Saturday, November 10, 2012

How to add " Go to Folder " button in Mac Finder

How to add " Go to Folder " button in Mac Finder

If you are one of those who switched to Mac from Windows, then you will surely miss one ability of windows explorer. In windows we can go to any folder by simply writing the folder's Path in Navigation Bar of Explorer. In Mac we can go to any folder directly by hitting " Shift + Command + G ". And then entering the path to which we want to navigate to. But it is tedious to everytime press this 3 key combination to just go to specific folder.

So, in this tutorial I'll make one Button and hitting which will open the navigation bar to enter the Path we want to go to.

Please follow below tutorial to do so.

1. Go to Applications - > Utilities and run Apple ScriptEditor.

2. Copy and Paste Below lines in it. Then Click on Run to Check it.

tell application "Finder" to activate

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "g" using {shift down, command down}

end tell


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3. Now Click on File Menu - > Save and then Give any file name like " Go to Folder ". And from drop down menu for file type, select " Application. And select the location where you want to save. and hit Save.

 

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4. Go to the location where you saved the Application. Now Select the just created application and while pressing the Control Key click on the Application. It will open up one menu. In that menu Click on " Show Package Contents "

5. Now in that go to Content Folder. And open info.plist file.

6.  Add following two lines as below screenshot and save the file.

<key>NSUIElement</key> 
<string>1</string>

 Screen Shot 2012 11 10 at 11 21 10 PM

 

7. This Step is Optional : Now close the Application folder. And again Contol + Click on your " Go to Folder " Application folder and select Get Info. At the vary bottom select the lock icon and drag and drop the icon (. png file) you want to assign and close it. ( This will not work in OS X Mountain Lion. Alternatively you can use CandyBar application to change the icon )

8. Open Finder and Drag and Drop your " Go to Finder " application on top bar having lots of buttons. 

9. Now every time you want to directly go to any folder just click on it and it will open " Go to Folder " navigation bar. Just enter the path you want to go and hit enter.

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10. Enjoy..!!

For lazy people I am uploading the application, so just download the app from below link and directly follow step 8 and 9 and you are done. Enjoy..!! 

Download link : Go To Folder

 

 

Friday, September 21, 2012

Transfer and Install Apps to/from iPhone without iTunes.

Prerequisites:

      1.      You must have itunes installed in PC/MAC.
      2.      You have Jailbroken iPhone with Cydia Installed. ( Refer here for more details on Jailbreaking  and to Jailbreak head over to iClarified.)
      3.      You have installed “Installous” in iPhone (You can install it by adding http://cydia.hackulo.us/ repo in Cydia.) For more information visit here. For detailed guide on how to add repo in Cydia, Follow our Guide here.

Steps:
1.       Download and install ifunbox for Mac/PC from here : http://www.i-funbox.com/
2.       Connect iphone to ifunbox (Close itunes )


3.     Go to Installous in ifunbox.
4.     Drag and Drop apps which you want to install from PC to Installous  in ifunbox.
5.     Open Installous in IPhone.
6.     Go to Downloads tab in it.
7.     Tap on App and select Install.
8.     Done.

      In reverse manner, if you have downloaded any apps in Installous (Though I won’t encourage you to download pirated apps) then, you need to transfer those apps to iTunes otherwise when you’ll sync it with iTunes, it’ll get deleted. To do that, follow below steps.


1.    Follow above steps 1 to 3
2.    Select the app you have downloaded in installous in ifunbox.
3.    Click on transfer to PC.
4.    Move the transferred apps to Users\[Username]\Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications.   
5.    Disconnect the iPhone and run iTunes.    
6.    Drag and drop copied apps from Users\[Username]\Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications to itunes Application tab.    
7.    Connect the iPhone and Sync.    
8.    Enjoy..!!

Add Repo to Cydia

Please follow below steps to add repo to cydia :

      1.       Open Cydia.
      2.       Go to Manage tab at the bottom of the screen. Tap Manage and then tap Sources in next Screen.
      3.       After hitting Sources, Tap the Edit button on the top right portion of the screen. Now tap on Add button on the top left.
      4.       Now Cydia will ask you to enter the Cydia/APT URL. Now this is where you input the repo or source address. Make sure that you enter the address accurately and must be typed exactly as they appear or else it will not work. In this case, we will be adding the address for the Insanelyi repo which is: http://repo.insanelyi.com
      5.       Once you have successfully added the Cydia source, the URL will be verified. Cydia will then update its repository database which will only take a few seconds. Once the update is done, you should see a Return to Cydia button, tap it.
     6.       At this point, you are pretty much done. You should be able to see the newly added Cydia repo on your list of sources. In order to view the packages that are hosted in that certain repo, simply tap on it.
      7.      Enjoy..!!
Source : Jaxov

Multiboot Windows 8 (VHD Installation) with Windows 7/vista and Windows XP by installing Windows 8 on External HDD.


