man pages are great, but they arent the most usable.
browsers are far more usable.

you can set an enviroment variable that will let your man pages be read in your browser of choice:

in osx to read man pages in safari
open a terminal:

export PAGER="col -b  | open -a /Applications/Safari.app -f"

in osx to open man pages in google chrome:
open a terminal:

export PAGER="col -b | open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app -f"

now whenever you run ‘man whatever’ in your terminal it will open the manual page in your browser

there is also an app called bwana that you can install which allows you to get the manual pages by entering man://whatever in your url bar!

if you have bwana installed, then you can get bwana to open the man page in your browser when you type the man commands in the terminal too:

firstly open ~/.bash_profile in your text editor
(if it doesnt exist, then create it)

add the following

function newman() { open -a /Applications/Safari.app man://$@ ;}
alias man='newman'

save the file. close all open terminals and open a new one
now when you type

man bash

in the (new) terminal it will open the man page in safari using bwana

the problem with this is that it takes up lots of space on your drive.

apple has introduced Autosave and Resume, which will automatically save the content of all your documents and will automatically open them again after you restart your computer.

these two new features make the need for sleepsafe not so important any more.
by disabling sleepsafe you can effectively recover harddrive space (in my case I can get an extra 8gb!)

to turn off sleepsafe mode, open terminal and type:

sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

you have now disabled sleepsafe mode, but the file that holds the content of your ram still exists, you can now remove it:

sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

to re-enable sleepsafe mode, open terminal and type:
sudo pmset hibernatemode 3

the man page for pm set has the following recommendations:

We do not recommend modifying hibernation settings. Any changes you make are not supported. If you choose to do so anyway, we recommend using one of these three settings. For your sake and mine, please don't use anything other 0, 3, or 25.

hibernatemode = 0 (binary 0000) by default on supported desktops. The system will not back memory up to persistent storage. The system must wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on power loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.

hibernatemode = 3 (binary 0011) by default on supported portables. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless a power loss forces it to restore from disk image.

hibernatemode = 25 (binary 0001 1001) is only settable via pmset. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to memory. The system will restore from disk image. If you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery life, you should use this setting.

go to images.google.com

search for ‘Atari Breakout’

try not to waste too much time!

firstly, there are a couple of rules:

1) the file has to be an AIFF file
2) the file cant be longer than 2 seconds

once you have a suitable file (or have converted another format to aiff)
rename that file to

Basso.aiff

open finder and navigate to

~/Library/Sounds

if there is an existing Basso.aiff file, rename that to Basso.AIFF.bak
next, copy in the replacement.

now, open terminal and type:

killall NotificationCenter

your notification sounds will now be your new custom sound :D

the notification center on osx is a good idea, but I personally dont ever use it, so I figured that it was time to disable it, like the other osx features that I dont use

to disable the notification centre:

open terminal

type:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall Notification Center

the notification center will now be gone!

it turns out that there isnt a way to disable dns from the plesk panel.
you can go to tools > DNS settings and turn DNS off
but that only applies to new domains.

if you need to turn off dns for all of your existing domains, try this:

assuming that your domains are all in /var/www/vhosts

ls /var/www/vhosts | while read x; do /usr/local/psa/bin/dns --off $x; done

it will itterate through all the domains listed in /var/www/vhosts and will turn their dns off.

since then it hasnt been off.
I had an ipad when they first came out, and tried a load of different cases, all ended up the same, in a box.

the dodocase is different. it doesnt cover the edges of your ipad, so like the smart cover you still feel like you are using an ipad.

the dodocase, like the smart cover, has a magnet in it that turns off the screen when you close it, and turns on the screen when you open it.

it also makes your ipad mini look like a moleskine book.

bootsnip.com

• login as your current admin user
• navigate to users > all users
• add a new user
• make sure the role is ‘administrator’
• give the user the desired username that you want

the next steps are:

• logout of your current admin account
• log back in as your new admin user
• navigate to users > all users
• delete your old admin user.

WordPress will now ask what you want to do with the posts created by your old admin user. Simply pick your new admin users name from the drop down list and assign them all to your new user.

you now have a new administrator account with a different username :D

i prefer centigrade, because I understand it.

open the clock (trust me)
goto ‘world clock’
hit edit at the top right
at the bottom of this menu you will see F and C
pick your preferred scale :)