OS X

How to open the iOS Simulator via the terminal

The simulator can be super useful, but equally super hard to find. Here is the path and how to open it.

Sep 29, 2013

Hide the desktop icons on Mac OS X

A two step way using the defaults command to hide the icons from the desktop in Mac OS X.

Nov 27, 2013

Display disk usage with the du command

How to display the total of the current directory or a particular directory, as well as listing subtotals (subdirectories).

Dec 5, 2013

A more powerful version of grep

The utility command grep has a more powerful brother that let us use POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.

Jan 31, 2014