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Sometimes a window can get stuck under the top toolbar in OS X. This often happens when I use Citrix in OS X to run Windows applications. When this happens it’s not possible to grab the window nor  to close it. A simple solution for this is to press [fn] [shift] [F2] which will move the application window a bit which allows you to grab it.

Logitech has yet to release updated keyboard and mice drivers for OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard. I’m quite fond of my Logitech MX 510 mouse and wanted this problem fixed as soon as possible.

I used the instruction from the link below which tells you to download the “Logitech Control Center”, locate the “Logitech Control Center.mkpg” file inside the “Logitech Control Center Installer.app” and execute it. This will by-pass the OS X version check inside the Logitech installer.

I however wanted to use the installer for my mouse MX 510 which uses the “LCC Installer 2.app”. I followed the same instructions, located the “Logitech Control Center.mkpg” and executed it which successfully got the driver installed.

I found the solution to this problem here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/01/snow-leopard-get-your-logitech-mouse-and-keyboard-working-again/

I noticed that I had almost no space left on my MacBook and I couldn’t see a good reason why I would have so little space left. In Windows I used an excellent application called WinDirStat to find out what was wasting space on my harddrive, and I was glad to see that there’s a similar app for OS X called Disk Inventory X. Both of these free and excellent applications  shows you a graphical tree map that makes it easy to see what is using up your disk space. In my case it turned out to be Entourage which due to frequent crashes had led to multiple copies of the Entourage database. I deleted several copies of the database and recovered a lot of space.

Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/

Location of Entourage files: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/path/index.html#ent_db

I had a need to identify what process ID (PID) on my MacBook running OSX that had a specific IP address and port open so that I could kill it. It took me a while to figure this out but eventually I found something that worked.

lsof -i

This will show you

COMMAND     PID     USER        FD   TYPE  DEVICE     SIZE/OFF  NODE  NAME
Microsoft   280     someuser    15u  IPv4  0x8862e64       0t0  TCP   *:3546 (LISTEN)
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