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Unix/Linux commands cheat sheet notebook

Unix/Linux commands cheat sheet notebook

Introduction to the Unix / Linux command notebook I first used Unix over 20 years ago when I was at college.  After that I got my first job and the company were then taking out their old Unix based system and were replacing it with a big IBM S/36 system which was...

Twitter client for Mac #Twitter

Twitter client for Mac #Twitter

The official Twitter client for the Mac died yesterday. When you try and start it now it fails to authenticate any of your accounts. This is because Twitter announced recently that they were going to stop developing and supporting their client on the Mac in an...

CMD Tab and CMD Space stopped working on Mac OSX

I find that I mostly use CMD Tab to switch between apps on my Mac and frequently use CMD Space to bring up Spotlight so I can launch apps.  Anyway these both suddenly stopped working.  I Googled this and the common advice is to go into the Activity monitor...