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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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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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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New theme release by Gmail team

Link : http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/five-new-themes.html

Yeah! 5 new themes. You can refer to the link.

The coolest ever theme, Android.

Looks clean, good color combination and Android icon all over. Well designed.

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Fedora 13 | Change cursor

Just update to Fedora 13, Goddard.

Although I manage to install cursor, it seems gnome did not update the default cursor. Therefore, we need to change the config.

cd /usr/share/icons

You can see several icon there. A new cursor folder should be there. If none, do copy the cursor folder to /usr/share/icons

cd default

in this directory, you will see index.theme. Default is dmz-aa. Change to cursor folder name you want to. In my case, Comix.

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=ComixCursors-Black-Regular

Restart X. (logout and login)

Done.

For Comix cursor, you can get it here.

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Gmusicbroswser : Best mp3 player

Yes. I mean it. I have tried numerous of media player such as amarok, banshee, xmms etc. However, once I tried gmusicbrowser 2 years ago, I stick with it.

Gmusicbrowser : An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape files, written in perl.

Please refer to the main website for features. However, there are some features I would like to highlight.

• Auto fetch lyric


• Layout options


• Plugins!


• Proxy features

Here are the screenshots.






If you want to output the song title and artist to the pidgin as your status, tick Now Playing plugin, and insert "purple-remote setstatus?status=available&message=♫%a-%t♫" without quote.

For fedora, yum install gmusicbrowser.

:)

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Insert picture in Gmail content

1. Log in in your gmail account.
2. Click Gmail lab (top right with green bootle)
3. Enable image attachment.



4. Done.

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