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Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion most probably in July this year 2012. This is a faster development cycle than normal, but the upgrade is not as drastic in terms of getting used to a completely new OS, more like the move from Leopard to Snow Leopard. What they [...]

The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. The above error appears after you successfully get phpMyAdmin up and running on OS X, generally you don’t have to worry about it, you only need to address the error if you are going to use a web application that requires it, for example Magento, the shopping [...]

Help my disk is full! Where is all my disk space going ? My hard drive hardly has got any space left ! I am constantly running out of disk space ! If you are repeating the above statements about your hard disk space, you need a tool to show you what is going on, [...]

Once you have installed MySQL onto OS X / OS X server, MySQL will basically run OK under a light load. If you want to change some variables in the database settings via the configuration file you will notice that there isn’t one there, filed normally in /etc.  This is the default behaviour as a [...]

hmmmm… facetime  - there is no connected camera – error message on OS X Lion – the camera was working fine but now it can’t be used in Facetime, Skype etc But there is a camera and it was working!   Warning – Highly technical fix 1- Shutdown Computer 2- Boot Computer   A restart [...]

An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” – Check your network configuration  - but the network configuration is OK.! Check that Software Update can connect directly to Apple Software Update servers not a custom [...]

Without a doubt the easiest way to make a copy, clone or image of your Mac OSX Lion 10.7 computer that you can boot from, is using a product called Carbon Copy Cloner, using this application is straightforward and avoids any work in the Terminal and been around for a long time and is simply [...]

After tutorials 1 & 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic build and then introducing a user account, time to tweak some settings on OSX 10.7 for the first time boot to include settings such as name, network and time zone settings and set preferences for applications including Safari and the finder. The [...]

From OSX 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested: to hide again: You can apply this to any directories in the filing system – so [...]

Part 2 – Tutorial of the basics of using InstaDMG with OSX Lion 10.7. Please refer to Part 1 to get familiar with the basics of creating a simple ‘out of the box’ InstaDMG image of OSX 10.7. Moving on from the initial image created with InstaDMG which will boot the Mac to a typical [...]