Recipes

A reference collection of howto information for effective use of the Internet and Mac computers running MacOS-X.

Index

Internet Resources

Link love.

DNS Servers

A list of DNS servers, useful when traveling or trouble-shooting.


OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 (Resolver1.OpenDNS.com)
208.67.220.220 (Resolver2.OpenDNS.com)
SG StarHub: 202.156.1.68
202.156.1.58
203.116.1.78 pridns.starhub.net.sg
203.116.1.94 secdns.starhub.net.sg
SG SingTel: 165.21.83.88
165.21.100.88
SG PacificNet: 192.169.33.3 ns1.pacific.net.sg
203.120.90.40 ns2.pacific.net.sg
203.120.90.43 ns3.pacific.net.sg
203.120.90.44 ns4.pacific.net.sg
SG SingTel: 165.21.83.11 dnssec1.singnet.com.sg
195.13.10.226 dnssec2.singnet.com.sg
165.21.100.11 dnssec3.singnet.com.sg
165.21.83.10 dnssec4.singnet.com.sg
165.21.100.10 dnssec5.singnet.com.sg
195.13.10.224 dnssec6.singnet.com.sg
ORSN: 217.146.139.5 NS1.DE.EU.ORSN.NET
62.157.101.211 RESOLVER.DATA-UNION.NET
UK Pipex: 158.43.240.3
158.43.240.4

NTP Time Servers

Apple: time.asia.apple.com 17.82.254.7
time.euro.apple.com 17.72.133.42
Level-One Time Servers:
Hong Kong: 137.189.6.18: clock.cuhk.edu.hk
Fukuoka, Japan: 133.100.9.2: clock.nc.fukuoka-u.ac.jp
133.100.11.8: clock.tl.fukuoka-u.ac.jp
Melbourne: 128.250.36.2: ntp.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Level-Two Time Servers:
Dublin: ntp.cs.tcd.ie
ntp.maths.tcd.ie
ntp.tcd.ie
Glasgow: ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk
Cambridge: ntp0.uk.uu.net
ntp1.uk.uu.net
ntp2.uk.uu.net
Manchester: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk
ntp2b.mcc.ac.uk
ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk
ntp2d.mcc.ac.uk
Pipex: tick.tanac.net
Singapore: ntp.shim.org
Adelaide: 129.127.28.4 augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
129.127.40.3 ntp.adelaide.edu.au
203.21.37.18 ntp.saard.net
Carlton: 203.21.84.4: time.esec.com.au

Software Inventories

List of software beyond the standard system installation.

MacOS Preference Panes Inventory

DivX
Growl
GPG
Perian
Secrets
Warp

Hidden MacOS-X Panes

Archiver

open /System/Library/CoreServices/Archive\ Utility.app/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane

CPU Palette

In Xcode tools
open /Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/Processor.prefPane