Chris Hutchins

If you’re a Mac user, then you probably get frustrated by the way the tab key functions (or should I say DOESN’T function). When navigating forms, instead of tabbing to drop down boxes or buttons like it would on a PC, the tab key will skip to the next text box or list (see example to the right). Fortunately, there is a simple solution built into OS X.

Step 1: Open up your system preferences and click “Keyboard and Mouse”



Step 2: Click the “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab and in the “Full Keyboard Access” section at the bottom, select “All Controls”



That’s it. Finally you can fill out forms without constantly switching between your keyboard and your mouse / trackpad. If for some reason you don’t want this setting active all the time you can enable/disable it by pressing Ctrl+F7.

All Dreamhost hosting accounts now come with 50gb of free personal backup.I’ve been searching for a while on a good tutorial for this and couldn’t find one, so I thought I would make my own.

1. Setup passwordless login for rsync (can be skipped if you don’t mind typing your password each time you want to sync)

• Open terminal and type the following (press return after each line)


• “ssh-keygen -t dsa” (press enter after all three prompts)


• “scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote”


• “cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub » ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”


• “chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”


• “sftp backupusername@backup.dreamhost.com”


• “lcd /Users/OSXUsername/.ssh


• “mkdir .ssh”


• “put authorized_keys .ssh”

• Open terminal and type the following, then press return


• “rsync -avz BackupFolder backupusername@backup.dreamhost.com:DestinationFolder” (example: “rsync -avz ~/Documents bxxxxxx@backup.dreamhost.com:macbook_backup”)


• Optionally, you can add “—delete” after “-avz” (ie: “-avz —delete “) if you want to delete files on your backup once they’ve been deleted locally

• Still working on this, check back later or leave some advice in the comments. Thanks!

Michael Twomey - http://blogs.translucentcode.org/mick/archives/000230.html
Marc Climent - http://codelog.climens.net/2008/12/03/using-dreamhost-backup-account-with-rsync/

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