If you started Mail and it tells you that your plugin got disabled you have to move the plugin first from the disabled folder back to the “normal” folder:

Did you know, that you can trigger your HotCorners with a modifier key?

If you have little space on your machine and therefore want to install the LaTeX Basic package (which is only around 150MB instead of a couple of GB) you might run into problems that packages are missing but with tlmgr this is quite easy to solve

To get mission control to pop up fast just write this to your plist file:

Recently I noticed that a config file of Safari gets updated every now and then even if Safari is not running.

If you want a small bash, zsh or shell script that auto authenticates you with Uppsala Universities UpUnet-S you can use this simple one liner, just add our username and password and up you go

apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential 2. compizconfig-settings-manager dkms Install the guest drivers Open ccsm (from the console) and disable “Framebuffer object” option under “OpenGL” (be prepared that you won’t be able to read much, but if you activate 3D first, then it will be even worse) shutdown -h now Activate 3D acceleration in VirtualBox power on done. /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/207813/why-does-an-ubuntu-12-10-guest-in-virtualbox-run-very-very-slowly/214968#214968

To be able to use Safari’s search function you definitely should execute this cmd:

By default iTunes sorts albums by name instead of year for whatever reason.

Every time I setup a new Mac system I wonder “what else do I have to set/configure” so I decided today while setting up a new Mac that I will write down the (imho) most important steps, settings and applications. Thus I have a step by step list next time I set up a new Mac (: