Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.8 in my case) can read and write natively NTFS drive/partitions:

the easiest way I found is this

Rename the original /sbin/mount_ntfs tool:

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig

Create a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@"

save the script to /sbin/mount_ntfs

sudo chown root:wheel /sbin/mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 /sbin/mount_ntfs

Enjoy R/W access to NTFS volumes...

In case you don't like it

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig /sbin/mount_ntfs

and everything is back to R/O.

thanks to iBlacky

EDIT: This procedure does not work with Lion OSX 10.7.x

This is the question I want to answar today:

How do I change the myplaces.kml location?

It is very simple if you are confident with regedit:

- close Google Earth
- open regedit
- edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus\KMLPath with the path you want to use
- restart Google Earth

After an entire week of .NET debugs and brainstorming I found this post from DCHUEN that saved my life:

I experienced the same problem.  If you are still looking for the answer, this may help.

Check the version of custtask.dll.  It is usually located in the “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQLServer\80\Tools\Binn\” folder.  If your DTS package containing the FTP task was created with a newer version of custtask.dll, you cannot open it again with an older version of custtask.dll.

To solve the problem, compare the versions of custtask.dll you have, replace the old one with the new one.  You don’t need to register the dll.  Restart the Enterprise Manager and try again.

Hope this help!

Here is a small script I wrote for Greasemonkey extension

It removes the top and left ads banner in the my eBay page

I found this way to change the icon and the display name in the SpringBoard to the very useful Speed Dial app for iPhone.
This application create an icon in your SpringBoard to dial directly a phone number, wihout confirmation and without using Safari (as other applications do)

1. First of all prepare a 60×60 PNG icon with the picture of the contact to dial with this application, and name it Icon.png
2. Connect your iPhone to the computer (Windows or MAC) go in iTunes and remove the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected”
3. If you already have Speed Dial #1 installed remove it and delete it from the iTunes library
4. Now you can “purchase” (it is free) the application: at this moment the .ipa file is only copied to your computer (in Windows it is under “My Documents” in “My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications” folder )
5. Rename the “Speed Dial 1 1.5.ipa” file in “Speed Dial 1 1.5.ipa.zip”
6. Open the new Zip file: in the “Payload\Speed Dial 1.app” folder you can see the original Icon.png file, replace it with the one prepared at point 1.
7. In the same zip folder there is a file called “Info.plist”: it is an XML binary file and we need to modify it, so you can extract, modify and replace the original or simply open the one in the zip file (in Windows I use PropertyList Editor, see below)
8. In the “Info.plist” file find the “CFBundleDisplayName” key and modify the relative string from “Speed Dial 1″ to whatever you want, save the file and replace the original one in the zip file.
9. Now you are ready to install the application on your iPhone. Sync it and test: at the first click the application should ask for the contact to dial.

For sure this tutorial works on a jailbroken iPhone, if someone can test it on a non JB iPhone, please let me know if it works

thanks