Mac Tip: Find your screen resolution, through a command line
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Mac Tip: Find your screen resolution, through a command line

Most Mac users will jump right to there Displays system preference panel to find their resolution. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s quick and easy, and for the most part, it’s how I find it myself. However, it does require a graphical interface and because of this it’s not very helpful for scripting or remote management through SSH connections. In these cases you may want to use a command line.

 

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Tip: Remove bad SSH Key with an easy command
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Tip: Remove bad SSH Key with an easy command

Ok, so most of us have run in the dreaded Remote host identification has changed warning before. Which in turn makes us dig through our known_host file and delete that remote key entry. Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to even touch that file? Hit up the link for a quick command saving you some time and removes that bad entry.

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Update Java the safe way on OSX
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Update Java the safe way on OSX

We all know we shouldn’t click on links we don’t know, especially with so many phishing scams out there. Flash and Java updates have become one of the biggest forms of this. Many sites will prompt to update from a link. 

So be safe and ONLY update Java and flash from your system preferences and never from a random popup asking you to update.

Follow these steps to update Java

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QuickTip: Selection to Stickie
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QuickTip: Selection to Stickie

Sticky notes have always been a useful tool in the office. Giving you the ability to leave notes anywhere you like. Often people have a tendency to forget such an app exists quietly in their OSX application folders. This little trick will breath some life back into this long forgotten app again. 

By giving you an easy way to open a new Stickie with a selection of highlighted text.

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Tip: Verify if an email address is real
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Tip: Verify if an email address is real

for whatever reason, you may need to verify someone's email address. Yes, you could try The basic solution. Sending a test email and wait for a bounced back. However this is not very effective because of false positives due to catch all forwarding. Now there are many email verifying web service out their. But how do you know who to trust and which are just spam traps.

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