it working. Hopefully, Apple will release proper drivers in the future but for now, here is what I did:"

Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

Thanks for the link. No I will not worry when seeing these messages after a repair.

4Easysoft DVD to iPod Suite comprises of DVD to iPod Ripper and iPod Video Converter, so with the single tool, you can get iPod MP4, H.264, MOV video and MP3, AAC audio from both DVD and video files.

This letter dispels a lot of the myths surrounding Mac deployment on a large scale.