Mac OS X Tips and Tricks
by Peter Jones / March 10, 2009
Hide the Menu On a Per-Application Basis
Use the /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app to
open the Contents/Info.plist file of an application and add a new
child to the root node:
| Property List |
Class |
Value |
| LSUIPresentationMode |
Number |
4 |
More information can be found in the Apple developer
Runtime Configuration Guidelines.
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DNS Service Discovery and iTunes
You can use the following commands on your local computer to access a
remote iTunes (that you have ssh access to):
$ dns-sd -P "any name" _daap._tcp. local 3690 localhost 127.0.0.1 txtvers=1 iTShVersion=131073 Version=196610 &
$ ssh -N user@server.example.com -L 3690:127.0.0.1:3689
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Tune the Spotlight Indexer
Sometimes, the Spotlight indexer (mdsworker) can become greedy and
suck down the CPU and hog memory. The following settings make things
a bit nicer (pun intended):
$ sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds LowPriorityIO -bool true
$ sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds Nice -int 20
$ sudo plutil -convert xml1 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
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