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Page Up, Page Down, Home and End Keys

Isa Goksu — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:49:33 +0000

One of the hardest thing for a new Mac users is the keyboard shortcuts in OS X. If you’ve just bought a Mac and try to find the delete, home, end or any common keys from Windows/Linux operating systems, you can’t :) Even you google and find some helpful information, they’re using some weird signs to represent keyboard shortcuts. Honestly this happened to me as well. I guess there are two reasons behind it; first Mac operating systems are mainly designed for graphic applications and second you’re so used to use your Windows Minded side of your brain :P

Connect Internet Through Your iPhone 3G

Isa Goksu — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:44:40 +0000

Couple weeks ago, I was waiting in the hospital line and luckily I had my MBP with me. I turned it on and tried Internet connection, but no luck. There was no free wireless access anywhere close :( Then I tried to connect through my iPhone 3G. This time I was lucky, it just worked. Here is how I did:

File Uploads are Much Easier with Drag and Drop

Isa Goksu — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:10:49 +0000

OSX has a lot of hidden gems in it. For other operating systems, when you need to find out this kind of gems (if they have :P), you have to wait to become a pro-user. Most of the time, it’s gonna be non-intuitive. However, OS X is nothing like that. Finding these little things are really easy and intuitive.

Autocomplete in Finder

Isa Goksu — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:23:24 +0000

Some of you may already be familiar that, OS X default shell in Terminal (tsch) has auto-complete feature. For instance, if you wanna type Downloads in the user’s home folder, you can just type Dow and press TAB. It’ll automatically complete the text to Downloads.

Dropbox

Isa Goksu — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:58:41 +0000

I was trying to find a way to back-up my stuff online. I’ve heard about me.com by Apple. However, I don’t like it. ‘Coz things are not exactly what I want. Yes it syncs ur files, backs up all your application settings, etc.. But there was something missing. I was looking for something very simple. Anyway, I found Dropbox. I’ve been using it for maybe last 2-3 months. And now I’m quite happy :)

Uninstalling MacPorts

Isa Goksu — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:08:01 +0000

Recently, I had some issues with MacPorts. I guess I ran some wrong commands.. Anyhow, basically I had to uninstall it. However, I couldn’t find anything to uninstall it. Either I was gonna remove everything one by one, or I had to obtain some scripts from somewhere in the Internet. So I dig into MacPorts site and found what I was looking for. Here is the script to uninstall everything related with MacPorts.

Learning IP Address in OS X

Isa Goksu — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:30:30 +0000

Learning IP address of your machine in OS X sometimes gives you a headache. Because when you try to use ifconfig command, you will get a response like: