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MAR
15

With Ruby on Rails you can build powerful and dynamic web sites. Read this article to learn how to develop your application using Xcode 3.0 and the tools that come pre-installed in Leopard.

Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications. Rails is thriving on Mac OS X, and Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Subversion, and other tools that help to streamline the development and deployment of Rails applications. We will use the Organizer feature of XCode 3.0 to demo the step of the development.

This article gives you a full tour of Ruby on Rails 2.0 on Mac OS X Leopard and building a web application using the latest Rails features with Xcode 3.0.

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Filed in Development, Leopard, UNIX and Open Source
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DEC
06

I've written several entries of Terminal commands. I collected all of them inside tags named Terminal; Feel free to look at them. Since I've got brand new Terminal commands inside my collection, I would like to share inside this article.

Desktop : Login Picture

Set Login Picture

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DesktopPicture "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/vortex.png"

I use vortex.png for this sample command lines.

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Filed in UNIX and Open Source
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DEC
02

Web Inspector for Safari

Posted by webmaster digg delicious su


Inspector Ready to Use


defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Lucky for developers, with single line of command as shown above run from Terminal, Web Inspector that can scan through web pages, like Firebug in Firefox, will be ready to use.

Many things you can inspect with this tool, from the most common stylesheets up to the time used by Network to retrieve the data. As you can see on image below.

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NOV
26

Make Screen Saver as Desktop Background


/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

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Filed in Leopard, Tip and Tricks, UNIX and Open Source
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OCT
08

Quit Finder

Posted by webmaster digg delicious su


I really want to quit my Finder, I don't want it to underestimate me because I cannot quit it.

Finder is a bit special, it cannot be quitted, unlike other Mac applications. However, there are many smart people out there who has found out way to easily quit finder.

I don't dislike Finder..
I just want to quit my Finder. By doing so, I save a little of my time when searching through opened Application using my favorite keystrokes . Actually, Finder still can be opened after it's been quitted.

Now, be prepared for our battle against Finder..

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SEP
28

Flip Image in Terminal Way

Posted by webmaster digg delicious su


Terminal can help you perfectly flip your image either you want to flip it horizontally or vertically. Of course, you can flip diagonally also, by flipping horizontally after the image flipped vertically.

What benefit me by doing this..

You can save a lot of time and Mac memory while performing this image manipulation. It's just a line of code so you don't need to spend much time to write the code for flipping image. And you don't need to open image editing Application that, of course, eat up a lot of memory of your Mac, all you need is only Terminal (including your keyboard and a little skill).

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SEP
19

Clearing Thumbdrive Trash

Posted by webmaster digg delicious su


Delete files is the most frequent task all over the world of computer. Whenever the files being deleted, it will be automatically sent to the Trash. I think you all know.

However, what happens if the Trash folder is not visible, i.e. there isn't any Trash folder in your thumbdrive, am I right?

I don't care, it has nothing to do with me

If you're not using thumbdrive, then you're right. However, if you are at this moment using thumbdrive, I recommended using this Terminal language to clear the trashes.

Without doing so, the trashes will accumulate on your thumbdrive and fill up all the free space. I don't expect that to happen and I think you do too.

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