How to put icons in the OSX dock
You can create an alias of the Application, then drag-and-drop it onto the dock; or;
Just open the Application for the first time—lots of ways to do to this, I always like to just hit Spotlight (cmd+spacebar), type the name of the app, then enter—when the application is opened, the icon will be visible in the [...]
Mac Mini microphone hack
The usual mic used in PC’s and headset-mic combos won’t work with the mac mini–the mac mini mic input requires line level input, meaning the mic needs to be powered. The usual mic input for PCs are mic level input (about 1 millivolt, the mic doesn’t need to be powered). Bottom line is, if you [...]
Mac driver for Samsung ML-1610
The ML-1610 Samsung laser printer has worked before on Leopard (OSX 10.5), I remember going to the Samsung site and downloading a driver–it was pretty painless then. For some reason, when I wiped out the installation of Leopard and installed Snow Leopard from scratch, the OSX driver on the Samsung site has disappeared, all of [...]
Connect Mac OSX to a CUPS printer
Snow Leopard update for connecting OSX to a CUPS printer
Updated 3.Nov.2009 – Without any configuration change on the same CUPS printer of this setup, Snow Leopard detected the installed printers on the CUPS server using zeroconf (Bonjour). Right after a clean install of Snow Leopard, just go to Printer and Fax preferences pane, you should [...]