5 Apple Tips

I tried in vain to enable distributed compilation in Xcode on a few Snow Leopard machines. Some searching led me to this thread.

This may help if you cannot turn on the Genius feature of iTunes and are using a router and experience a timeout error.

After you performed a Time Machine System Restore, and you start to open some documents in Finder you will get prompts of the kind 'You are opening the application XYZ for the first time. Are you sure you want to open this application?' as if your computer was freshly installed, not having any file/type associations.

In older versions of iTunes you had the option to perform a sync, similar to clicking the Sync button in iSync in Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. For me this was a perfect solution to remember syncing my phones since I connected my iPod once a day to update some smart playlists. To mimic this functionlity I wrote an AppleScript and then attached it as a folder action to the /Volumes folder.

After doing a lot of research and trying out some hints, finally I could install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on an iMac G5 1.8 GHz, and I would like to share with you the solution that I got.