Best Open Source Software for Mac OS X

September 21, 2011

Here is my list of the best free and open source software for Mac OS X. Web Browsing Chrome A very simple, yet powerful and secure browser created by Google. Firefox A highly popular, fast, free web browser. Utilities: The Unarchiver Uncompress tar, zip, rar and everything else. Video Playback: MPlayer Can play almost all video [...]

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How to Update baseband 5.15.04 to 6.15.00 for iPhone 3GS

September 20, 2011

I have a friend who recently bought an iPhone 3GS off from craigslist and asked me if I could help him to jailbreak and unlock it. The phone was 3GS, 4.1 with baseband 5.15.04. After checking around, I noticed that baseband 5.15.04 was unlock-able and in order to have the phone unlocked, we had two options: either [...]

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How to Change Your Display Name in Gmail?

September 19, 2011

I recently needed to change my name in my Gmail account, it was embarrassing but after spending over half an hour, I still couldn’t figure out how I remember it was pretty easy several years ago but the feature is now a little more hidden. I kept concentrating on the “General” tab and overlooked the other tabs. [...]

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Device isn’t Eligible for the Requested Build

September 12, 2011

I recently bought an iPhone 4 off from Craigslist. It was already jailbroken with version 4.3.5. While playing around with the phone, I happened to turn it off and it wouldn’t come back on. After some Googling, I found out that the phone was “tethered jailbreak”. What this means is every time I need to [...]

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How to change YARPP match threshold?

June 28, 2011

If you are searching for a way to change Yet Another Related Posts Plugin’s match threshold, here is how: According to the plugin author, this option is hidden by default. To display this option so that you can change it: First, go to the YARPP options (located under Settings, after you logged in to your [...]

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Mac Tips: Maximizing Windows to Full Screen

May 18, 2011

I like the way Mac maximize browser windows to the website content but at times (i.e. while reading news), I prefer to maximize my browser windows to the maximum of my screen instead. There are some apps available to achieve this but I do not like to install too many software on my macbook. Here [...]

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Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys for Macbook

May 18, 2011

Here are the keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys in Macbook laptops. Command Explanation fn + left arrow home, takes you to the beginning of a page inside a multiple pages document. fn + command + left arrow home, takes you to the beginning of the entire document. fn + [...]

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How to show all opened windows on Macbook

May 18, 2011

Sometimes, while browsing the Internet, you probably experience some pop-up advertisement windows. Here is how to see all opened browser windows so you can close them: fn + F10 This command displays all opened browser windows fn + F9 This command displays all opened windows and folders in your Mac

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Putty Equivalent for Mac OS X

May 17, 2011

Did you just switch to Mac and searching for something similar to PuTTY? In Mac, there is a similar, built-in application called Terminal. To start Terminal, go to your Mac’s Applications folder => click on the Utilities folder => then click on Terminal. How to access a web server using the Terminal? # ssh username@server.address.com [...]

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