Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Perl CGI File Information Primer Tutorial

Today we once again venture into the world of Perl CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on our Apache/PHP/MySql CentOS web server, this time to investigate using the Perl CGI to show some file information via the Perl access to the Linux … Continue reading

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Paintbrush and Grab Primer Tutorial

The Mac application Grab is a very useful tool … will avoid the use of “little” because the theme of today’s tutorials is directed towards using what is default with the operating system … Operating System Software … The Best … Continue reading

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PHP ob_start and Linux tee Primer Tutorial

Today we set up a performance timer for the use or not of the PHP ob_start() / ob_end_flush() buffering method duo (plus other related methods, as you will read from these links, and, later, below, hopefully). Tests seem to show … Continue reading

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Mac Preview Annotation Primer Tutorial

The Mac OS X application called Preview is a very useful tool and its name explains it quite well in that: it creates output like you’d see in a Print Preview scenario, before you okay it for hardcopy printing it … Continue reading

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Mac Sharing iPhoto and flickr Primer Tutorial

It’s been a while since we talked about Photo Sharing, and we’ve talked in the past about some online Photo Sharing repositories called flickr and Picasa (with the tutorial Photo Sharing with Flickr and Picasa Primer Tutorial we did a … Continue reading

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Mac iMovie Event to YouTube Primer Tutorial

YouTube is a huge repository of people’s creative powers with video, movies, advertisements, songs, presentations, tutorials and any other audio-visual idea imaginable with moving pictures and sound, or even not-much-moving pictures. A Mac laptop is well positioned “out of the … Continue reading

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Xcode Sprite Kit Game iOS Application Primer Tutorial

The desktop Xcode IDE Sprite Kit Game we talked about yesterday is a desktop Mac OS Application, so today we show you some equivalence of functionality for an iOS mobile application, suitable for use on an iPhone or iPad but … Continue reading

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Xcode Sprite Kit Game Application Primer Tutorial

The Xcode IDE, like many IDEs, holds that special fascination for occasions when you, the user, (or youse, the users (chortle, chortle)) can go “File->New Project”. With a few button presses the user will feel that satisfaction of making the … Continue reading

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