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Chapter 1. Files
1.1 Hacks #1-12
Hack 1 Understanding and Hacking Your User Account
Hack 2 Taking the Bite Out of Backup
Hack 3 Backing Up on the Go
Hack 4 Dealing with Archives of Many Colors: .img, .sit, .tar, .gz
Hack 5 A Line Break Is a Line Break
Hack 6 Fiddling with Type/Creator Codes and File Extensions
Hack 7 Locking and Unlocking Files
Hack 8 Stubborn Trash, Stuck Images, and Jammed CDs
Hack 9 Aliases, Symlinks, and Hard Links
Hack 10 Recent Filenames
Hack 11 Inspecting the Contents of an .app Package
Hack 12 Opening Microsoft Word Documents Without Microsoft Word
Chapter 2. Startup
2.1 Hacks #13-17
Hack 13 Getting a Glimpse of the Boot Process
Hack 14 Booting from Another Device
Hack 15 Turning Your Mac into a Hard Drive
Hack 16 Using Open Firmware Password Protection
Hack 17 OS X for This Old Mac
Chapter 3. Multimedia and the iApps
3.1 Hacks #18-32
Hack 18 Top iChat Tips
Hack 19 AIM Alternatives
Hack 20 Printing to PDF or Bitmapped Image
Hack 21 Image Conversion in a Pinch
Hack 22 Top 10 iPhoto Tips
Hack 23 Make Your Own Documentary
Hack 24 From Slideshow to Video Presentation
Hack 25 Hijacking Audio from Mac Apps
Hack 26 Running Your Own Web Radio Station
Hack 27 Sharing Your Listening Preferences
Hack 28 Controlling iTunes with Perl
Hack 29 iCal Calling iTunes
Hack 30 Publishing and Subscribing to iCal Calendars
Hack 31 Using Bluetooth for SMS and Phone-Call Handling
Hack 32 iSync via Bluetooth
Chapter 4. The User Interface
4.1 Hacks #33-47
Hack 33 Finding Your Way Back to the Desktop
Hack 34 Alt-Tab Alt-Ternatives
Hack 35 Putting Things in the Apple Menu
Hack 36 Keeping Your Snippets Organized
Hack 37 LaunchBar, a Dock Alternative
Hack 38 DockSwap, Another Dock Alternative
Hack 39 Tinkering with Your User Interface
Hack 40 Extending Your Screen Real Estate with Virtual Desktops
Hack 41 Top Screenshot Tips
Hack 42 Checking Your Mac's Pulse
Hack 43 Screensaver as Desktop
Hack 44 Dipping Your Pen into Inkwell
Hack 45 Speakable Web Services
Hack 46 Using AppleScript in Contextual Menus
Hack 47 Prying the Chrome Off Cocoa Applications
Chapter 5. Unix and the Terminal
5.1 Hacks #48-65
Hack 48 Introducing the Terminal
Hack 49 More Terminal Tricks and Tips
Hack 50 Becoming an Administrator for a Moment
Hack 51 Editing Special Unix Files
Hack 52 Setting Shell Environment Variables
Hack 53 Scheduling with System Tasks and Other Events
Hack 54 Opening Things from the Command Line
Hack 55 Introducing and Installing the Mac OS X Developer Tools
Hack 56 Top 10 Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
Hack 57 Turning a Command-Line Script into an Application
Hack 58 Installing Unix Applications with Fink
Hack 59 Mirroring Files and Directories with rsync
Hack 60 Using CVS to Manage Data on Multiple Machines
Hack 61 Downloading Files from the Command Line
Hack 62 Software Update on the Command Line
Hack 63 Interacting with the Unix Shell from AppleScript
Hack 64 Running AppleScripts on a Regular Basis Automatically
Hack 65 Running Linux on an iBook
Chapter 6. Networking
6.1 Hacks #66-78
Hack 66 Anatomy of an Internet Shortcut
Hack 67 Renewing Your DHCP-Assigned IP address
Hack 68 Sharing an Internet Connection
Hack 69 Creating a One-Wire Network
Hack 70 Secure Tunneling with VPN or SSH
Hack 71 Remotely Log In to Another Machine via SSH
Hack 72 Running Windows on and from a Mac
Hack 73 Sharing Files Between Mac and Windows PCs
Hack 74 Mounting a WebDAV Share
Hack 75 Mounting a Remote FTP Directory
Hack 76 Exchanging a File via Bluetooth
Hack 77 Using Your Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem
Hack 78 Setting Up Domain Name Service
Chapter 7. Email
7.1 Hacks #79-84
Hack 79 Taming the Entourage Database
Hack 80 Using IMAP with Apple's Mail Application
Hack 81 Setting Up IMAP and POP Mail Servers
Hack 82 Getting sendmail Up and Running
Hack 83 Downloading POP Mail with fetchmail
Hack 84 Creating Mail Aliases
Chapter 8. The Web
8.1 Hacks #85-98
Hack 85 Searching the Internet from Your Desktop
Hack 86 Saving Web Pages for Offline Reading
Hack 87 Reading Syndicated Online Content
Hack 88 Serving Up a Web Site with the Built-In Apache Server
Hack 89 Editing the Apache Web Server's Configuration
Hack 90 Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl
Hack 91 AppleScript CGI with ACGI Dispatcher
Hack 92 Turning on CGI
Hack 93 Turning on PHP
Hack 94 Turning on Server-Side Includes (SSI)
Hack 95 Turning on WebDAV
Hack 96 Controlling Web-Server Access by Hostname or IP Address
Hack 97 Controlling Web-Server Access by Username and Group
Hack 98 Directory Aliasing, Indexing, and Autoindexing
Chapter 9. Databases
9.1 Hacks #99-100
Hack 99 Installing the MySQL Database
Hack 100 Installing the PostgreSQL Database
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