Tag Archives: os x

Installing RMagick on Snow Leopard / Leopard

UPDATE: After using this for a little, i’ve discovered that there’s a small problem with the install script, it does not include the ghostscript fonts (for use with ImageMagick) properly. I’ve forked the repository and applied a fix (http://github.com/dazoakley/ImageMagick-sl) - … Continue reading

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Add Git and SVN Branch to Bash Prompt

EDIT: (12-Mar-2010) slight update to the svn prompt code to give a better / more useful output… I’ve seen things like this posted on the net before but never really had a chance to play with the idea. But as … Continue reading

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Trash Stuff From the Command Line

A great little command-line tool for Leopard: osx-trash manipulates the Mac OS X trash from the command line, just like the Finder does. It uses AppleScript via Scripting Bridge on top of to communicate with the Finder. You can move … Continue reading

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Unix Toolbox

Found this via a post on Digg. A very useful read if you want to get some more advanced things done in Unix. This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or … Continue reading

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Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard

First in a series of three articles from Apple on Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard. Definitely worth a bookmark. Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web … Continue reading

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Hiding Keynote Presentations

I don’t give many presentations these days, but this is a great tip: If you give many presentations on the Mac, chances are you’re using Apple’s Keynote presentation software. One cool feature in Keynote is the ability to demo something … Continue reading

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Is the MacBook Air THAT Bad?!?

Finally, a common sense response to all of these MacBook Air bashing articles. I admit - I don’t want one, i’d rather have a ‘regular’ MacBook or a MacBook Pro, but there are people out there that would want something … Continue reading

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NetNewsWire’s Now Freeware

This is great news - NetNewsWire, the best news reader on the Mac is now completely free! Not just the ‘Lite’ version anymore, but the full product! This is my default (and only) news reader on the Mac. There’s a … Continue reading

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SSH Shared-Key Setup - SSH Logins Without Passwords

SSH is a great tool for remotely accessing another machine, but entering your password every time you log into a remote box can be a pain if you would like to set-up some background scripts to connect to a server … Continue reading

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A Better Ls for Mac OS X

I’m a bit of a command-line freak and like to spend a fair amount of time with the terminal open… As such I like to spend a small amount of time getting the terminal set-up nicely. Other than changing the … Continue reading

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