David Rayner has been writing this list of VI/VIM features for the past 21 years, and it is still updated frequently today. The
list covers the obvious things like macros, simple movement and so forth, however it also goes into detail of
the these and [...]

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I’d like to welcome you to the first in a (hopefully) long series of Mac video tips.
We decided to start making videos because some things are easier to explain this way. OS X has lots of sexy features, and sometimes an image just doesn’t cut it.
Quicksilver is the the launcher of choice for many Mac [...]

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VIM can be a little difficult for beginners and usually they give up, move on and go back to some weaker text
editor and ignore the fact that they would become much more efficient with VIM.

The problem I see most people having is getting their heads around modes and the commands. VIM has 3 modes, 2 [...]

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Every Windows laptop I’ve ever encountered has the ability to click with the trackpad turned on by default; Macs, on the other hand, come with this feature disabled by default. I find this feature to be extremely annoying because it tends to lead to a lot of misclicks, but I can see how it can [...]

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Key bindings are those combinations of keys that allow you to make simple and complex functions/actions available in a single command. For example to go to the beginning of a line you could just press Control-A, to captilize a word Control-u, to delete a world Option-d. These are set in two files, one of which [...]

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This is essentially a list of every single keyboard shortcut available in OS X. To access this list, open System Preferences and proceed to the Keyboard & Mouse section. Then click on the Keyboard Shortcut tab. This brings up a menu of every keyboard shortcut that’s built into OS X.
To enable pre-existing shortcuts, put a [...]

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Ever since Safari 3, Apple has included an excellent feature in Safari called the “Web Inspector.” The Web Inspector is a surprisingly useful and practical debug tool that does not appear in Safari by default.

To launch and make use of the Web Inspector, one must enable Safari’s debug menu by running a simple Terminal command. [...]

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Up until today unlocking version 1.1.3 was near/actually impossible (depending on how lucky you are), however some guy released this app available here, and now all you have to do is download, open the app and click on “Start”.

Along with the hack comes: ability to use another SIM card from any carrier and country, ability [...]

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A great new app has burst onto the scene for Macs; that being ScreenFlow. ScreenFlow is an application for creating screencasts. Already ScreenFlow has more features than any other current screencasting app, (almost the same if you combined them all!) including: an awesome editor, being able to add in amazing effects, being able to simultaneously [...]

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