A color picker trick in Mac OSX Leopard

Pick the Color

In most of free built-in Mac applications, under Menu Bar → Tools you can find a tool named Show Colors (shortcut: command-shift-c). Upon clicking on it, a color pane will appear

1. Click on the magnifier icon just next to color bar. Your cursor will now be transformed into a huge magnifier crosshair
2. Sample any visible pixel of your desktop and you can see the color bar change accordingly
3. If you're currently using RGB Slider, you will notice the changes also apply on each red/green/blue sliders
4. Now click and hold your mouse at any point inside the slider and move out your mouse
5. You will see a color being dragged out; put it onto your text editor
6. And you've successfully pick your color hex code
7. That's it!
   
   

How to reset the password Snow Leopard 10.5

1. Power on or restart your Mac.
2. At the chime, hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.
3. This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step.
4. Type mount -uw / and press Enter.
5. Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist and press Enter.
6. Type ls /Users and press Enter. This lists all of the usernames on the computer – helpful if you don’t know or remember what these are.
7. Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password and replace “username” with one of the users displayed in the previous step. Replace “password” with a new password of your choice. Press Enter.
8. Type reboot and press Enter.

Tricking your Mac into creating a new user account

1. Power on or restart your Mac
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.
3. This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step.
4. Type mount -uw / and press Enter.
5. Type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press Enter.
6. Type shutdown -h now and press Enter.

The third method of resetting your Mac’s password requires some additional explanation. Rather than simply changing the password it fools OSX into believing it has never been started before. This means when you restart the machine, it will take you through the entire setup and registration process all over again. Do not worry, all of your pre-existing data is intouched. Just continue with this process and do not choose the option to transfer or migrate information to the Mac.

Once you’re done, log in with your new admin account and go to System Preferences > Accounts. You may have to click on the lock icon in the lower-left corner before making changes here. You should see your original user account(s) in the left column. Try clicking on one of them to convert it to a standard user account (uncheck “Allow user to administer this computer”) and change the password. You should be able to successfully log in to that account now and access all of your files and programs. If you want, you can log back in with your new admin account and re-check the “Allow user to administer this computer” option in System Preferences to grant admin privileges to the original user again.

That should cover it! As always, remember messing with single-user mode and terminal is risky and may lead to trouble if you make mistakes.

Iif you have a Keychain Access password, you will probably need to reset that as well. You can do this by selecting “login” under Keychains on the left and choosing Delete from the Edit menu. You’ll lose everything in the Keychain, but you’ll now be able to start fresh and add new ones.

 

How to change the location of Adobe Photoshop scratch disk
If Photoshop is stored an external drive by default and the external drive was not available, when initialising the program the error 'Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available' is displayed. To resolve this problem

1. Hold down Command and Option when starting.

2. This allows you to change the scratch disk location, change to the location as necessary.

 

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What if I want to attach the MacBook to an external monitor
You can do it, but you will need to buy one (or both) of two video adapters. Apple sells a mini DVI-to-DVI adapter, as well as a mini DVI-to-VGA adapter. You’ll need one of those to install to an external monitor of your choice (up to 1,920-by-1,200 pixels).


I have a MacBook Pro can I use my old MacBook power supply with it?
The MacBook Pro uses an 85-watt power supply, the MacBook uses a 60-watt power supply. Apple say that you can use the more powerful, 85-watt power supply with a MacBook without any problems, and that in 80/90 percent of situations, you can use the MacBooks power supply with the more demanding MacBook Pro as well. The MacBooks adapter will still be able to power the MacBook Pro, but it may not have any power left over to charge its battery if heavy usage is the norm, we would recommend purchasing the MacBook Pro power supply.



Do Apple supply internal modems for my MacBook Pro
Internal modems are not supplied as standard anymore, but are available as an external USB device.

Can the MacBook Air run Linux
Yes, the MacBook Air is capable of running a number of Intel-based distributions of Linux.

 

How do I set my computer to save OpenOffice files as Microsoft files
Follow these steps:

Open your OpenOffice application - Click on the words OpenOffice on the menu bar - Drag down to Tools - Select Load/Save - Select General - Set Always Save As to: Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP under Default file format for (Writer, Impress, and Calc).

 

What tools do I need to repair my Macbook Pro
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