While working in Finder, sometimes I need to jump to Terminal.app to perform a command.
To do this I generally:

Launch the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
Type cd
Then drag the little icon from the Finder toolbar on to the Terminal

This copies the current path from Finder in to the command line.
This works fine, but there are [...]

Reader Alex Hwang recently wrote in about GLTerminal, a Terminal.app replacement that recreates a terminal from 20 years ago.

GLTerminal accomplishes this by:

Allowing you to change the screen brightness
Allowing you to “curve” the text so that the edges wrap backwards
Allowing you to make the screen flicker
Emulating a baud rate for painfully slow speeds

While GLTerminal doesn’t have [...]

A few months ago Travis wrote a great post on installing MacPorts. If you’ve never heard of MacPorts:

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

MacPorts makes [...]

I perform a lot of domain whois lookups. If I have an idea for a domain and want to check its availability, I generally do a search for domain whois and then lookup my domain with one of the listings.
There’s nothing wrong with this process, but with Quicksilver we can improve any task we do [...]

On any given day, my desktop is filled with screenshots and images I’ve saved while writing tips. Often my desktop looks like the following:

There are a couple of methods to get around saving images to the desktop–including saving them to the clipboard–but I actually really like this method.
I have my bottom right corner of my [...]

This is just awesome. I was stumbling around Google Code looking for something interesting to write about when I came across blacktree-visor–innocently tagged as a Quake-style terminal.
That line grabbed my intention and I decided to see what Visor was all about.
Visor is an application that attaches the Terminal to the top of your screen for [...]

A friend of mine and I were recently in an Apple Server class. In the course of the class every student is required to set up their server and client using the same username and password. With this little bit of information, the username and password, you can wreak havoc (in a non-destructive [...]

Once you introduce Quicksilver into your workflow, you wonder how you ever lived without it. We’ve already covered Quicksilver Interfaces and managing to-do lists with Quicksilver, but this just skims the surface of what Quicksilver is capable of.
One of my favorite uses for Quicksilver is for running terminal commands. Doing this was never difficult, but [...]

Eliza is a psychiatrist, and best of all, she offers her services free of charge to anyone with Mac OS X. To find her, open Terminal.app and type:emacs and hit enter/return. Then hold down Shift and press Esc. Now type:xdoctor then press enter/return. You have now entered Eliza’s office. She will ask you a series [...]

My absolute favorite advance in web browsing technology over the past decade or so is the idea of single-window browsing, or at least of multiple tabs in a single window. Just about every browser out there now allows you to keep all the different web pages you have open in a single window as multiple [...]