If your Google Chrome browser is acting awkward with fonts (displays all “A” characters, or default font turns into Times New Roman) instead of serif fonts, you may need to clean your Mac OS X Font Cache. Quit all running applications (otherwise, you may see font oddities after using the command), then open Terminal (in…
Continue ReadingMac OS X: Make ~/Library Visible on Lion
Power users will be quick to discover that Mac OS X Lion has made the users library folder (~/Library) invisible. Copy/paste directly into terminal: chflags nohidden ~/Library/
Continue ReadingMac OS X: Get Front Row for Mac OS X Lion
If you like Front Row and are disappointed in Lion leaving it behind, you can easily get it working again just by copying a couple files over from the prior OS version. Manually Enabling Front Row for OS X Lion This will require access to a Mac OS X 10.6 installation. The following Front Row…
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