Well, SoftwareUpdates are that easy on a mac that I normally wouldn’t blog about it.
But today I used another nice feature around the Software Update.
As I have one of my Macs at home, connecting remote mostly with “Back to my Mac”
today I wanted to start the software update.
For whatever reasons Back to my Mac hang up and I could only connect via ssh.
But Terminal and this post from TUAW to the rescue:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

will install all available updates from the Terminal! Great, works fine!

Well, after writing the last post about using SVN with all your built-in tools on the mac I felt over the built-in svn version.
As I had updated my svn via MacPorts and therefore set my PATH to somewhere in /opt I had the problem if I created a Repository with SVN 1.6 my Apache-URL for SVN didn’t work.
Naturally it couldn’t because it used svn version 1.4.4. So to fix this little problem the easiest way is to get the Universal Binary of the Subversion Client from Collabnet.

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First to say I really have a svn repository for everything. As for this I like to use some functionalities to browse and use SVN smartly. And well nearly everthing you need is already on your Mac ( if you are a mac ).

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… or better what I tell my friends for about 3 years now!
Read on this article “The “Macs Are Too Expensive” Debate: It’s Ultimately Futile”
at the Apple Blog.

Finally the guys from Skype made it to the AppStore! I have downloaded the Skype-App today on my iPhone and tested it a bit.
So first of all:
Calls are only possible if you are connected to a wlan. But then it works like a charm. I’m really impressed for you it is like
making a call over your provider.

Chats are possible also via 3G, so if you chat a lot over skype, go get it.

And I’m looking forward to use the Phone-Option more (hopefully we have the margenta as provider and therefore a lot of access points available

Gestern wurde es also vorgestellt, dass neue OS 3.0 für das iPhone. Und ich muss sagen:
Respekt, einige Wünsche der Benutzer wurden anscheinend wirklich gehört! Hier meine Favoriten:

• Copy & Paste, super, endlich!
• Spotlight auf dem iPhone, lange vermisst
• Landscape Mode für alle Haupt-Anwendungen
• Peer-to-Peer via Bluetooth

Einige Screenshots kann man sich bei AppleInsider schon anschauen:
Screenshots vom iPhone OS 3.0

Vor allem die Umsetzung von Copy & Paste gefällt mir auf den Screenshots sehr gut, mal sehen, wie die finale Version des OS 3.0 dann aussieht,
ich bin sehr gespannt!

… for Mac OS X Users I felt over in the last few weeks. Here are my favourite ones:

Show Path in Finder:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

Restart Finder afterwards via killall Finder or the Force Quit Option.
(found via TUAW)

Change Backup Interval of TimeMachine

This is really nice, if you want other Backup Times for your TimeMachine permanently.

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-autoStartInterval -int 7200

The time you pass to this command will be the backup interval in seconds, so this command will backup every 2 hours e.g.
(I think I got this also from TUAW, but haven’t found the URL yet…)

Software Update

I like this one, because I like to use cron for such tasks. So here it comes the software update command via your Terminal:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

( and guess what? Also via TUAW)