Why is MacOS Ignoring Hosts File Entries

Why is MacOS Ignoring Hosts File Entries

While helping a co-worker I found what appeared to be the most bizarre behavior on their mac. They had set an entry in their hosts file which pointed a domain at a VPN’d internal network address. Normally this would allow the user to bypass the normal DNS...
Disable Dashboard in Mac OS X

Disable Dashboard in Mac OS X

Now you might be thinking why would I want to Disable Dashboard in Mac OSX? Well heres a bit of history… When Apple released Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) one of the bold new features that it had rolled into it was the “Dashboard”, a quick and easy to access...