A collection of hopefully useful tips.
Here's a nifty little way to do screen sharing over a SSH tunnel. It's been pretty handy when MobileMe doesn't let me do the screen sharing from the finder. If you've got multiple machines that you want to have access to, just increase 6900 to 6901 for the next one as well. Don't forget to update user and machine names. Thanks to Rich Wicentowski for this one.
#!/bin/bash
ssh USER@REMOTE.MACHINE -fL 6900:127.0.0.1:5900 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes sleep 45
open -W vnc://USER@127.0.0.1:6900
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum
tell application "Finder"
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end tell
~/Library/Safari/Icons/To delete all notes in the calendar, select the month or week view, and Options > Delete notes > All notes.
To delete all the contacts and the details attached to them from the phone or SIM card memory, select Menu > Contacts > Del. all contacts > From phone memory or From SIM card.
I've got a number of contacts that have multiple email addresses. To change the default email used for the individual you need to go into AddressBook and then select:
Edit -> Edit Distribution List
which will allow you to change the default address used on a per-group basis.
Find new tools at http://www.quicklookplugins.com/ and restart via
qlmanage -r
from the command line.
I've been using Privoxy for many years (even in its prior incarnation as the Internet JunkBuster). Recently, I've started using it with Polipo A caching HTTP proxy which has given tremendous performance improvements.
Safari -> Privoxy -> Polipo
Only change I needed to make was in the privoxy config to add " forward / localhost:8123 " to chain them together.
Update Jan 2009: Polipo was working great for a long time, but now I've removed it from the chain once upgrading to Safari 4 beta and Privoxy 3.0.11 which now has HTTP/1.1 support.
Enabling the use of TOR as well is pretty straightforward. See these instructions on using TOR with polipo.