How to open a url from mac osx terminal
If you find yourself needing to click a link from terminal in osx, then there is a way to open it without having to copy / paste it to your…
How to get classic scrollbars back in ubuntu
Since ubuntu 11.04 the scrollbars have been funny. they are inspired by the osx lion scrollbars and only show when you hover over where they should be. fortunately you can…
How to change the default save location from icloud to my mac
How to change the default save location from icloud in osx mountain lion and newer. The default save location for icloud enabled apps is no longer on your own hard-drive.…
Customise osx bash prompt
customise osx bash prompt: I was reading over an old lifehacker post (I was looking for the bash profiles site, and found this too), its a pretty good way to…
Scroll through sent message history in imessages on osx
If you use the terminal app a lot, you will know that you can press the up arrow to get to the last command you typed to save you typing…
Show home library folder by default
In osx lion and mountain lion the ~/Library folder is hidden. this terminal command will un-hide it for you. open terminal type chflags nohidden ~/Library you will now be able…
How to disable osx mountain lion smooth scrolling
This post will show you how to disable smooth scrolling in osx mountain lion. open terminal type defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO smooth crolling will now be disabled!
How I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a macbook air 2012
I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as…
How to mount a macox dmg image file in linux
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be…