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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