Windows doesn’t let you install itself on an external USB HDD but if you want to do that then how to do it?

This guide will show you how to do that.
By following below step you can install windows 8 on VHD and then by transferring that VHD to external HDD and modifying your BCD file you can make it boot from that external HDD.

New Windows 8 Boot menu is graphical and it doesn’t support Windows xp so after installing windows 8 your XP will not boot.
But with this guide you can make that Xp boot again.

In this guide I won’t cover how to install XP and Windows Vista/7 and dual boot them. I am assuming that you already have xp and vista or xp and 7 or vista and 7 or only one of those windows already installed.

I will cover only installing windwos 8 to VHD , transferring that VHD to external HDD and altering your BCD file to make it dual/triple boot with OS.
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You’ll need following:

    1.   4Gb/8Gb USB Stick (Pen Drive) to install Windows 8.
    2.   External HDD (if you want to install Windows 8 to external HDD)
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Step 0.1 : install windows xp (optional)
Step 0.2 : install windows vista/7 (so now you have dual boot configuration of Xp and windows vista/7)
OR
Step 0.3 : install windows xp/vista/7 alone.
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Now there may be following Two category of users.

Category 1 :Those Who will need plop manager in Step 14.

Those users can’t transfer windows 8 vhd to external HDD after dualbooting windows xp/vista/7 with windows 8.

So they can dualboot their existing windows with new windows 8 but they can’t transfer windows 8 to external HDD.
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Sub Categories:

(Category 1 users with vista/7 & New Win 8)
Follow Steps 1 to 36 –  And Skip step no. 24, 25 & 28 to 32
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(Category 1 users with Xp & New Win8)
Follow Steps 1 to 21 & 37 to 44 (Skip other Steps).
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Category 2 : Those Who will not need plop manager in Step 14

These users can transfer windows 8 vhd to external HDD and can boot to windows 8 from external HDD.
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Sub Categories:

(Category 2 users with Xp & Win8)
These users also can’t transfer Win8 vhd to external HDD as windows Xp boot loader will not support it. Hence, for them guide is same as Category 1 users with Xp & Win8

Follow Steps 1 to 21 & 37 to 44 (Skip other Steps).
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(Category 2 users with vista/7 & Win 8)
These users can transfer windows 8 vhd to external HDD and can boot to windows 8 from external HDD.
Follow Steps 1 to 36 And Skip Step No.33
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(Category 2 users with vista/7 & Win 8 & windows xp – Triple boot)
These users can transfer windows 8 vhd to external HDD and can boot to windows 8 from external HDD.
Follow Steps 1 to 36
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Steps : Installing windows 8 on VHD.

   1)   Download windows 8 from Here :Windows 8.
   2)   Download Windows 7 USB to DVD download tool and install it on your Windows device.  Download it Fromhere or from here.
   3)   Insert an empty USB device (8GB for x64 or with Tools or 4GB for x86.) 
   4)   Start the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool and follow the steps. Select the Windows 8 ISO by clicking BROWSE button 
   5)    

   6)   Choose your USB disk/ PEN Drive (it will erase all your DATA )   
   7)   Hit begin Copying.  
   8)   After few minutes it’ll compete copying setup files to usb stick.
   9)    


10)For windows vista/7 Users. (Xp Users Go to step 11)
1)   Now right Click on MY Computer and hit MANAGE.
2)   Click on DISK MANAGEMENT.
3)   Now click on Action Menu on Top and select CREATE VHD.
4)   Click on browse and go to location where you want to create VHD (For this Guide I Choose D:\) (25Gb free space required.)
5)   Name win8 and hit Save.
6)   Choose Dynamically Expanding and Choose 20 GB and Hit Ok.
7)   It’ll create and attach VHD automatically.
8)  
9)   Done.

11)For Windows XP Users.
1) Click on startmenu and go to RUN.
2) Type “cmd” and hit enter. (without Quotes)
3) Type following Command.

·         DISKPART
·         CREATE VDISK FILE="D:\Win8.vhd" TYPE=Expandable MAXIMUM=20000
·         SELECT VDISK FILE="D:\VHD\Win8.vhd"
·         ATTACH VDISK
·         CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
·         EXIT


12)   Restart PC and Go to your Bios using F2 OR Whatever maybe the key.
13)   Set USB disk as First Boot Device.

14)   For those PCs which don’t have USB boot support & hence can’t boot from USB disk – Follow this guide here to boot from USB device on unsupported pc.

1.Follow Plop manager guide to boot from USb.
2.Once booted to windows 8 installation after following above plop manager guide follow rest of this guide from step 16 onwards.


15)   Close and save Bios and PC will restart now press any key when it prompts to and it will start booting Windows 8 Installation setup from your just crested USB Stick.

