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Opera Mini for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad

mrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:45:52 +0000

A must-have app for all Apple mobile products. Browsing on this little app is helluva lot faster than using Mobile Safari since it uses socket connections to to Opera’s server which is acting as a super-proxy (local pun). Super proxy because it does most of the rendering and code processing on the Opera server which saves up a lot of time and bandwidth. Its a lot safer too (I think) since it doesn’t go through the usual HTTP port. (Hmmm.. will have to verify with a packet sniffer.)

Some pages, however, get rendered in its “mobile version” (even this wordpress blog) which is kind of annoying. Still, Opera Mini is awesome enough to be my default browser for Apple mobile devices.

You can get it here : App Store Link

Colors in Terminal.app

mrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:58:21 +0000

If you’ve used Terminal.app, you’d notice that it’s a bit boring that their linux counterparts due to the lack of file and directory colors. Adding 2 lines in your ~/.bash_profile file will add a little color to your boring Terminal.

Open ~/.bash_profile, using vi or vim or whatever, and add these two lines:

export CLICOLOR=1

export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

Save the file, quit Terminal, open it again, then do an “ls”. You now have file and directory colors/highlights enabled!

If you want to change to a different color, note the 2nd line you added. Each pair of characters denotes the foreground color and background color for a specific type of file or directory. For example, the first pair, “Ex” means that the foreground color is “E” (which is Bold Blue) and the background is “x” (which is the default background set by Terminal preferences).

Here are the order of pairs in the LSCOLORS parameter:

Directory
Symbolic link
Socket
Pipe
Executable
Block special
Character special
Executable with setuid bit set
Executable with setgid bit set
Directory writable to others, with sticky bit
Directory writable to others, without sticky bit

And here’s the list of available colors:

a black
b red
c green
d brown
e blue
f magenta
c cyan
h light grey
A block black, usually shows up as dark grey
B bold red
C bold green
D bold brown, usually shows up as yellow
E bold blue
F bold magenta
G bold cyan
H bold light grey; looks like bright white
x default foreground or background

Source

Secrets

mrt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:44:45 +0000

First tip I’d like to share is Secrets. Secrets is a website which contains a whole collection of hidden settings and options for Mac OS X. Usually, you’d need to fire up Terminal and type something cryptic to enable the “secret”, but you can just download and install the PrefPane and enable the hidden preference using a friendlier GUI.

Top 'Secrets' shown here