Nerdy tips in byte-sized chunks
Have you ever had one of your websites become inaccessible on only one of your computers? The site loads up fine on every other machine you try it on but on this one machine, nada. If you try to ping the domain you’ll likely be presented with an ‘unknown host’ error. If your computer is a Mac you will likely… Continue reading "Fix ‘Unkown host’ Error on Mac"
When entering long commands in the terminal, making changes or fixing mistakes in the middle of the command can slow you down. Moving your cursor over one character at a time to get the to point where the change is needed takes too much time! Fortunately on a Mac you can actually use your mouse to position the cursor wherever… Continue reading "Command Line Tip: Position Cursor with the Mouse"
If you like to work from the command line there are many keyboard shortcuts that can make your life easier. Two of my favourites are control+a and control+e. When you are have some text entered and you want to quickly get to the start or end of the entered text these little shortcuts will save you some key-presses. ctrl +… Continue reading "Command Line Tip: Start of Line – End of Line"
Two tools that I love enormously are Google Calendar and my iPhone. Google Calendar is incredibly powerful. It allows you to have multiple calendars with any mix of private and public/shared calendars you like. It has a powerful quick ad option for adding events with plain English, amazingly configurable repeating events and reminders, and the feature list goes on and… Continue reading "iPhone + Google Calendar + Google Sync = Awesomeness"
