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Archive for the ‘OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion’ Category

Make terminal window open with fixed size and position – Mac-Forums Discussions for Apple Products & Services

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/17

On the Mac terminal window:

Size yes, position no.

Size can be set in Preferences>Settings>ThemeYouUse>Window>Window Size

Take a look at this for the fold/unfold,

TotalTerminal is a system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key

–jeroen

via: Make terminal window open with fixed size and position – Mac-Forums Discussions for Apple Products & Services.

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Interesting: HotspotShield (VPN for iPhone/Mac/Windows to Access Blocked Sites; Surf Anonymously)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/14

Interesting: HotspotShield VPN to surf from a USA IP address.

There is a free version with ads, and a payed version without ads.

Probably more services like this exist, but this has been working for me.

Yup there are:

–jeroen

via: Download Free VPN for iPhone, Mac and Windows to Access Blocked Sites & Surf Anonymously.

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NTFS Driver for Mac OS | Seagate

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/06

Consolidation of HDD manufacturers (image from WikiMedia)

Consolidation of HDD manufacturers (image from WikiMedia)

Earlier this year I wrote about Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033 and mentioned that there are also a few solutions for writing NTFS volumes from Mac OS X.

Thanks to dhardy03, I learned that Seagate now provides NTFS drivers for Mac OS X for Free. The installer name indicates it is an OEM version of the Paragon NTFS drivers for Mac OS X.

I’m not sure yet if it works only on Seagate drives, but since the only other HDD manufacturers left are Toshiba and Western Digital (Toshiba is a much smaller HDD manufacturer than WD and SD), it is a substantial part of the market.

I might try NTFS-3G as well, but that hasn’t been updated for a while and has been replaced by the commercial Tuxera product.

–jeroen

via:

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Quick Tip: Automating your Mac’s wifi power (on off through script) via: BrettTerpstra.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/04

Interesting commands around networksetup -setairportpower en0 : power off and on your WiFi.

–jeroen

via: [Wayback/Archive] Quick Tip: Automating your Mac’s wifi power – BrettTerpstra.com.

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osx – How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? (via: Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/03

I’m a command-line addict, so this was a great SuperUser question by Željko Filipin:

I know how to find Mac OS X version from GUI: Apple Menu (top left) > About This Mac

Is there a Terminal command that will tell me Mac OS X version?

It was answered by User delfuego:

You have a few options:

sw_vers -productVersion
system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType

These commands led me to this post: Finding OS X Version and Build Information From the Command Line | The Nubby Admin that also showed these commands:

uname -a
osascript -e 'system info'

Where uname shows only the kernal version, oascript gives a ton of information. Read the rest of this entry »

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osx – OS X Terminal “must have” utilities – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/28

Make sure you read osx – OS X Terminal “must have” utilities – Ask Different after reading:

–jeroen

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Mac@30 follow-up on Happy 30th birthday Mac! Videos, fonts, links, etc (via: The Wiert Corner)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/16

Now that I’m back home, a small follow-up on the post Happy 30th birthday Mac! « The Wiert Corner with some interesting links.

I know most Mac users now run Mac OS X, but back then it was called a Macintosh, had System as  OS, but you had the Finder and the Apple logo still  had colours (:

So here are the links:

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Mac OS X: organizing your “Spaces”

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/15

A few links to useful posts about Mac OS X Spaces that help you organize your desktop(s):

–jeroen

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If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

This reminds me about mapping the CapsLock to Windows-key on old Lenovo keyboard (you can do that [Wayback/Archive] with ReMapKey from Microsoft, the [Wayback/Archive] slightly more convoluted open source SharpKeys, or a AutoHotKey script), and a [Wayback] Mac equivalent:

MacOS:

I like to have a second Control key instead of Caps Lock.

In OS X, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys… and change or turn off Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command.

For more radical key remapping in OS X, use KeyRemap4MacBook. Despite the name, it works on non-Macbook machines, too.

ChromeBook:

If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook, you can turn the Search button into a Caps Lock button in a couple steps: find “Keyboard Settings” under the “Settings” menu, and select “Caps Lock” under the “Search” drop-down menu.

Or you can use this quick link on your Chromebook: chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay

Chromebook has [Wayback/Archive] quite some different keys than a Windows keyboard.

Ben Ostrowsky has a nice post with an SVG drawing of the [Wayback/Archive] Chromebook keyboard layout.

Read the rest of this entry »

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nmap finger printing: Usage and Examples

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Just append -O and -v to a command-line:

nmap -O -v ip-address

Note you need administrative privileges for this on Mac OS X, so there you run it like this:

sudo nmap -O -v ip-address

If you want to scan more than the default 1000 TCP ports, then use the -p- switch:

sudo nmap -O -v -p- ip-address

For more info about the finger printing algorithms used by nmap:

–jeroen

via: Usage and Examples.

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