Re:Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development to...
by instakill on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:57AM
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"Cmd + ~" lets you switch between windows instead of apps.
Re:Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development to...
by bhousel on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:17PM
(#4289188)
To do the same thing as 'pmset noidle', I install Caffiene, free from the Mac App Store.
Re:Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development to...
by Tyr42 on Sunday July 29, 2012 @07:15PM
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Hey, in Mountain Lion, they added a caffeinate command to do the same thing from the command line, but with timers and stuff.
http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/07/interesting-new-unix-c...
Re:Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development to...
by rodly on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @11:38PM
(#4289249)
Thank you for your thorough reply. I'm going to look into all of those tools.
Re:Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development to...
by taligent on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @10:57PM
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Just to add to this. Two tricks I use every day:
1) You can drag file/folders to the Terminal and it will put the path.
2) open -e "/etc/hosts" will open the hosts file in TextEdit.
I started developing on linux, and it's really carried over to my mac, so I use the Terminal command line frequently and never really use xcode.
I strongly recommend homebrew [1], it's great for installing stuff, and I've never had a problem with it.
Another neat tool is Dash [2], which is a documentation searcher/viewer. If you like that kind of thing, it's great.
One thing I bought which was really useful was Witch [3], which brings back a more traditional alt-tab (command-tab) menu, where you can switch between windows instead of applications. It also lets you quit selected applications from the command-tab menu, among other things. Worth getting.
Another little app I sometimes use it Go2Shell [4] to open a terminal window in the current directory from finder. And you can use the built in `open` command to do the reverse. `open` is quite useful, so you can use whatever default application to open a file from the command line.
Another neat tool is `pmset noidle` (power manager set no idle), which stops your computer from sleeping or dimming the screen. Saves you from this situation (http://xkcd.com/196/)
[1]: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
[2]: http://kapeli.com/dash/
[3]: http://manytricks.com/witch/
[4]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go2shell/id445770608?mt=12