This is an introductory tutorial on using InstaDMG, a OSX package and image maker, to create clean never booted disk images of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. Previous tutorials on InstaDMG and OSX 10.7 has three parts, base image, base image + user, base image + user and system modifications. For those not familiar InstaDMG is …
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Is Yours Good Enough to take on the Mavericks?
Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.9 Mavericks between September-November this year. At this stage of the game the new OSX will run on pretty much the same machines as its predecessor OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. You’ll need a 64bit Intel processor, 8GBs of free disk space – if upgrading as appose …
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Viewing the Source Code on iPhone and iPads using Safari Webkit Development Tools
To view the html or css source code on iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad there is another quicker method than using Adobe Edge Inspector – and that is to use Safari’s webkit web inspector. This will work on devices with iOS6 plus and a modern Safari version. You can also use the iOS …
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Responsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress
If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that have hard coded inline style width and height attributes. In WordPress not only do you …
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Installing phpMyAdmin on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks & 10.8, 10.7, 10.6
To interact with MySQL by instead of using the command line, phpMyAdmin comes to the rescue, to get it running as part of your local development set up on OS X, a couple of steps need to be done. phpMyAdmin is a browser application that interacts with the underlying mysql data. These steps will work on …
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Tomcat
You’ve bought your SSL secure certificate and successfully installed on Tomcat with the keytool but how do your redirect the entire site to go HTTPS and redirect any HTTP connection straight over to HTTPS. You need to edit the 2 Tomcat configuration files; server.xml and web.xml and then when edited restart the tomcat service. Open …
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How to Install mcrypt for php on Mac OSX Lion 10.8 & 10.7 Development Server
The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. The above error appears after you successfully get phpMyAdmin up and running on OS X, generally you don’t have to worry about it, you only need to address the error if you are going to use a web application that requires it, for example Magento, the shopping …
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Update Jailbroken iPhone to iOS 6.1.2 Untethered with evasi0n
This process upgrades your iOS jailbroken device to iOS 6.1.2 If you need your baseband preserved because you are on locked iphones and need the baseband to unlock with ultrasn0w then stay away from this and wait until the next version of redsn0w. For this jailbreak you will need to upgrade your jailbroken iPhone to …
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