16) Choose for a Custom installation, dont select an existing partition but just press SHIFT&F10 simultaneously and it’ll open a command Prompt. Now type the following commands :
  • DISKPART
  • SELECT VDISK FILE="D:\Win8.vhd"
  • ATTACH VDISK
  • EXIT

Now hit Alt+Tab to switch to Windows installation screen again and press Refresh. That way the new created VHD partition becomes available.
17)   Just install Windows 8 on the selected VHD partition, and let installation compete. It’ll take about 20 min or so.
18)   During installation it’ll reboot for few times let it do don’t interrupt the process. After that Windows 8 will be started. Select your network connection and follow default first time setup steps and enjoy new windows 8.

19)   After the next restart a boot menu becomes available. When choose Options here, there's the choice between Windows 7 (existing OS) and Windows Developer Preview (Windows 8).
20)    
21)  
22)

Category 1 (Those Who needed plop manager in Step 14)
(for those who needed plop manager in Step 14  cannot transfer windows 8 vhd to external HDD)
(Category 1 users with vista/7 & Win 8 & windows Xp - TripleBoot)
Follow Steps 23 to 36 –  And Skip step no. 24, 25 & 28 to 32
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(Category 1 users with Xp & Win8)
Follow Steps 37 to 44 - And Skip step no. 23 to 36
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Category 2 (Who didn’t needed plop manager in Step 14)
 (Category 2 users with Xp & Win8)

follow steps 37 to 44 and skip steps 23 to 36.

These users also can’t transfer Win8 vhd to external HDD as windows Xp boot loader will not support it. Hence, for them guide is same as Category 1 users with Xp & Win8.
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(Category 2 users with vista/7 & Win 8)
Follow Steps 23 to 36 And Skip Step No.33
If you don’t want to transfer Windows 8 to external HDD then skip steps 24, 25 & 28 to 32.
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(Category 2 users with vista/7 & Win 8 & windows xp – Triple boot)
(for those who have dualbooted Xp and Vista/7,so now to add XP back to boot menu follow below steps after booting to Windows Vista/7. )
Follow Steps 23 to 36
If you don’t want to transfer Windows 8 to external HDD then skip steps 24, 25 & 28 to 32.
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Steps :

23)Boot to your existing OS by simply hitting Windows 7
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24)   Copy your Win8.vhd and transfer it to USB HDD. (For those who want to boot it from external usb HDD ) for e.g. D:\ to F:\
25)   Once copied it to new location attach it again by following below steps.
  • DISKPART
  • SELECT VDISK FILE="F:\Win8.vhd" (I’ve transferred it from D: to F: )
  • ATTACH VDISK
  • EXIT
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26)    Go here and download EASYBCD. (It is free for non-commercial use)
27)     Now install it and run it.
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28)   Go to Add Entry Section and in Portable/External Media Section go to WinPE Tab.
29)   Select Type : Extracted File System Layout.
30)   Type in the name Microsoft Windows 8
31)   Select your external HDD where you transferred your VHD. (in my case F:\)
32)   Click EMS enabled and Hit add Entry.

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33)   For those who had Windows Xp dual booted with windows vista/7 and want Xp back,  On upper Section i.e. Operating system, in Add Entry Section – Select Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 and hit add entry button.

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34)   Now go to Edit Boot menu Section and set Windows Vista/7/xp as Default OS (whichever you want to set as default by checking Checkbox besides their Entry)
35)   Set boot time to 10 seconds and hit SAVE settings.


36)   Go to View Settings to check the entries and then restart the PC and enjoy your Multi boot menu with all the entries i.e windows xp/vista/7/8.
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37)     Boot to existing Windows 8 and go to Desktop from MetroUI.
38)   Go here and download EASYBCD. (It is free for non-commercial use)
39)   Now install it and run it.
40)   If it didn’t get installed in windows 8 or after installation didn’t run then follow below steps :
§  To get easybcd 2 to run on windows 8  go to "Control Panel" (view by large icons (much easier)) then go to "Programs and features" now at the top right under view installed updates you should see "Turn Windows Features on or off" click it and wait.

§  Now in the small window that pops up scroll down to "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1" make sure that you have NOTHING RUNNING and tick the box so that a blue square shows in the tick box .. thats all not a full tick in the box all you want is a blue box then click on the "ok" button wait ..then load easy bcd 2 .

41)   Go to Add Entry Section and in upper Section i.e. Operating system – Select Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 and hit add entry button.


42)   Now go to Edit Boot menu Section and set Windows XP as Default OS by checking Checkbox besides its Entry.
43)   Set boot time to 10 seconds and hit SAVE settings.
44)   Go to View Settings to check the entries and then restart the PC and hit on Windows Xp to boot to windows Xp.

Hope this helpes..!!