Everything is Gray » OS X http://everythingisgray.com James Barclay's blog about design, technology, and the web. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:55:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Configure Archive Utility in Mac OS X http://everythingisgray.com/2010/02/16/configure-archive-utility-in-mac-os-x/ http://everythingisgray.com/2010/02/16/configure-archive-utility-in-mac-os-x/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:46:41 +0000 James Barclay http://everythingisgray.com/?p=173 Having recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and electing to skip the option of running Migration Assistant to transfer my data and settings, I noticed that a few applications were behaving differently. Over the years I’ve configured quite a few things on my Mac, and eventually I became accustomed to said customizations. One of the first things I noticed was that when I would unarchive a zip file, the compressed file would stay put. I remembered that a few years ago I learned of a cool way to configure Mac OS X’s built-in Archive Utility, (using a System Preference pane), so I immediately went digging. To do this, simply navigate to therootofyourharddrive/System/Library/CoreServices. From there right or control click on Archive Utility.app, and select “Show Package Contents.” A new window will open containing a folder named Contents, within which you’ll find Resources, and finally Archives.prefPane. Opening this preference pane will result in System Preferences.app asking if you’d like to install for all users or for this user only. Voila! Now you can tell Archive Utility to delete the archive after expanding it.

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sysctl hw |grep 64bit.

If your machine is 64 bit capable, the result will be

hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1

If your machine is not 64 bit capable, the result will be

hw.cpu64bit_capable: 0

Tip source: OSXDaily.com

]]> http://everythingisgray.com/2009/10/08/check-if-your-mac-is-64-bit/feed/ 2 I shed a tear for Quicksilver today http://everythingisgray.com/2009/04/22/i-shed-a-tear-for-quicksilver-today/ http://everythingisgray.com/2009/04/22/i-shed-a-tear-for-quicksilver-today/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:25:56 +0000 James Barclay http://everythingisgray.com/?p=84 Today I uninstalled Quicksilver, in favor of using the LaunchBar 5 beta. It was late 2007 when developer Nicholas Jitkoff released the source to Google Code, and I’ve been hanging on tightly ever since. I understand that the project will continue to be updated, but I’ve come to my wits end, and am done struggling with the application for now. We’ll see how long this lasts…

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