Apple / Mac

DNS, Lookupd and OS X

by damonp on November 15, 2007

in Apple / Mac

Pre-Leopard the command to force OS X to flush and reload it’s DNS cache was:

sudo lookupd -flushcache

In Leopard, lookupd no longer exists. Instead force a DNS cache refresh with:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

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MailAnnounce Applescript Source

by damonp on October 9, 2007

in Apple / Mac,Development

I have received several requests for the source of my MailAnnounce script that is able to speak the subject of mails using Mail.app and Applescript.

Source for version 1 of the script is now available.

Popularity: 1%

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Bootp Session Transmit Error

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Network Printing from a Mac to XP

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Advanced OSX Mail Searches

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Hack to Open Popup Pages in Main Window

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Virtual IPs Under OSX

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To add a virtual loopback address: sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.0.0

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iTerm and Growl

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Recent versions of iTerm support Growl notifications. iTerm shows how to initiate Growl events from the command line with: make; echo $’\e]9;make done\007′ The example shows how to get an alert after a long make. I know I would never remember that command so I wrote a little Bash user defined function to do the [...]

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iTunes and Links to Music Store

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Why don’t we have the option to switch this to a search of or sort to that artist or album in our own library? In this age of hyperliked everything, I can’t believe something so simple isn’t.

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MailAnnounce AppleScript Update

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MailAnnounce is an AppleScript which can be used to speak the sender and subject of incoming mails using Mail.app. Due to the great feedback I received, I have cleared up a bug and added a few new features. v1.2 Changelog -now skips read messages, this correct a bug some users reported that would speak all [...]

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