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Alternative to istat menu

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MenuMeters is  a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a laptop's small screen.  MenuMeters at the topmenu Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later (10.7 supported) PowerPC or Intel based Macintosh (Universal Binary) Website

Show hidden files in Mac Os Lion

Open Terminal and run: $ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder (hold alt key and right click on Finder, then Relaunch) To hide this files again run in Terminal: $ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO and also relaunch Finder as above. source

How to uninstall XCode4 from Mac OS X Lion

So i had an old version of XCode on my computer, and i tried upgrading it with the new mac app store, and it didn’t work. I wanted to uninstall it and then reinstall it using the app store, but they of course don’t have an option to UNINSTALL apps using the app store Google tells me to just delete the app and then you can click ‘install’ again on the purchases tab in the app store, but since this is xcode, you can’t just drag an application to the trash. You have to run a command using Terminal. So, open terminal and type: sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all The directory MIGHT be different, but for me it installed it to /Developer . Anyway, it should list all the packages and then say it deleted them. I restarted my mac just to be safe. THEN, if it STILL says that xcode is installed, you need to delete the installer from /Applications (different from the Applications folder in your home folder). Go Macintosh HD/Applications and there should be a file called ...

Set (or change ) the hostname - Mac Os Lion

Open " System Preferences " Click on " Sharing " icon Edit the field " Computer Name " with your new hostname Actually this is very useful, because now you can see your device listed in the DHCP list at the router configuration.