Safari. Single click opens new tab
Rather than new window... Another useful Mac setting not available via any UI. Open Terminal window and run following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Tested on Leopard 10.5, Safari 4.
RDC (remote desktop connection) from Mac to Windows
Some useful stuff to remember. To be able to do remote desktop from Mac machine to Windows you need two following things:
1. Create a ssh tunnel in the Terminal application:
ssh SSH_USER@SSH_HOST -LLOCAL_PORT:DEST_HOST:DEST_PORT
DEST_PORT most likely to be 3389 (standard port for RDC)
2. Download CoRD.
Enjoy.
Creating ISO images from DVDs on Mac
So, I started thinking about moving my movie collection from DVDs to a hard drive. HDDs are so cheap right now. You can get 2T disk for about $200. And it will fit most of my 500 movies if I simply convert them to ISO files. ISO format is very convenient, because you can mount it with one click in Mac OS (I use Mini as my media center) and then just run DVDPlayer.
In Windows world DVDShrink will create ISO from DVD and it's free. In MacOS I don't think there is free alternative program. However I found combination of two things that does exactly that:
1. MacTheRipper. Rip your DVD into a folder (with VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS underneath).
2. And then use this command in Terminal to create ISO file:
hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name MYDVD1 -o mydvd.iso DVD_FOLDER
Make sure DVD_FOLDER is a parent folder for VIDEO_TS folder.