OSX

I’ve finally managed to switch off the final remnant of the Top Sites feature in Safari 4, the automatic generation of ‘Webpage Previews’ I’ve previously written about how to Reclaim Disk Space From Safari 4, where I detailed how to set up a job to cleanup the Webpage Previews cache folder. Luckily, that exercise has now become obsolete, thanks to reports on several sites, which I can’t remember. Below are listed the Terminal commands to verify disk use and apply the changes to Safari. ...

Working with a new client and getting back to my roots of doing pure frontend development, I had to set up a virtual host for development on my MBP. When working with Rails, I usually just use script/server and/or Passenger to serve my applications… in this situation i just needed to serve some static files. I found Mark Kirby’s excellent tutorial on Setting up virtual hosts on OS X Leopard and am posting it here, so I won’t forget in the future. ...

Having a MacBook Pro that seems to be continually low on disk space, I set out to tidy up a bit using the excellent and free OmniDiskSweeper. It will help you identify where all your disk space is going. Use with caution though, and always have a recent backup. After tidying up all over the file system, I noticed that the Safari cache was enourmous … 1.2GB in my case. Further investigation revealed that most of that space was taken up by Webpage Previews, used by the top sites feature in Safari 4. As I don’t care for that feature, I have disabled it with the following command ...