Random Youtube Playback…
Below is the readme from my GitHub project MRYoutubePlaySubs. If you are part of the #ifollowyouyoufollow me movement on Facebook and elsewhere, this might be of… Read More »Random Youtube Playback…
Terminal
20 Years of Composing…
Happy New Year and a wonderful 2020 everyone! As we have changed into a new decade I was reflecting on my compositions and how my… Read More »20 Years of Composing…
pdf to kindle conversion
Recently I inherited an old Kindle reader and wanted to use it to read academic papers. The problem with most of these kind of papers is that they are formatted into 2 columns.
Typical 2 column academic paper
collating scanned pdf files
I am digitizing some old notebooks but my current scanner doesn’t allow for double sided scanning. What’s even worse is that the even pages… Read More »collating scanned pdf files
Creating a tiled figure from multiple image files
Tiling:
Today I would like to show a simple and quick solution of how to create a tiled figure (in Terminal).
I am writing a paper right now and needed to show 8 related score examples in a single figure:
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OS Photos woes…
… or exdif and sorting pictures!!
Ever since Apple “upgraded” Aperture to Photos I have had issues with my Photos library. I have over 250Gb of pictures and videos! Aperture managed it beautifully, but Photos seems to have issues (not to mention all the missing features!!!).
Downgrading OSX
Upgrading HD… Downgrading OS
After upgrading my failing HD to a new SSD I had to upgrade to OS X El Capitan. For various reasons (none of which really mattered in the end) I thought I needed to downgrade to OS X Yosemite.
Terminal: make it, move it, lose it, …
Last time we looked at how to move around your file system using terminal with cd and ls. Today we are going to look at how to interact with the content you find using those commands.
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Terminal: It’s a Wild Batch
The real power of the command line comes from the ability to work on your data in batch. We already saw the * character as the wildcard. It will match anything and everything. For example if we were to look for a file and only remembered the first letter of it we could write:
a*
This would match every file starting with “a”.
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Terminal: who are you? The big world of alias
An alias is just what you think it should be. You are giving a command a different name. You could, for example rename ls to execute when you type list, or delete instead of rm. Typically you are trying to shorten a command or combine several often used ones.
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Hello World…
For my first post I thought I would start a small series on UNIX commands, more specifically how to use the Terminal app on OS… Read More »Hello World…
Terminal Intro
The Terminal application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) on OSX is a powerful tool for users to gain greater control over their working environment. Since OSX is based on UNIX, most UNIX commands will work here. However, Apple also added custom commands that leverage the power of OSX for the command line (more about that in a later post).
While I was aware of the “Command Line” for quite some time, I have never had the need or time to delve into this daunting and sometimes scary environment. This changed when OSX (10.7 ?) started to hide the “Library” folder from us and I needed to access it. So I googled and found this:
chflags nohidden ~/Library/