Conjectures about why Apple can’t get its software act together abound. The most common is that the company has become so trapped in its cycle of annual hardware upgrades — a new iPhone had better appear every September, or else — that it’s simply incapable of keeping its software maintained. Programmer Marco Arment, in a widely-read comment last year, speculated that “the rapid decline of Apple’s software is a sign that marketing is too high a priority at Apple today: having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering teams to keep up with while maintaining quality. … They’re doing too much, with unrealistic deadlines.”
Category: Computers
Using 3D Touch on Apple 6s
http://www.macrumors.com/how-to/iphone-6s-3d-touch/
Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus has been selling strongly since its launch last month, thanks in part to a number of new features including 3D Touch. With it, users can access Quick Actions from the home screen and Peek and Pop from within a variety of stock and third-party apps.
- Quick Action
- Peek and Pop
- Turn your Keyboard into a Trackpad
- Activating Live Photos
- Multitasking
- Pressure-sensitive drawing
The CSSHX App for Mac is seriously handy…
…for SSH’ing into multiple machines at once. It opens a new terminal window for each ssh connection host you provide it in a tiled configuration (By default)
http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/macosx/csshX-pod.html
Simply place it in a function in your .bash_profile with the IPs you want to connect to and voila!
For example :
function ssh-hosts() {
~/csshX-master/csshX 10.10.10.1 10.10.10.2 10.10.10.3 10.10.10.4
}
After running “source .bash_profile” for your shell to re-read your .bash_profile, typing “ssh-hosts” will connect to the 4 IPs you provided, open up 4 ssh windows, and a single “master” window for controlling all 4 ssh sessions. Brilliant!
Colorize Logs Being Sent to STDOUT using CCZE
sudo apt-get install ccze -y
tail /var/log/syslog | ccze -A
http://lintut.com/colorize-log-files-on-linux-using-ccze-tool/
Stop your Macbook from sleeping when lid closed (CLI)
The caffeinate command is used to prevent a Mac from going to sleep. The simplest way to use this command is to run the following command in the terminal.
XCode File Comparison Tool (FileMerge.app)
XCode comes with a file comparison tool. It’s pretty basic, but gets the job done. Run the following from a command line to run it :
open /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/FileMerge.app
Importing Your iPhoto Library Into Lightroom
I’ve been using iPhoto almost since its creation, so naturally I’ve got a metric buttload of photos in its library. Now that I’m getting more serious about my photography, iPhoto just isn’t going to cut it anymore, especially since it anti-aliases your photos when displayed on an LCD screen. I’m switching to Lightroom. (For $9.99 a month you can subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud which gives you Photoshop CC and Lightroom. It also includes cloud storage.)
After doing some Googling, I found a couple of ways to import your iPhoto Library into Lightroom, but they all seemed to involve duplicating your “Masters” directory contained within the iPhoto Library package. My laptop’s HD doesn’t have enough room remaining to create a duplicate of all my photos, so I came up with a different solution.
You can’t directly browse inside the iPhoto Library package using Finder, so Lightroom can’t browse there either. You have to create a way for Lightroom to access your photos via the filesystem. In my mind the easiest way was to create a symlink (or “pointer” folder) to the Masters folder in your iPhoto Library.
- Open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
- type “cd Pictures” (minus the quotes)
- type “ln -s iPhoto\ Library/Masters/ Pics” (minus the quotes) This creates a “pointer” folder called “Pics” to your iPhoto Library Master folder
- Now Lightroom will be able to see the photos in iPhoto if you browse to Pictures\Pics
Note : You don’t have to call the symlink “Pics”, obviously. You can call it whatever you want. As a matter a fact, prior to running that “ln” command, make sure the symlink you’re creating doesn’t have the same name as a file or directory that already exists under the Pictures folder in your Home Directory.