How to force internet recovery on Mac osx

Although Mac osx is very stable, sometimes thing go wrong. And Murphy's law suggests it goes wrong on the worst possible time. Recently my Mac start being very very slow and irresponsive. I tried to check disk permission and first aid. Ther e were bunch of permission issues, I fixed all but one. I searched for the remaining one online and found that it it not important yet my Mac runs extremely slow. So I decided to format it. You can boot from recovery partition if you configured one by holding alt key on boot up. But in my case even recovery partition was unusably slow. So I searched and found a short cut for internet recovery,

Press option+command+r on boot up and you will go to internet recovery

If you press command+r it will point you to recovery partition or internet depending on whether or not recovery partition is configured.

I hope you don't need to use this. In case you needed I hope it helps.

How to write to NTFS drives on Mac OSX

Mac OSX comes with NTFS drivers only for reading. You may ask why do i need read and write support. That is because the file system drivers mac comes with have some limitations. HFS is only visible to mac that means if you have an HFS external drive you can not see content on a pc (for HFS driver for pc see this article). If you choose to use fat32 you can not copy files larger than 4 gb. And fat and exfat are not very safe (I mean dependable if you take your external hard drive without removing it first it can damage and it damages a lot...). Also last but not least if you use bootcamp and have a windows on your mac you will want to transfer files between your OS'.

So here comes the manual. There are couple of third party application which offer faster speeds and support (like paragon and tuxera) . But if you are a freebie like me you would prefer a free solution.

Here are the steps

1.  Download and install osxfuse from  http://osxfuse.github.io/
2. Make sure to check "MacFuse compatibility layer" when prompted.
   
3.  Download and install NTFS-3G from http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/10/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010102.html
4. If you are using Lion or above, you also need to download and install fuse-wait from https://github.com/bfleischer/fuse_wait/downloads
5.  That's it enjoy your ability to read/write to NTFS volumes!

source:
http://www.macbreaker.com/2014/06/how-to-enable-writing-to-ntfs-hard.html

How to get rid of the new button on Chrome

Year 2014 was the year I learnt not to update. Any software update brought me anything but limitation. On the case of browsers though it is hard to resist update since they contain security patches. One recent update that disappointed me is by google chrome. After the update there is a "Person" button appeared on the right top corner of the window and it is occupying a lot of space.

Also I don't sign in to chrome so it is not useful at all.  To remove that button you can follow the steps below. Note that this is applicable to windows systems as well.

Steps
1. On your chrome browser go to "about://flags"
2. Find "Enable the new avatar menu"

3. From the radio button select "Disabled"
4. You are done. Restart your browser and enjoy.