Recently, the need arose to run IE 6 on OS X. Microsoft released IE for OS X but discontinued support in version 5.x. Fortunately, this problem has been solved by running a IE 6 on top of a Wine port on OS X. The simple steps below describe how to get this running:

• Download and install Darwine
• Download and install ie4osx

It is as simple as that!

Note: Darwine requires the X11 libraries that come with OS X (not installed by default but ships with the OS X install disks).

When running OS X Leopard, many people are annoyed by the glass dock provided by default. There are serveral applications that can be downloaded to remove this but we found a very easy way of removing the glass dock. In a shell type:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

Next, it is time to remove a couple of files. Type the following:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources

Delete the glass dock images by typing:

sudo rm -Rf bottom*.png

Now it is time to restart your dock:

killall Dock

That is all!

It is possible to empty the trash in OS X from the command line by running the following command in the terminal:

rm -Rf ~/.Trash/*

This command permanently removes all the files you have placed in your OS X trash bin.