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1. "iTerm Exit Fullscreen"

   ⌘-Enter toggles fullscreen in iTerm.

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2. "Mavericks Disable Mail Sound"

   Since upgrading to Mavericks I get a sound whenever I get mail. I find this very annoying so first port …

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3. "Macbook keyboard light not working"

   Checkout : Apple support.

   Disable 'Adjust keyboard brightness in low light'.
   

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4. "brew update fail"

   Received the following errors when doing brew update on mountain lion:

   error: The following untracked working tree files would be …

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5. "OS X Handbrake install libdvdcss (Decryption)"

   1. Go to the Videolan website and download and run the libdvdcss.pkg.

   2. Switch VLC preference, Advanced, uncheck Dvd-Video use libdvdnav …

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6. "Reverting rtorrent version on Snow Leopard"

   After running a brew upgrade rtorrent was plagued with segmentation faults. Which look something like :

   Caught Segmentation fault, dumping stack …

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7. "OS X Screen Capture"

   To capture the screen on OS X :

   ⇧⌘4 : Selected area to capture.
   ⇧⌘4-space : Capture a window.

   These are defined in …

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8. "OS X Installing R"

   R is a language for statistical computing and graphics. It is the choice of Coursera Statistics One.

   It can be …

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9. "Web Automation with Watir"

   Watir is a web testing framework implemented in ruby, but can be used for testing or automating any web service …

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10. "Mac Mountain Lion Compatibility"

    One of the limitations of mountain lion is that they are only going to support 64 bit Kernel extensions, the …

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11. "Using ~/.ssh/config and no passowrds with Mac OS X"

    Using ssh to securely connect with servers from the terminal is pretty easy. set up a public key and a …

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12. "Mac mini (mid 2010) 8GB memory upgrade"

    Finally got my mac mini to accept the 8GB kit I bought from Crucial for £74 (apple upgrade is £409 …

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13. "My Backup Strategy"

    Considering various raid strategies I decided that Raid 5 would be too limiting and have previously found raid striping systems …

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14. "screen -x not connecting when running as an other user"

    I have been running into issues with screen when switching to another user:

    $ su otheruser
    > password
    $ screen -x
    > Cannot open …

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15. "Fixing Ncursers on OS X 10.6.3+"

    Currently OS X 10.6.3 - 10.6.5 the ncursers library is broken. A hacky fix is to copy …

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16. "Mac OS X libSystem cache out of sync"

    For various reasons Mac OS X (at least 10.6) can get the system cache out of sync with the …

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17. "OS X open finder from command line"

    Just discovered this: from source.

    $ open .
    

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18. "Stop/Start and Restart Samba on OS X"

    To Stop Start and Restart Samba on Mac OS X 10.6:

    sudo /usr/sbin/smbd stop
    sudo /usr/sbin …

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19. "Mac OS X Harddrive Spin Down Time"

    The Preferences menu in OS x give you the option to turn off Hard Disks whenever possible to save power …

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20. "Mac OS X Default Path"

    As this seemed to be a useful post on my old blog I am reposting it. Just in case the …

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21. "Basic grep usage"

    Grep is a unix (and mac os x) command line tool to search files for text.
    1) Search for all …

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22. "Removing Ports OS X"

    I have previously mentioned I installed Homebrew for installing unix packages, I left Ports in place, but removed from my …

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23. "Benchmark your website for load times."

    I have been wondering how to do this for a while and accidentally discovered it while perusing this heroku page …

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24. "Turn a .jar file into a mac .app"

    Following this article lets you turn a executable java .jar into a mac appliction (.app). The Tools are only available …

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25. "Installing git on a clean build of OS X"

    Having a clean build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I thought I would give the Homebrew method of installing …

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26. "Homebrew package management for Mac OS X"

    Homebrew is a new package management system for Mac OS X. A good review/tutorial on EngineYard.

    Update 20-August-2010
    Then …

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27. "gem install memory_usage"

    Just released my first gem 'memory_usage' Version 0.0.1.

    $ gem install memory_usage
    

    Assuming the gems folder has been set-up …

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28. "Save space on your Mac by going Monolingual"

    I have just looked through this list of 10 free mac apps I have used most of them in the …

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