First, we’ll create a new event on Google Calendar called ‘Christmas Party’.

Then, click on it to edit it.

You can change your event’s date, location, and description here. You can also edit what guests can view this event…

Click ‘Add Guests’ to add guests to your event.

Once you’re a guest, you can change information about the event and RSVP for the event. It’s easy to see the vital information of the party, like time and location.

You can find this original post at my personal blog at alexhwang.co.cc

To share the love of the Macheist nanobundle, just click on the link at the top of Macheist.com. It’ll share a little message on your Facebook page about the Macheist nanobundle. If you don’t know what the Macheist nanobundle is, check it out fast before it runs out!

Macheist Nanobundle

To get to this point, you have to take a (about) 30 question page with questions like:

“You are always like to win and aren’t satisfied by ‘getting along’”

You answer the question based on how much this is like yourself, ranging from “Opposite of Me” to “This is Me”

Try it, and see what you turn up with!

Signal Patterns Personality Test

Macheist is now giving out a free software bundle worth $150! It includes good apps like Twitterific, WriteRoom (which I’m using to type this right now), TinyGrab, and Shovebox. TinyGrab is a dead-simple solution to taking screenshots on mac, instantly uploading to a server. Shovebox allows you to take small notes on what you don’t want to forget later, featuring a beautiful interface and seamless integration with the mac operating system.

There is also an app called Hordes of Orcs which I’ve never heard of. I guess if you like that kind of game you would like this.

Mariner Write, a great premium word processor with minimalistic features, will be free for everyone once 500,000 people have signed up. So go ahead and try it!

Macheist gives most of its proceeds to charity, so you can do this with a good feeling in your mind

Macheist Nanobundle

I’m not on my home computer now, but I’m testing it on my sister’s computer (I’m on vacation).

Here’s some new things I’ve seen:

1) Tighter integration with System Preferences and a beautiful GUI

The creator of Geektool said in his ‘About’ page that he made Geektool 3.0 for noobs (opposite of geeks), so they could experience the robustness of Geektool too. This was certainly fulfilled in this release, with a tight, modern new inteface for your geeklets.

I’ve not seen much new in terms of the actual geeklets, except for one thing:

When you edit a shell script, you may click the little “…” next to the command execution input box to have a great, big text box to write and edit your script. This is really helpful for some complicated scripts I run that contain many different functions.

There’s nothing much different about the actual exectution of scripts, so Geektool 3 will probably be nothing major, just a good release for all those ‘noobs’ out there .

I’m using the term “hack” loosely, as I’m just going to detail how to reset your password on your mac; I will show another way after this which involves creating another user account.

Concerning Resetting Password on 10.5 Leopard

If you have been unfortunately locked out of your wonderful new mac running 10.5 Leopard, here’s how to reset your password on it.

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1. Power on or restart your Mac.
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode. [After this you should see black and white letters running down through your screen like you're a hacker]
3. This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step.
4. Type mount -uw / and press Enter. [Mounts the startup disk]
5. Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plistand press Enter.
6. Type ls /Users and press Enter. This lists all of the usernames on the computer – helpful if you don’t know or remember what these are.
7. Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password and replace “username” with one of the users displayed in the previous step. Replace “password” with a new password of your choice. Press Enter.
8. Type reboot and press Enter.

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[Macyourself tutorial]

Concerning Resetting Password on 10.4 Tiger

Be careful to remember that resetting the passwords on these two different operating systems have different instructions, so don’t mix them up. [unless you want to potentially destroy your system]

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1. Power on or restart your Mac.
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.
3. Type sh /etc/rc and press Enter/Return.
4. Type passwd username and replace “username” with the short name of the user account for which you’d like to reset the password.
5. Type your desired password and press Enter. It won’t show itself on the screen, so be careful what you type. You will most likely have to enter it again to confirm.
6. Type reboot and press Enter.

[Macyourself tutorial]

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If you don’t want to mess around with command-line password resetting,

don’t. The ways detailed above are much faster than creating a whole new account and registering a new account. Anyways, you still must use the command line to delete the systems files Mac OS reads during startup, and that could be catastrophic, even resulting in your computer not being able to start up. But, if you want to, just read the article I’ve hyperlinked twice above. [Macyourself tutorial].

If you want all this stuff good and printed so it’s ready in your desk whenever you need it, (ahh)

I’ve created a pdf with this info. It’s located here: [Click Here]

Well, that’s it! Just remember to use your new-found power wisely and not on a computer that’s not your own because that’s… hacking! Thanks for reading and please rate this post!

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