Mac OS X | iTerm2 : Alternative to default Terminal

For me, terminal come pretty handy when I want to move several files or delete files by wildcard. However, sometimes you need to open several terminal in 1 profile. By default, if you want to open several terminal, you need to open another profile (create another tab).



In Linux, we do have a software called Terminator. In my Fedora's days, Terminal is my immediate replacement for Fedora default terminal. In Mac, we do have a software which behave like Terminator which is iTerm2.



Some of the iTerm2 features are:

• Split Panes
• Hotkey Window
• Search
• Autocomplete
• Mouseless Copy
• Paste History
• Instant Replay
• Configurability
• Full Screen

The best part of iTerm2 is you can configure your own shortcuts such as keyboard shortcut for split tab vertically, horizontally etc.

I personally think that for heavy terminal user should use iTerm2 as a direct replacement for default terminal :)

You can download it here http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/downloads/list

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Mac OS X | Handle multiple .zip or . rar files with CLI

For now, after 2 days of Mac OS X, I still not found my way through handling extracting multiple .zip or .rar files. However, with Fedora, we have "unrar" and "zip" to handle those files. Sweet reminiscence lead me to setup "unrar" on this new toy.

Steps for rar files:
1. Download RAR 4.01 for Mac OS X

2. Extract the above file to preferred directory. Refer below pic.

3. To install "rar" and "unrar", do the following

sudo install -c -o $USER unrar /bin

sudo install -c -o $USER rar /bin

4. To extract (without quote - refer man or help):

unrar e "files"

5.Done

Steps for zip files:
Assume you have lot of files to be extracted like the picture below, it would be time consuming to "click click click" or wtv to extract those files.



1. Extract all those files to "extract" (can be anything though) by :

unzip -jo cr-1od0\*.zip -d extract/

2. Refer help for "-jo" and the rest of modifier.
3.Done?



*please ignore the name of the files above :P

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HTC IS Radio 20.2803.30.085au_3805.04.03.12_m

For those who having problem with drop call or delay sms after updating to Gb, you might want to flash your ROM using this radio.

Step:

1. Put P32IMG.zip on the root of your SD Card and boot into fastboot ( Vol Up + Power )

2. Update

Done!

Download : http://www.multiupload.com/JG3D1BODV7

Source : http://bbs.goapk.com/thread-1647299-1-1.html

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Gnome 3 || Remap Move to trash / 'Delete' button

In Gnome 3, Delete or Move to trash shortcut key have been reassigned to 'Ctrl + Del'. However, you can change the key according to your preference.You need "gconf-editor"

yum install gconf-editor

1. From gconf-editor, head to desktop > gnome > interface
2. Tick "can_change_accels"

3. Click any file at any folder, go to Edit > Move to trash then press "Delete" button. Voila!



Done remapping!

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Facebook : Remove Question from News Feed

Yes. You can! :P

You need to install F.B. Purity to clean your news feed from noise.

Def of noise

In signal processing or computing it can be considered unwanted data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise

F.B. Purity

F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity is an anti spam, facebook tool, in the form of a browser addon that alters your facebook homepage to show only the most relevant information to you, by filtering out the annoying and irrelevant messages in your news feed / stream, such as application spam etc, and also giving you the option to hide the boxes you dont want to see on the right hand side of the homepage. FBP is available as a browser extension and it is also available as a Greasemonkey script.

Before F.B. Purity

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Idea #1 : Intro - Cloud Clinics

I think everyone aware about cloud computing. For those who don't, refer to the picture below.

As you can see, every pieces of device have two-way connection with the Internet. Furthermore, we have database, remote server and clients accessing the same thing. Anything on the Internet, we as a client, can access, amend and use it. In our bleeding edge world, anything must be cloud in order to reduce the dependencies on own self resource and increase reliability of the system. Information sharing is the best when we come into cloud computing.

First of all, let me give you 1 case to ponder upon.

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On the verge to HTC from iPhone | Part 1

Sounds like mobile migration from iPhone to HTC or iOS to Android right?. I'm an avid Apple gadgets for over the past 3 years. I bought my 8Gb iPod while I'm in the Uni. The reason being are, I need a MP3 player with WiFi capabilities, store movies/video clips and touch screen. Therefore, at that time, the only thing in mind is Apple iPod. Because Wifi is my top priority.

Early in 2009, I sold my iPod to LYN forumer for RM650 and from the funding, I further save more money for iPhone 3G. After several weeks doing my observation and study on iPhone 3G, I decided to buy it. And yerp, I bought it from unknown seller. We COD (Cash on Delivery) somewhere. I couldn't remember though.

Since day 1, I'm in love my iPhone. Responsiveness, accurate touch screen, Wifi, Mp3 and jailbreak? Yerp. Jailbreak is the most important feature that I looking forward in Apple product. Oh ya, back in 2009, if I'm not mistaken, it still on 2.2.1 firmware. I like to custom my themes, tones and what ever stuff that can be custom. Shuffling ringtone, virtual memory and terminals. I would say, I maximize my iPhone capabilities about 80% of what iPhone can do. Don't ask me where is 20% because I don't know. :P

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Kelana Jaya and Ampang LRT Extension

As far as we know, the RM7 billion LRT is expected to start by the end of this month. The paper works and all the documentation were prepared back in 2009-2010. However, as far as I know , the timeline for the completion is 2014.

The estimated total distance for the extension is 17km with 13 stations from Kelana Jaya until Putra Height.

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Linux : Fedora Conky-color

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

However, conky-color is the easier and faster way to customize conky compare to customizing conky configuration (conkyrc)

For Fedora users, in terminal,

yum install -y conky lm-sensors hddtemp

hddtemp : Hard disk temperature tool
lm-sensors : Hardware monitoring tools

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