October 26, 2011
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.
July 11, 2011
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.
October 11, 2010
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 [...]
May 8, 2010
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 [...]
December 30, 2009
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 [...]
December 28, 2009
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 [...]
December 14, 2009
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 [...]
December 1, 2009
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. [...]
November 25, 2009
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 [...]
November 23, 2009
![Become A Multitasking Master With These 6 Exposé Tips [Mac]](http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/0212-150x150.jpg?323f2c "Become A Multitasking Master With These 6 Exposé Tips [Mac]")
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 [...]
