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Remove filterI have recently switched to Thunderbird from Gyazmail, the obscure mail program I have been using for years. Here are some setup tips that worked for me
One can easily make OS X read out text from the CLI with the say command. But what to do when it gets stuck and stops working?
I got myself one of these ergonomic mice, connected it to my Mac and configured the extra buttons. I like it
All the OS X apps I use - for when I need to reinstall a new machine.
Time Machine does its own backup magic, but sometimes you just simply want two identical copies of the same hard disk. For that rsync is the way to go
Software updates can be quite tedious - you have to click a lot of buttons, then get into the Apple Store etc. But you can avoid all that by running it from the command line.
OS can sometimes take forever to resolve hosts setup on my local machine. Here is how I solved it.
Yosemite updates Apache to 2.4. A couple of things stopped working from my previous installation, including autogenerated directory listings. Here’s how I got them back.
To make a quick voice recording with OS X: open Quick Time Player, under the File menu there is a “New. Audio Recording” entry. It automatically saves .mov files in your Movies folder, which you can then open in Audacity or the editor of your choice.
Where to put unix based scripts on a Mac without them getting in the way? Simple: create a bin folder in your home directory, and add it to the path:
export PATH=~/bin:$PATHIn OS X, PDF files can be concatenated manually using Preview. But if you are happy using Terminal there’s an easier way, thanks to a Python script installed by default in /System/Library/Automator