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iPad Hype

Published
by
Dilantha
on April 3, 2010
in Mac, Mobile and Technology
. 2 Comments

The iPad is here. Well not here in Sri Lanka yet. Give us a few years to catch up will ya. Its a couch computer you use on your knees.

Tablets have been around for years but this is not a tablet with a pointy pen device. This a full hands on experience. If I had one I could have written this post with the latest WordPress app for the iPad.

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Show/ Hide Hidden Files In Mac Finder

Published
by
Dilantha
on January 16, 2010
in How To and Mac
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The first thing you notice in Mac Finder is there is no way to show hidden files. In Windows Explorer or Gnome this is in the menus. On mac you need to set a environment variable called “com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles” to toggle the state of hidden files.

I manually changed this a couple of times, but its annoying to do all the time. So I thought of adding it to a bash script to make things easier.

#!/bin/bash
 
SHOW_FILES=`defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles`
 
if [ $SHOW_FILES = "FALSE" ]; then
	defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
else
	defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
fi
killall Finder

References
Mac OS X – Show / Hide Hidden Files in Finder

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