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The Terminal is the Mac OS X analogue of the Windows command prompt, or CMD. It's a tool, as you probably already know, that allows you to control your computer using text commands, as opposed to a graphical user-interface. Although using the Terminal can seem a little daunting at first, it will pay off to get familiar with it.
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Do you want an immersive, text-only Google Reader? Try going through your reading list in the terminal. It's easy to do with terminal web browser elinks and Google Reader's mobile interface. Google Reader's interface is famously minimalist, but browsers hardly make ideal reading platforms. eLinks is a text-only browser you can run from the command line.
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There is a ton of information on the Internet about various Terminal commands and ways to customise your Mac or Linux machine with the Terminal. Here are some commands which are really useful and can benefit you if you learn them. Check out these 5 useful commands.
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A while ago I wrote an article about why you should consider giving Ubuntu a go. A few of you asked why I never mentioned Kubuntu, and some seemed convinced that KDE was the way to go. Well guess what? Here’s how you can have both. Ubuntu uses the GNOME desktop environment straight out of [...]
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Conventional wisdom states that graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are easy and the command line is hard. Conventional wisdom isn’t always right. There are a lot of things easier to do with a command line then with a graphical user interface. That’s not to say doing things with a command line is intuitive – no, you [...]
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Let’s cut to the chase and begin with the basics. Do you know the common screenshot keyboard shortcuts? If not, this would be a good time to memorise them. Command+Shift+3 – Takes a screenshot of the entire screen. Command+Shift+4 – Allows you to take selective screenshots. Command+Shift+4 then hit Spacebar – Takes a screenshot of [...]
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I ran into this enigma a couple of days back. Here’s what happened: I needed to create a clone of a disc to be shared with friends and it had to be compatible with Windows (because it was a Windows-only disc anyway but that’s not the point). I knew for a fact that using Toast [...]
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Most Windows users know about the utility of the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys when dealing with an unresponsive application. A program is said to be unresponsive when it doesn’t respond to any user interaction and neither does it perform its intended actions. There are plenty of jokes surrounding the whole Ctrl + Alt [...]
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Call me old fashioned, call me a caveman but until recently, I haven’t found any solid reason to use Twitter. I even have to go to Wikipedia to find a reason. According to Wikipedia, Twitter is: a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. [...]
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Way back in February, I posted a really cool tip which allowed Mac users to stream their entire iTunes library over the network and even through the Internet onto their iPhones. This involved the use of symbolic links, Terminal, converting videos into h.264 and adding them into iTunes. As cool as the tip was, there [...]
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Spread out over several articles, I’ve mentioned that I’m sort of a multitasker. Not a very good one though, I have to admit. And every Mac user will concur that aside from Spaces, Exposé is one of the most useful tools to help you triumph over the land mine that is multitasking. From Panther to [...]
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On my way to have a more organized life, I’ve tried to utilize iCal to the fullest. I have found the quickest way to add tasks and events to iCal, but have yet to find the quickest way to show them. I figure that instead of opening another app just to show my tasks and [...]
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We’ve all been there. Every computer has this problem. Whether you use a Mac, PC or Linux; your system, at one point in time, will start feeling sluggish and less responsive. For Macs, the ever-popular symptom is the spinning wait cursor, also known as the spinning pinwheel or more ominously, the spinning beach ball of [...]
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I just let myself be lured into buying a Netbook for my daughter. It was a good deal actually and I love the machine. The only problem is that it came with no OS and no optical disc drive (it has two USB ports, though). The only option to get it up and running – [...]
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A few days back I wrote about books that beginners can download and read to teach themselves Linux. Today in the Linux section we have something for the power users. Here are a few tips you should try out if you are an avid Ubuntu Linux user: 1. Get lightning fast and clever at the [...]
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