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Brush Up on Your Mac Terminal Kung-Fu [Terminal]

Monday, July 26th, 2010
The Super User forums has a collection of tips and paste-able commands for Mac OS X's Terminal that are, by turns, brilliant, funny, and obscure but great. Suggestions include quickly checking what apps are eating your memory (top -o vsize), run a Spotlight-style search from the command line (mdfind), and a clever little script that one user put together to trick his wife into thinking a MacBook has overheated and needs to be shut down—so he can grab it back. [Super User via Daring Fireball] More »


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AppleJack Troubleshoots Your Mac from the Command Line [Downloads]

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Mac only: There are a lot of ways to troubleshoot your Mac, but if your problem is so serious that you can't load the GUI (or if you don't have your installation disc), AppleJack can troubleshoot it right from the command line. More »


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Autojump Is a Faster Way to Browse Your Filesystem [Downloads]

Friday, July 9th, 2010
Linux/Mac OS X: Command-line utility Autojump learns your most commonly used folders, and makes switching between them an easy task, requiring you to enter only part of the directory path to switch between them. More »



Operating system - Mac OS - Mac OS X - Open source - filesystem

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Enable the Ultra-Compact Menu in Google Chrome [Chrome]

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Chrome: Chrome's interface is already minimalist and compact but if you want to shrink it even further you can collapse the page menu into the wrench menu with a simple command-line flag. More »



Google - Google Chrome - Clients - WWW - Browsers

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Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks [Command Line]

Monday, June 21st, 2010
With the right commands, you can turn your favorite command-line text editor into a distraction-free Google Docs app, add new events to Google Calendar, upload images to Picasa or video to YouTube, backup your Google data, and more. Here's how it works. More »



Google - GoogleCL - Picasa - Command-line interface - Google Docs

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