fs_usage – somewhat like Systinternals’ Filemon, this command shows you a realtime list of all the filesystem activities – like what files are being accessed on your system along with the names of the applications that are accessing them. If you are seeing a lot of filesystem activity but are not sure what is causing [...]

Recently while trying to print a web-page via Safari, I realized that the two-sided print option was disabled.

At first I thought it was something to do with Snow Leopard and HP’s printer drivers (the printer was an HP LaserJet P3005). However, even after installing the latest HP printer drivers the two-sided print option remained [...]

Snow Leopard, just like its predecessor Leopard, is a developer’s delight. It ships out of the box with (in no particular order):

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
Python 2.6.1
perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
svn, version 1.6.2 (r37639)
Apache/2.2.11
PHP/5.3.0
Java SE 6 (javac version 1.6.0_15)
SQLite version 3.6.12
gcc 4.2.1

And then you can also install XCode 3.2 or download the iPhone SDK.
I [...]

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, after which I installed Aperture 2.1 from the retail DVD. Now at this stage you cannot launch Aperture because versions lower than 2.1.4 are blocked from running on Snow Leopard. So I downloaded the 2.1.4 Aperture Update and tried installing it. The installer gave me the following [...]

If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. AccuWeather used to have a much bigger collection of cities – including many smaller cities in India [...]