Long story short… if you want to use the Voice Control feature on the iPhone 3GS, hold down the Home button for a couple of seconds. It will make a sound and vibrate letting you know it is ready for the command. Now, the full story… When I first purchased my iPhone 3GS, one of [...]
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Occasionally, you’ll want to be sure you are getting fresh DNS information during development or working on servers with hostnames. This has changed in the Leopard version of Mac OS X. The following command will now flush your DNS cache on Mac OS X Leopard: dscacheutil -flushcache
The HTTP 301 status code is meant for use when you want to redirect a page or URL to its new destination after reorganizing or moving a web site around. This can be on the same domain or an entirely new domain. Here is the W3C definition of the 301 code. The requested resource has [...]
If you have ever contacted Apple for support on any of their products, you know the first question they are going to ask you is… “What is your serial number?”. The serial number is easy to find on most of their products because they allow you to access it through the software. This is typically [...]
If you have previously disabled the Mac OS X Spotlight feature and you now find that you would like to turn it on again, following these steps to do so. Launch Terminal and type the following command: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig Find the following entry in the hostconfig file: SPOTLIGHT=-NO- Change SPOTLIGHT=-NO- to SPOTLIGHT=-YES- Save /etc/hostconfig [...]