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nevver: The future isn’t what it used to be View high resolution

nevver:

The future isn’t what it used to be

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onethingwell: Another way to SSH into another Mac using iCloud’s IPv6 network: in Terminal, choose ‘New Remote Connection’ from the Shell menu, or whack⇧+⌘+K. Thanks, @ctaloi! View high resolution

onethingwell:

Another way to SSH into another Mac using iCloud’s IPv6 network: in Terminal, choose ‘New Remote Connection’ from the Shell menu, or whack⇧+⌘+K.

Thanks, @ctaloi!

(Reblogged from onethingwell)

Remote SSH using Back To My Mac

onethingwell:

If you have more than one Mac running OS X Lion and you’re signed in to the same iCloud account on all of them, you can SSH between them via iCloud’s IPv6 network.

First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running

dns-sd -E

Then SSH to another machine like so

ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com

That’s hard to remember and a hassle to type, so might want to add something like the following to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host mac-remote User username HostName computername.123456789.members.btmm.icloud.com AddressFamily inet6 Protocol 2

Which means you can just type

ssh mac-remote

to log in to your other Mac when you’re out and about.

Very handy.

Update 24/07/2012

Reader TJ wrote in to say:

If you don’t want to hard code your Back To My Mac address into your .ssh/config you can get it dynamically using this line:

echo show Setup:/Network/BackToMyMac | scutil | sed -n 's/.* : *\(.*\).$/\1/p'
(Reblogged from onethingwell)

How to get easier access to Umlauts on English keyboards in Mac OSX

My writing is mainly done in English - both programming and communication. Hence I use a keyboard with an international English layout. Occasionally though I need to write something in German. Whenever I need to type an Umlaut like ä I need three keystrokes to get there: ALT+u then a. For quite a while I thought that it would be handy to map the combinations ALT+u, ALT+o and ALT+a to directly yield ü, ö and ä respectively. Only now I took the time to investigate how to achieve this and thanks to this StackOverflow article I was pointed to a tool called KeyRemap4MacBook which helped me to finally get there. Here’s how.

Download and install KeyRemap4MacBook. After restarting the Mac, there is a new KeyRemap4MacBook panel in the system preferences. In its ‘Misc & Uninstall’ tab one gets access to the custom settings to be defined in a file called ‘private.xml’. Press the button labelled ‘Open private.xml’.

This will open the Finder showing the folder containing the actual file ‘private.xml’. The contents of this file need to be replaced with these lines:

Code

Now, these changes need to be loaded into the KeyRemap tool. So, in the ‘Change Key’ tab, press ‘Reload XML’.

Finally, the new setting ‘Easy access for Umlauts’ appears on the top of the list and it needs to be enabled.

Umlauts can now be typed with the left ALT key (like ALT+SHIFT+O for Ö) while the right ALT key retains its original mapping (to be able to type letters like å or ø).

Addendum: as a VIM (or rather Sublime Text + Vintage mode) user, I mapped the CapsLock key to the ESC key using PCKeyboardHack.

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

You never stop learning how to save a few clicks.

Open source Ruby on Rails apps

Some non-trivial, popular, actively developed, open source Rails 3 app hosted on github:

May these help to learn rails or to inspire to learn some new tricks.

A monthly digest of the best questions on StackOverflow

Every month, the best 20 questions found in the wealth of information that is known as stackoverflow are nicely grouped and tagged on StackMonthly. Or, as the site puts it:

SELECT TOP 20 Questions FROM StackOverflow GROUP BY Month, Tag ORDER BY Votes DESC

Chrome allows quick access to the search function of websites. For example, if you type cnn in Chrome’s Omnibox (the combined location and search field), a hint appears right-aligned: “Press TAB to search CNN.com”. Hit TAB, enter some words to search for on cnn.com, press enter and the search function of CNN’s site will display the results. There are two preconditions to get this working. First, you must have used the desired site’s search function before (navigate to the site and search for something using its own search box). And the site’s search must result in a URL where the words used in the search must appear in a parameter called ‘search’ or ‘query’ (like http://…cnn.com?query=football when searching for football on cnn).  Many sites build search URLs like CNN in the example above, so Chrome will automatically “learn” more search completions over time. Unfortunately, Twitter’s search URL doesn’t conform to this. View high resolution

Chrome allows quick access to the search function of websites. For example, if you type cnn in Chrome’s Omnibox (the combined location and search field), a hint appears right-aligned: “Press TAB to search CNN.com”. Hit TAB, enter some words to search for on cnn.com, press enter and the search function of CNN’s site will display the results.

There are two preconditions to get this working. First, you must have used the desired site’s search function before (navigate to the site and search for something using its own search box). And the site’s search must result in a URL where the words used in the search must appear in a parameter called ‘search’ or ‘query’ (like http://…cnn.com?query=football when searching for football on cnn). 

Many sites build search URLs like CNN in the example above, so Chrome will automatically “learn” more search completions over time. Unfortunately, Twitter’s search URL doesn’t conform to this.

Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It’s time for it to die. - Slate Magazine

minimalmac:

A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It’s time to give up on Word.

(via my new Ace Boo from NOLA, Derek)

And Excel for that matter.

(Reblogged from minimalmac)