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Where to find the iPhone software update

October 11th, 2009

If you are like me and want the ability to return to a previous version of the iPhone OS then you’ll need to start taking back-ups of the downloaded OS images.

When you click to Update your iPhone in iTunes and select Download with the intention to install later, you’ll be able to take a copy of the downloaded file before you install.

Once downloaded, this can be located under your User folder /Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates

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OS X Eject button

December 29th, 2008

A small collection of keyboard shortcuts that breath new life into the Eject button in OS X.

Screen to sleep
ctrl + shift + eject

Computer to sleep
option + cmd + eject

Computer restart
ctrl + cmd + eject

Computer shutdown
ctrl + option + cmd + eject

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Using Windows Clip Art on a Mac

August 20th, 2008

Having recently convinced my wife that she needed to make the switch to Mac OS X I was horrified to find that the Mac would not open WMF files.  Over the years I have accumulated a large collection of clip art files in the WMF (Windows Metafile) file format and didn’t really want to start again.

I found the quickest way to resolve this was to convert all of my existing WMF file into the PICT file format.  Using one of my Linux servers I ran the following shell command against my picture library:

find /home/user/clipart/ *.WMF -print0 | while IFS= read -rd $'\0' f;
do echo "[$f]";
convert "$f" "$f.pict";
rm -f "$f";
done

This creates a list of files who’s file-name ends with WMF.  We then loop through each of these file-names converting each and saving it with a .pict file extension.  The IFS= read -rd parameters are absolutely necessary should your WMF files contain spaces.

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