GitHub is where people build software, and here listed some amazing unicorn projects...

OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the structure of the system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure...

For those of you familiar with the Repair Disk Permissions option that used to be located under Utilities > Disk Utility > First Aid in older versions of MacOS...

Curl command is used to transfer files to and from a server, it supports a number of protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, DICT, FILE, GOPHER...

Tcpdump command is a network packet analysing tool that is used to display TCP\IP and other network packets being transmitted over a network...

Are you satisfied with default filters youtube provides for your searches? Did you recently searched for...

If you use Google Chrome you can prevent videos from auto-playing, and you should as these auto-plays are annoying as flies...

Here Are Some Of The Most Powerful And Versatile Systems Ever Created...

Recently I had to sort more than 100 thousand hosts alphabetically. The tricky part was that these were domains, and I wanted to sort them by top level domain...

On a Mac most Adobe CC apps splash screens can be changed by editing the proper .jpg that resides inside the Resources folder of the app. For instance to edit...

It is not always we need or want the Bootcamp windoze partition mounted. Most hardly access it... ever from the Mac. So why keep the partition mounted all the time...

If you’ve used Chrome you might not be aware that it comes with a software that secretly “calls home” on a regular basis and downloads updates to your Google software...

Chrome OS is an operating system designed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface...

A simple Mac Plus emulator written in javascript called PCE...

The data URI scheme is a uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme that provides a way to include data in-line in web pages as if they were external resources...

DBXCLI is a command line client for Dropbox built using the Go SDK. With it you can upload files, download files, automate Dropbox backups, and much more...

There are hundreds of very nice and useful OS X system settings that cannot be accessed using the UI. To change these settings you'll need to use the Terminal.app command...

To modify a DMG first mount the image in "read/write" mode (with shadow option), then when finished editing the DMG convert/copy the changes made inside the shadow...

Time Machine backups are great, but very slow when a large amount of data/files needs to be transferred (such as the initial back-up). As designed by Apple the Time...

A basic bashrc shell script to get you started...

Accessing the Android's shell for the first time can be disappointing. One is expecting a fully featured shell or at least something, a history functionality at the very...

You can easily manage CPU usage, and control those apps that tend to slow down the computer because they use way too much of the CPU's processing power...

There are certain permissions that applications cannot be granted even if they request it in the Manifest, such as WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS. This is because granting...

You can login into a ssh session without having to type a password by using RSA Key authentication...

In his latest book "Modern Photoshop Color Workflow" Dan summarizes his experience presenting the "Picture Postcard Workflow", aka PPW: a disciplined, speedy...

This is a little script I've wrote to help someone split PDF files into individual PDF's or images...

Mounty is a tiny tool that re-mounts write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode. No additional drivers are installed, the app makes use...

A number of scenarios can cause the Mac to "lose" it's recovery partition. However, the recovery partition (Recovery HD) is required for a number of tasks. For instance...

Like a lot of systems folks I use sed, a lot. It is probably an unhealthy amount of sed use but so be it. I operate on a lot of Linux servers but my desktop environment...

Gatekeeper is the feature at work when OS X tells you that a particular application can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer...

I want my wallpapers to change each X minutes automagically. You are probably thinking: but there is an option in the System preferences to do...

Duti developed by Andrew Mortensen is a very handy and easy to use tool. Its very useful to setup newly formatted systems. It sets the default Apps

Apple has introduced a new security feature in Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) called System Integrity Protection (sometimes referred to as rootless or SIP)...

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization...

This script works with and around the cd command to provide extended functionality. It was written by Alvin Alexander and it is...

Lets create an Automator app that will skip the Trash and delete files immediately, from the GUI...

The customer's machine was infected by some handsome-ware and all his files were already encrypted. Including some very important pictures and a large Firebird...

When you first start using a brand-new Mac or performed a clean install of macOS, you are presented with Setup Assistant, it creates the first user account and sets up...

RClone is a command line program that syncs files and directories to and from a handful of cloud services...

Quick Look is a quick preview feature developed by Apple for the OS X system. It was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. By default the feature can be used by selecting...

Despite the fact that mDNS has been around since 2000 many people don't even use it. Unfortunetly you can’t just disable the mDNSResponder launch daemon or the DNS...

Have you ever noticed that Microsoft is unable to produce good workflows in their products? Their products have settings preferences and features all jumbled up...