Your hard disk is filled with video, music, podcasts, games, applications and documents. Well, following these ten tips might give you the chance to rescue the valued space Download AppZapper, go through your Application folder, drag and drop any unused applications to the AppZapper windows to regain the space. Download Monolingual, these help you to […]
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macosx-nosleep-extension consists of kext and userspace tools that help to manage your Mac sleep behavior. NoSleep makes closing of your MacBook lid possible without going to a sleep mode. Now you shouldn’t have to plug your mouse and monitor to stay computer awake – just activate it by clicking a menu bar icon or check
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Terminal is not boring, in this post I will show you how to play an easy game pingpong with Terminal only Open up Terminal (from Launchpad -> Utilities -> Terminal or from Spotlight Type emacs, press Enter, and press Enter again, continue to press ESC and press X. Now type in pong and press Enter.
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Lion Designer is the right tool for you to quickly customize your Dashboard, Mission Control, LaunchPad and Login in Mac Lion with simple poin & click. This little free tool allows you to change the background of Dashboard, Mission Control, LaunchPad, Login screen, Apple icon when logging in, size of icon in LaunchPad or make
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I’m using Macbook Pro 17″ and the text in Safari looks so small. You can zoom using (Command and +/-) or two fingers on the trackpad. But the problem is that you have to do that each time you open a new page or navigate away from the current page. So, there’s a trick that
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Want to resize your images without any extra software installed on your Mac? Then this post is for you, we are using existing application named Automator to do the work for us. WHAT IS AUTOMATOR Automator is an application developed by Apple for Mac OS X that implements point-and-click (or drag-and-drop) creation of workflows for
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Just a quick note to solve my problem with SSH, I can connect to my remote server OK with Putty or Bitvise SSH but not with Cywin or Babun SSH command line. The error was “Connection reset by peer” After more than 2 hours digging on the Internet to solve the problem, I got this
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Today I need to upgrade my Ubuntu box from kernel 2.6 to 3.13, here are my few notes: 1. Check the current kernel root@xxx:~# uname -r 2.6.32-042stab108.5 2. Update your box root@xxx:~# apt-get update 3. Search for the kernel image Shell root@xxx:~# apt-cache search linux-image alsa-base – ALSA driver configuration files linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic – Linux kernel
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Some of you might encounter the following error when $apt-get update your Ubuntu system, like mine: Fetched 24.0 MB in 9s (2542 kB/s) Reading package lists… Done W: GPG error: <a href=”http://archive.canonical.com/” target=”_blank”>http://archive.canonical.com</a> trusty Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 W: GPG error:
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1. DOWNLOAD wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/Python-2.7.2.tgz tar zxvf Python-2.7.2.tgz 2. INSTALL cd Python-2.7.2 ./configure –prefix=/home/<your account>/opt/python272 –enable-unicode=ucs4 make make install 3. TEST Now try to run: /home/<your account>/opt/python272/bin/python 4. MAKE IT YOUR DEFAULT PYTHON $vim ~/.bashrc add the following line export PATH=/home/<your account>/opt/python272/bin:$PATH reload the session $source ~/.bashrc
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