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Emacs. Bizarre Findings

Contribution of Josh Sand

I have been digging around in /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/ recently, and I have found it is chock full of goodies, and possibly worth of an article on UsingMac.

Files I have found (put line in Terminal):

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Network Utility for Mac

Contribution of Dane Baker

There is a high probability for Mac power users to execute Terminal commands in order to check for network status of particular domain, such as ping, traceroute, whois, etc.

However, if we are new to Terminal commands, it is not necessary to use any web based service for this particular purpose; we can always use Network Utility pre-installed to our Mac.

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Telnet's ASCII Animation: Star Wars

Contribution of Erik Thorne

For all fans of star wars, by connecting to telnet via Mac OS X Terminal an ASCII animation of Star Wars can be watched. It’s suspected that someone out there is extremely bored with his job or has too much spare time to spend on creating this ASCII animation (also named as 20th century text).

“This is the coolest thing ever”, claimed Erik Thorne himself.

Let’s try out this and see whether Erik is correct.

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Preview Multiple Items in Quick Look

Contribution of Chin Wei Lien

Having Quick Look shipped together with our Mac is such a fortune, not only it helps us quickly preview our files but also it illuminates our day with its great interface.

A little finding here is that if we select multiple pictures at one time in Finder and press space bar, a Quick Look window will pop up in an instant1.

Take notice of the option to view pictures in different format just next to scrolling arrows (after separator). Pressing on that turns Quick Look window into Index Sheet2. And in order to go back to normal view, escape key can be used.

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