HP Lasterjet Multifunction Printer Not Detected After Upgrading to OS X Lion – solved

I upgraded to OS X Lion today. While the upgrade went smoothly I was encountered with my first problem with Lion when I connected my HP LasterJet M1136P multifunction printer via USB. Lion told me it could not recognize the disk I’d inserted and asked me to either eject it or ignore it. I tried […]

Finding number of lines in files recursively

I wanted to find the number of lines from a set of files – spread out in nested directories. The shell command “wc” is best for finding number of words / lines in files but it does not have an argument for recursive searching. Here’s a quick shell command sequence that will find you the […]

National Geographic Photo Of The Day Wallpaper on your Mac Desktop

I love National Geographic photographs. Sujeet linked to a Nat Geo photo on a tweet today, and that led me to setting up National Geographic Photo of the Day as my Mac desktop wallpaper using an Automator action. Interested? Here are some notes: Nat Geo offers free Windows and Mac screensaver applications of their best […]

MacBook won’t boot – sometimes!

My MacBook has started misbehaving after 3 years of good service! Last Monday it did not boot. Came with “the folder with question mark”. Which means it did not detect the hard disk. Removing the battery and putting it back in fixed it for the day. I was able to work happily. Took a backup […]

Recursively unlock files on Mac OS X

I copied some songs from a CD and ended up with a folder full of locked files. iTunes can’t save changes to song info (ID3 tags) until I unlocked them. How can you unlock files recursively on Mac OS X? If you have a folder full of locked files on Mac OS X, you can […]