This is quickly becoming one of my favorite ways to browse and read online articles. It makes things amazingly easy to read and does it all with one easy click. Here is a little background… Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising [...]
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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 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 [...]
One of the primary features of the Mac OS X operating system is their search feature called Spotlight. Many Mac OS X users depend on this great feature but others don’t find it necessary. For those of you who don’t find it necessary, it can improve the performance of your Mac OS X system if [...]