Mac OS X Tips and Tricks

by Peter Jones / April 22, 2008

Hide the Menu On a Per-Application Basis

Use the /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Property List Editor.app to open the Contents/Info.plist file of an application and add a new child to the root node:

Property List Class Value
LSUIPresentationMode Number 4

More information can be found in the Apple developer Runtime Configuration Guidelines.

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DNS Service Discovery and iTunes

You can use the following commands on your local computer to access a remote iTunes (that you have ssh access to):

$ dns-sd -P "any name" _daap._tcp. local 3690 localhost 127.0.0.1 &
$ ssh -N user@server.example.com -L 3690:127.0.0.1:3689

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