In the first two posts of this series, you learned the basics of AppleScript. This post will now build on those even more by teaching you about if-then blocks, try blocks, and all the fun stuff you can do with them! Here’s what you should remember. From the first post, remember how to: And from [...]
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It’s a question that a great many people are asking, and for a good reason: can people control my iSight camera remotely? It’s a scary answer:Yes. You can log into another Mac with a built-in iSight camera and take pictures remotely. But here’s the good news: you can also disable the iSight camera on the software end, rather than simply taping it up.
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In the second installment of our AppleScript tutorials, we explore the usage of variables and other basic AppleScript techniques. This lesson builds upon the Getting Started with AppleScript guide, so you’ll want to check out that article first.
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This is the first of a series of articles that are designed to ease people into using bash and writing bash scripts. This article will give you a quick overview of some of the commands you will need to use to execute every bash script, and are commands that you should keep close to your heart for the future
read more »This article serves to introduce Bash for our “Learning Bash” series. Today we’ll be giving a quick background on what exactly bash is and it’s origins.
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AppleScript is a scripting language included with all new Apple computers. If your Mac is running OS 9 or later (which it hopefully is) you’ll already have AppleScript installed. Using AppleScript, you can create a script that automates many tasks on your mac, and create simple “applets”. This guide will go into some of the basics of writing AppleScript and some potential uses for it.
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This is a basic overview of Handbrake, an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. This overview contains information on how to rip a movie from a DVD to your hard drive, and in the process, transcoding it into a format playable on today’s iPod lineup.
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This is a basic overview to jailbreaking your iPhone 4, iPod Touch, or iPad running iOS 4.0 or iOS 4.0.1. It’s far easier than you may think, and only takes a few minutes, thanks to a new tool called JailbreakMe. Jailbreak lets your device be however you want it to be, and it’s completely legal!
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This is a guide on how to find out the password of any local user account. It requires being able to boot into single-user mode or having the root password. So if the computer has a firmware password be sure to check out our accessing single-user mode guide. There is a lot of commands to enter but it is a straight forward process.
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You can easily create a new administrator account if you have a copy of the Mac OS X Installation Disk, but what if you don’t have one on hand, and don’t know the previous administrator’s password? This method tricks the computer into thinking that it’s brand new, as it leads you through the setup again to create a new administrator account.
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