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How do you get those fancy hearts, or other unicode characters, without going to the character palette?

Add the Unicode Hex Input via the International System Preference pane and then hold down shift-alt and type in your unicode character code. shift-alt-2665 is the solid black heart.

A desktop app for twitter; from the Icon Factory folks comes Twitterific.

I can now mount ssh filesystems on my desktop. God bless Google. This also means that you won’t have to be mucking around with FTP as much as you do nowadays.

Reboot the VM, and at the grub menu, hit ‘e’ and ‘e’ again to edit the kernel boot parameters.

Change the line from

kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom

to:

kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom,atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0

From spod.cx

1. Download MySQL for Mac OS X. You want the “Standard” distribution.
2. Install the both the MySQL binary package and the Startup Item (which you can disable later) as well as the Preference Pane.
3. Open the MySQL System Preference Pane; Click start.
4. Set your root MySQL password, by opening the Terminal.app and typing the following /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password yourpasswordhere. This part is extremely important. Don’t screw it up!
5. Download CocoaMySQL. Make sure to get the beta if you have an Intel Mac.
6. Create your databases and have fun!