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So i have my Bitcoin application running and as the latest version now supports wallet encryption i have this turned on with a long password.

I was looking for a way to backup my wallet in case i need to format my machine or things go south.

First quit the Bitcoin application and then move the wallet.dat file from the Bitcoin folder located at “~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin” and put it in your Dropbox folder as below.

Secondly i now needed to create a link from the location that the Bitcoin application looks at to where the wallet file now resides.

Now start the Bitcoin application and your address’s should all be there and correct.

Finder on Mac OS X Lion by default is always showing “All My Files” on every new window. Well to be honest not even once I found it useful, never used it since the first install.

Even if you are a geeky Terminal fan, there are always times that you start up Finder, and you need to get faster to your important files. Most of the times I am looking for something in the Documents folder/subfolders, so here is how I have set it as the default Finder directory:

Go to Finder, main menu -> Finder -> Preferences… -> General -> and select your favorite folder in “New Finder windows show” option as shown in the screenshot below.

You can also remove “All My Files” from the Finder’s sidebar as well, just right-click and remove it, or uncheck it from Preferences -> Sidebar.

Mac: Usually, if you want to find out what’s playing in iTunes, you either need to right-click the icon or open it. Macworld found a method that only requires a little work in Terminal to enable a small pop-up on your dock showing the currently-playing track.The process is simple, but only works in OS X Lion. First, boot up Terminal in your Utilities folder on a Mac, then, type:

Now, when you’re playing a track a small pop-up will show in your dock for a few seconds with information on the currently-playing track. If you decide you don’t like it, disabling it is simple. Back in Terminal, type:

For ways to customise the pop-up, hit up the post linked below.

I have been doing quite a bit of Mac OS X Image work lately and have found DeployStudio to be THE best FREE and easy to customise solution for doing this.

One thing i wanted to do was change the default wallpaper for the DeployStudioRuntime.nbi that is created and used as a windows Pre Environment equivalent.

I achieved this by going into the DeployStudioRuntime.nbi folder located on the server at:

I then mounted the ‘DeployStudioRuntime.sparseimage’ file and then navigated to the bellow folder inside the image and replaced the file ‘DefaultDesktop.jpg’ with my custom wallapper.

I made sure the image i created was a high res image to make it look nicer.

This KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDoublefiles which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often leave a trail of these files scattered throughout the filesystem when “visiting” a Windows computer. Even with this hint in place, the .DS_Store files will continue to be created on local volumes (which is a good thing).

To prevent the creation of these files, open the Terminal and type:

Note: Most of the settings controlled by data in .DS_Store files are “cosmetic” in nature — for example, Finder window position, view style, icon position, etc. However, .DS_Store files in OS X also store Finder “comments” so in this sense, disabling .DS_Store files may result in loss of data.

To clear the address resolution protocol cache, simply enter the following command in the terminal.

To clear the domain name system cache, simply enter the following command in the terminal.

If you’ve installed Windows via Boot Camp, and now want to delete it and restore the space to your main Mac hard drive, this brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to do just that.

It’s actually quite easy to remove the Windows drive and reclaim all the hard drive space, the only “problem” is that Apple doesn’t make it an obvious process.

NOTE: by deleting your Windows Boot Camp partition, you will of course be deleting all of the data on that partition. Make sure to back up anything on your “Windows drive” before you proceed. Your OS X partition will not be erased and you won’t lose any data from it.
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