The LaunchAgent file “com.google.keystone.agent.plist” is used to activate the Google Updater on each boot and every 2 hours while logged in. The file is located here:
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
Pretty sneaky to slip it in as a LaunchAgent without notifying the end-user, but hey- it gets the job done. I’d guess that Keystone was the internal code name for the product.
Today, I noticed that my Transmit favorites were not properly syncing across computers. Upon closer inspection, one machine did not have the “Transmit Favorites” entry in the MobileMe PrefPane.
I fixed this by unregistering, then re-registering the sync client using the following two commands.
~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmit/TransmitSync.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitSync—unregisterClient
~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmit/TransmitSync.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitSync—registerClient
While researching how to get the Firefly Media Server working on iPhone firmware 2.1, I found the answer (yet again) on RupertGee’s iBlog. This time, he’s included resources for controlling the server with BossPrefs.
Because I do this so infrequently and always wonder why I haven’t posted it before-
Editing a crontab:
crontab -e
i for insert mode
esc to command mode
ZZ to save and exit
Dan Frakes has a nice writeup on AppleJack 1.5 as part of MacWorld’s Mac Gems series.
