Often overlooked, the terminal can be used to accomplish all sorts of fun stuff. Something that you may find handy, is the ability to Tweet using built in Mac OS X command line utilities. Now of course this is not a full featured Twitter client by any means, but if you are looking for potential geek “cred” this is a fun trick to demonstrate.
Copy and paste the entire text in the grey boxes. When you paste it in your Terminal.app, it will show up as one single line.
To display a list of tweets (replace osxdaily with a ...
If you’re looking for a simple stopwatch menubar timer for Mac OS X, look no further than Thyme. No, not the herb, Thyme is a very simple app that sits in your menubar and allows you to quickly start and stop a timer.
Wondering how long it takes you to perform a certain task? No problem, use Thyme and figure it out. You can quickly activate and deactivate Thyme by hitting Control+T, otherwise just access it from the menubar.
Surprisingly useful! If you’re not keen on installing third party apps, you can always create a rudimentary stopwatch from the ...
The developer describes Raskin as a desktop user interface Inspired by Jef Raskin which shows you all the stuff on your computer on one single surface. And – with its intuitive zoom and pan navigation – Raskin lets you view, arrange and open documents with ease. In minutes you’ll discover the simplicity and intelligence of our desktop alternative. Raskin has been optimized to run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Raskin for Mac from Federico Viticci on Vimeo.
The utility takes advantage of pinch-to-zoom functionality to replicate the experience of an iPhone or iPad, but on a the Mac desktop. Users can ...
If you’re one of those Mac users that loves to dig in and play with hidden features and settings, this post is for you.
Below you’ll find 30 tips and tricks to help both seasoned and beginner Mac users to get the most out of their OS X experience. We’ll cover everything from obscure Terminal commands to keyboard shortcuts that every Mac user should know and use. Let’s get started!
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Stacks are quite the handy addition to your Mac’s dock and the good people at Mac OS X Hints figured out a way to make them even more ...
Netatalk is a free and open source implementation of Apple Talk for Unix devices which, basically, lets you use Apple’s standard file sharing between a Mac and an iPhone, in the Finder. And luckily for us, an iPad: Netatalk is compatible with iPhone OS 3.2, so feel free to fire up Cydia and install it. If you still have to jailbreak your iPad and get going with Cydia, you can read our post here. Once you’ve installed Netatalk, the iPad will respring. To get Netatalk to work you’ll have to reboot though, and if you’re using SBSettings (also from Cydia, a ...
Remember all those great video games you had when you were younger? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could download and play those games on your Mac? It turns out you can.
The Emulators
Heated discussions and potential morality issues aside, the fact is that these things are out there and ready for download.
All of the emulators basically do the same thing and don’t really have interfaces beyond that of the games you load into them. Some seem to be more compatible with available ROMs than others so pay attention to the support documents.
Having never used many of these myself, ...
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Admit it! It's a pain for playing Flash video on Mac, sometimes it just crashed when we're viewing some video (especially HD) on Youtube and we need to force quit the browser. Now let us improve the viewing experience with this three little tool on Youtube.
Quietube
If you have to access YouTube via a browser – say you’re marooned on a Windows island for a few hours when someone sends you a link to a great new video – then Quietube immediately makes YouTube more usable. Just go to the site and read the simple instructions there:
Quietube
You simply click-and-drag ...
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Time Machine is one of Apple’s greatest inventions – instead of dreading backups and regretting not having one when your disk fails, you can now just switch to your backup disk and restore it.
But as comfortable as the backing up itself is, it can still be tricky to find the one file you are needing. That’s where Back-In-Time comes in. This handy little tool allows you to dive into your (and not just your own) backups and quickly get what you need.
What You Can Use Back-in-Time For
Most of us will have a partition of an existing hard drive, ...
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