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Work With root Username on OS X Terminal/iTerm2

If you want to use OS X in a kind of Linux or BSD way, there is way to become the root user. This guide is intended for the advanced users who can understand chmod, chgrp, chown - at minimum. Ordinary users need not to become root for fun only. The title of this article reflects what we want to mean - Work With root Username on OS X Terminal/iTerm2. How To Work With root Username on OS … [Read more...]

iBeacon and Nearables : Basics

iBeacon uses smartphone's precise location for navigation within the confined spaces, based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Nearables describes the idea of smart objects. None of these are real examples of Internet of Things (IoT) but these are very basic smart objects. iBeacon and Nearables are two different words with specific meaning, we included together because the first basically falls in the … [Read more...]

Raspberry Pi Virtual Appliance & Emulation on OS X

Without the Hardware, With Homebrew Package Manager Installed, You Can Run Raspberry Pi Emulation on OS X or Can Run Raspberry Pi Virtual Appliance. Clearly - both methods are different. Like, in case of Android, we ran Virtual Appliance of Android on OS X. Virtual Appliance has nothing to do with Homebrew Package Manager. You will need VirtualBox like Software. We have named the guide as … [Read more...]

Nano Text Editor Tips & Tricks

Here Are Some Tips & Tricks for (Mac) OS X and GNU/Linux Nano Text Editor Including Shortcuts, Line Numbers, Going to Line Number etc. Basic Things. vi is definitely a powerful text editor, you can read How to Use vi Text Editor, but basically for the new Linux and OS X user, Nano appears better. It is better to help the user to shift from closed source software like Microsoft Windows in a … [Read more...]

Nano Syntax Highlighting : nanorc

Here is updated list of nanorc with script to compile them to one file for Powerful Nano Syntax Highlighting. Clone the Git repo and get highlighted. Nano is not exactly a powerful text editor, vi is definitely the powerful text editor (we have basic guide on vi), but for the beginners and the purposes where vi may be not required, Nano can do the work nicely. Nano Syntax Highlighting : OS X … [Read more...]

Command Line Music Player with Visualizer

Here is the source code and steps to install a Command Line Music Player with Visualizer to play music from iTerm2 or Terminal or from SSH. Previously, we talked about Herrie - a good, stable CLI Music Player. The players name is Open Cubic Player, it possibly has a GNU GPL License, but the developer is quite restrictive about development, porting etc. - clearly written to inform the Author about … [Read more...]

OS X Nano Syntax Highlighting

Here is How to Update OS X Nano and Enable OS X Nano Syntax Highlighting For Various Languages. Needed dot Files to Match With iTerm2 Has Been Supplied. Apple uses old version of Nano! Yes, it is 2.0 or something like that on OS X Yosemite - the funky OS update from Apple. Yosemite has targeted the mass, who will update Nano? An Operating System's Text Editor does not get updated. We are using the … [Read more...]

OS X GPG Tricks and Tips

Here are some OS X GPG tricks and tips for clearsign, GPG for Mail for Signing Emails, Code Signing and all the stuffs you need for development. Essentially, you are following our typical configuration on OS X (10.10 and higher) for iTerm2, ZSH, Homebrew. This is mandatory part - you must have all the components updated including XQuartz, Xcode Commandline Tools. OS X GPG Tricks and … [Read more...]