Searching for files with Spotlight is awesome and you can actually use the power of Spotlight even in the console. But first let me show you some nice features of Spotlight.

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

Recently I turned on UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) to play a bit with it and instantly noticed that someone/something opened some ports in my router and forwarded them to my machine. So of course I wanted to know what’s going on on my network.

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

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

If you try to run FreeMind on Mountain Lion you get this “nice” error message:

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