terminal
Gaming

Play Nyancat On Your Terminal Because You Can

My nerd dream came true: 1) Open your Terminal in Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or whatever the hell you are running your toaster on. 2) Type telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu. 3. Enjoy an endless nyancat loop in glorious ASCII.

April 27, 2011
Online

Hacker Typer Makes You Look Like You Actually Know How To Code

So I’m sitting at my computer one day and you walk up and ask if I have such and such album on my computer. I say, no I don’t have it, BUT LET ME HACK INTO SOMEONE’S COMPUTER AND GET IT BECAUSE I LIKE PRETENDING THAT I LIVE IN A MID-1990s CYBERPUNK MOVIE.

February 24, 2011
Computing

How To Force Your Mac To Stay Awake Indefinitely Via The Command Line

Menubar app Caffeine can keep your Mac from falling asleep for a set amount of time, but if you want to control sleep yourself, through the OS X Terminal, you can do so very easily with a simple command.

January 27, 2011
Computing

Become A Command Line Ninja With These Time-Saving Shortcuts

The command can be quite powerful, but typing in long commands and file paths gets tedious pretty quickly. Here are some shortcuts that will have you running long, tedious or complex commands with just a few keystrokes.

January 26, 2011
Software

Cathode Puts The Sex Back In Terminal Emulators

Twenty bucks for a terminal emulator when there’s already a perfectly serviceable one on your Mac? Secret Geometry’s “Cathode” makes a good case for itself. It can look like nearly any terminal on any old flickering CRT monitor.

September 18, 2010
Software

Whoa! Your Mac Can Make The ‘Droid’ Sound

Oh this is fun! You know that noise that Motorola Droids make? “Drooooid” in that cute droid-y voice. Your Mac can make that exact same sound! It feels a little wrong but damn if it isn’t satisfying. Here’s how:

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