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@lornajane
lornajane / mac.md
Last active May 9, 2024 01:22
Keyboard Only OS X

Keyboard-only Mac Cheatsheet

Hi, I'm Lorna and I don't use a mouse. I have had RSI issues since a bad workstation setup at work in 2006. I've tried a number of extra hardware modifications but what works best for me is to use the keyboard and only the keyboard, so I'm in a good position and never reaching for anything else (except my coffee cup!). I rather unwisely took a job which required me to use a mac (I've been a linux user until now and also had the ability to choose my tools carefully) so here is my cheatsheet of the apps, tricks and keyboard shortcuts I'm using, mostly for my own reference. Since keyboard-only use is also great for productivity, you may also find some of these ideas useful, in which case at least something good has come of this :)

Apps List

There's more detail on a few of these apps but here is a quick overview of the tools I've installed and found helpful

Tool Link Comments
@jlyman
jlyman / electron-codesigner.sh
Created October 21, 2015 16:21
Current version of codesigner script I'm trying to use to sign Electron apps for use on OS X (not MAS).
# Invoke this script with a relative `.app` path
# EX:
# codesign.sh "dist/osx/MyApp-darwin-x64/MyApp.app"
# I had better luck using the iPhoneOS codesign_allocate
export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/codesign_allocate"
#export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/codesign_allocate"
# Next two are specified in Apple docs:
# export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/codesign_allocate"
@xero
xero / irc.md
Last active May 3, 2024 23:19
irc cheat sheet

IRC Reference

Not intended as a guide for newbies, more like a "cheat sheet" for the somewhat experienced IRC user, especially one who wields some power over a channel.

The Basics

  • /join #channel
    • Joins the specified channel.
  • /part #channel
  • Leaves the specified channel.
@duncansmart
duncansmart / ios-sms.sql
Created September 25, 2014 12:29
Query to extract iOS Messages from backup
-- Do a backup to iTunes and open "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\*\3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28" as a SQLite database
SELECT chat.chat_identifier, message.is_from_me, datetime(message.date + 978307201, 'unixepoch') as date, message.text
FROM chat
JOIN chat_message_join on chat.ROWID = chat_message_join.chat_id
JOIN message on message.ROWID = chat_message_join.message_id
order by message.date
@jmvrbanac
jmvrbanac / install_pyenv.sh
Last active February 16, 2023 09:29
Install pyenv on Ubuntu
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install git python-pip make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
git clone https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper.git ~/.pyenv/plugins/pyenv-virtualenvwrapper
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
@marsam
marsam / pdfcrop.py
Last active July 16, 2023 15:16
pdf crop
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Pdfcrop
=======
Based on pdfcrop.pl_. Uses the BoundingBox [#]_
Dependencies:
- PyPDF2_
@jfloff
jfloff / mamp.md
Last active March 6, 2024 09:43
How to get MAMP to work with SSL ... Yes really.

First of all you need to be able to run MAMP in port 80. This is a "heat check" if you don't have any process jamming http ports. You can check it like this:

sudo lsof | grep LISTEN

If you do happen to have any process with something like this *:http (LISTEN), you are in trouble. Before with adventure check if it isn't MAMP itself (yeah, you should close that beforehand)

ps <pid of that process>

If you don't see MAMP, you are in good hands, I have just the thing for you:

@Neil-Smithline
Neil-Smithline / idletime.sh
Created March 18, 2012 15:33
Mac OS X Idle Time Shell Script
#!/bin/sh
# Get MacOSX idletime. Shamelessly stolen from http://bit.ly/yVhc5H
/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | /usr/bin/awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print int($NF/1000000000); exit}'
@henrik
henrik / ocr.markdown
Created March 3, 2012 17:07
OCR on OS X with tesseract

Install ImageMagick for image conversion:

brew install imagemagick

Install tesseract for OCR:

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Or install without --all-languages and install them manually as needed.

@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active March 8, 2024 02:11
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh