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How to Delete Safari, Mail, FaceTime, Photo Booth, and Other Default Mac OS X Apps

 

  • Launch the Terminal, located in /Applications/Utilities/
  • Type the following at the command line to change to the Applications directory:

cd /Applications/

Now that you are in the Applications folder, you can start deleting apps. You will not get a confirmation of the removal, the app will simply be deleted completely. The following commands will only work when used in the /Applications/ directory.

Delete Safari
sudo rm -rf Safari.app/

Delete Mail
sudo rm -rf Mail.app/

Delete FaceTime
sudo rm -rf FaceTime.app/

Delete QuickTime Player
sudo rm -rf QuickTime\ Player.app/

Delete Stickies
sudo rm -rf Stickies.app/

Delete Chess
sudo rm -rf Chess.app/

Delete Photo Booth
sudo rm -rf Photo\ Booth.app


Super Bowl Of Rice And Beans

As it is Sunday, I will not be perusing the televised athletic contest du jour, but preparing for, then executing the trade of cities.

But I can listen to Van Halen while I do it…

This post was originally entitled “Wife Beating Day”, but a quick check of Snopes indicates that the notion of domestic violence increasing sharply on Super Bowl Sunday simply isn’t true.


NPR Puzzle

Next Week’s Challenge: Name an animal. Add the letters “A” and “T,” and rearrange the result to name another animal. These are both animals that might be found in a zoo, and the last letter of the first animal is the first letter of the last one.

Chezeblog Hint: