Filed under: UNIX / BSD
Update: After this article was written I learned of mstmp which I highly recommend instead of mailsend.
There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron...
Use mailsend to send email from the Terminal
Top Terminal easter eggs
Filed under: UNIX / BSD
Yeah, the headline makes it sound like the eggs are on their deathbed. But no, easter eggs (in software jargon) are little presents or surprises that developers have slipped into an application or operating system. One excellent place to find easter...Terminal Tips: Generate random filenames for digital photo frame images
Filed under: Tips and tricks, UNIX / BSD, Terminal Tips
It's not at all unlikely that you or a relative have received a digital photo frame as some sort of gift. The concept is great, one frame on your mantle, many pictures on display....Fix iPhone EXIF rotation from the command line
Filed under: UNIX / BSD, iPhone
My iPhone is the camera that i use more than any other, but there's one thing that has consistently annoyed me about it. Apple uses an EXIF tag to rotate images. This can be a problem when you share...
Manually schedule Software Update ‘the OS X way’ with launchd
Filed under: Software Update, Terminal Tips
In response to a Macworld article, TidBits' Chris Pepper elaborated on ways to run Software Update, Apple's means of delivering updates and patches, on your own schedule. Beginning with the fact that Software Update schedules...
Homebrew, the perfect gift for command line lovers
Filed under: Cool tools, Odds and ends, Freeware, Terminal Tips
If you're an OS X user who spends as much time on the command line as you do in the GUI, you're probably familiar with the MacPorts and...
Snow Leopard Fixes: Terminal shell workaround
Filed under: Odds and ends, Terminal Tips, Snow Leopard
Ever since I installed Snow Leopard, I've been dealing with a particularly annoying bug. Terminal keeps forgetting my shell preferences.
I generally prefer to use tcsh rather than bash. This is mostly because I'm...
Snow Leopard Fixes: the angle-bracket “copy email” behavior
Filed under: OS, How-tos, Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard introduced many welcome changes to Leopard and one huge annoyance. When copying an email address from Mail, Snow Leopard wraps the address in "< >" brackets, for example, "<annoying@email.com>". When pasting, you've got to go...Force Snow Leopard’s Dictionary.app to reuse definition window
Filed under: Tips and tricks
The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to Dictionary.app), it opens a new window. And then another. And then another. This...
Credit card terminals for iPhone
Filed under: Retail, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Review
It's no secret that the iPhone is much more than just a smartphone. Apple has even started giving iPhones to Apple Store Concierge employees to schedule appointments and manage the...Dig Into Unix: Sed and Awk
Time again to pop a shell and dig into the deep, geeky Unix internals of OS X with Dig Into Unix. Today we are going to look at two top-shelf power tools for text editing: sed and awk.
Sed is a Stream EDitor, and if you recall our previous Dig Into Unix installment concerning standard streams,...
