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Is there any command from the CLI that you can use to wipe all of the free space on your hard drive, so the remains of deleted files get removed? If one exists, has anyone had any good/bad experiences with it? I don't want to reboot into OS 9 to run TechTool Pro every time I delete a file...

I knew someone at my old job who used her mouse upside down! And she claimed that she learned to do it that way from someone else. How could someone not think to turn the thing the proper way up? Isn't it intuitive?

CD-RW's burn just fine from the Finder on my iBook 2001. However, when I'm done burning and the burning progress bar disappears, there's usually a long delay before the new disk mounts and I can read it. Furthermore, when I've erased CD-RW's with the Disk Utility app (why didn't Apple...

Am I missing something, or has "Print to PDF" been removed from print dialogs? The only way that I can print to PDFs now is to do a print preview and save as PDF from the Preview application's File menu.

Idle apps SHOULDN'T hog resources (memory or processor) if they're programmed correctly. However, many Carbonized applications have been Carbonized poorly...instead of handling Carbon Events the way they're meant to be handled, they keep polling for events in the OS 8/9 way...I've seen Carbon...

Just tested some Windows "long" fonts on OS X 10.1...they now work. This means that OS X has plenty of Greek fonts available...just get the Windows versions and drop them in /Library/Fonts or Users/yourname/Library/Fonts. Still no keyboard driver, of course...

The MacNN forums had a long discussion about Greek in Mac OS X last week. The thread may have been lost when they had their problems last week, though. Here are the important facts: The U.S. distribution of OS X 10.1 does not have any Greek support, except that the standard system font...

(1) Clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock does NOT open a new Finder window, unless the Finder was already the active app. This was true in 10.0.4 and still is true in 10.1. (2) In 10.0.4, clicking on the desktop made the Finder the active app and brought all Finder windows to the front...

Where is this PDF found on the Apple web site?

Can't log in to OS X? Try booting in "single user" mode by holding Apple-S on bootup. It will drop you directly into a shell. You might be able to fix whatever problems you're having from the CLI. Got me out of trouble once...