Hosts File on Mac

by | Aug 15, 2008 | Apple

I can never remember the path to the hosts file on my MacBook Pro. So, here it is: sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Sync iCal with Google Calendar

by | Jul 29, 2008 | Apple, Uncategorized

Products like Spanning Sync allow you to sync your iCal with your Google calendar. Now Google has a new service called “Google Calendar CalDAV” that allows you to do the same thing. Details at: Enable Google Calendar in iCal I tried it and it works very...

Use cURL instead of wget on Mac OS X

by | Jul 2, 2008 | Apple, Linux

I use wget all the time on my Linux machines, but was surprised to find it missing on my MacBook Pro. Since Mac OS is based on BSD, it uses cURL instead. Here’s a good way to scrape files from a remote server. curl -O...