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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Full Screen Terminal Keyboard Command on a Mac

Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough. In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal. Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes. Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f. [...]

Install rar and unrar on a Mac OX 10.5+

A great tutorial can be found here.

Perl grabbing output from a shell command

$result = `ls -l $file 2>&1`;

Synergy (running in the background on a Mac 10.5+)

Synergy is an application that allows you to share one keyboard and mouse between several different computers (Windows, Linux, and OS X). Unfortunately, running synergy in the background on a mac doesn’t work so well. Here’s one of the work-arounds I’ve found on the Internet. This involves running the app through launchctl a replacement for [...]