Homebrew is a the missing package manager for Mac OS. Brew cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. If you’re using these tools and would like to upgrade all of the applications you have, run the following command. brew...

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It seriously irks me when general public operating systems build in default features that send data to their servers without clearly indicating so. Both Microsoft (with Windows 10) and Apple (with Yosemite) have done so. Disabling these features doesn’t take long so here’s what you need to do. Windows 10...

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My Macbook Pro sometimes doesn’t detect it’s web camera when I’m trying to join a video call and it’s painful to have to reboot the machine to fix it. A simpler way (especially if you have root access to your machine) is to kill VDCAssistant from the command line. sudo...

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It’s been a bit over 24 hours of using OS X Yosemite and I’m liking all the UI sugar it’s added. So far, my regular applications work fine after the upgrade but the IDEA based IDE set (IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine etc.) seem to have a problem which has been also reported...

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Installing Oracle’s version of Java on your machine does (for most machines I’ve encountered) add a Java Home system variable. Rarely however it doesn’t work on some machines. Such folks are recommended to add the path themselves. On a Mac, you can do this by using the following export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)...

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First of all, I should say, the only source I have is this youtube video. Apple wheel is a “revolutionary” laptop with no keyboard, just a giant scroll wheel :| I kid you not, that’s what it says :-/ The guy in that video apparently took 45 minutes to type...

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