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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, [...]

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 [...]

Since OS X is based on Unix there are a of ways to compress files and folders, below are a few options using the command line interface. The default command line interface in OS X is Terminal and stored in /Applications/Utilities. We should always compress files and folders to save on file size and ensure [...]

On every OS X Lion installation a hidden partition is created to enable a method for Lion to be reinstalled on the machine, it is known as the recovery partition or drive and is 650mb in size. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.7 already installed – but no [...]

I know Apple are going away from optical media, pushing it the same way as the old floppy disk but heck it’s still nice to have a bootable OSX disk or drive in times of need.   After downloading the Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Lion”, control click it to bring [...]

This tutorial assumes a certain degree of comfort in the command line Terminal for installing WordPress on Mac OS X Lion or Snow Leopard but the commands below will get the job done. Before proceeding WordPress needs a couple of things to get going and those things are an AMP stack  - Apache, MySQL and [...]