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 )

Windows File Server and File Sharing Primer Tutorial

Was discussing Windows and File Servers the other day with a student and realized it is a subject often taken for granted now in workplaces, and perhaps in home networks. The way you can share files between networked computers has … Continue reading →

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AirServer on Mac Primer Tutorial

Yesterday with our Xcode Swift iOS Application End Game Primer Tutorial we got a lot of help here submitting an iOS mobile application for Submission Review as preparation for display at the Apple Store. The hardest part of that “end … Continue reading →

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Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

Yesterday’s tutorial Xcode Swift Image Assets Primer Tutorial needed lots of image “fitting” to go on man person. On a Mac desktop with a MacBook Pro laptop, we find (Mac) Paintbrush to be that little bit friendlier than Gimp to … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.1.3 Install Tutorial

Do you have “install” days … where you’ve saved up a couple of long download installs that can proceed at the same time … perhaps arranged because if you are interrupted with something, you may as well bank up all … Continue reading →

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Photo Booth view of Android Camera Google+ Upload Tutorial

We spend a lot of time on our Mac laptop (to make the content for this blog), and now that we try to explain a few Android (device) matters we are finding Photo Booth more and more useful as the … Continue reading →

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FileZilla Secure ftp Primer Tutorial

When you maintain a Web Server there is often a requirement to upload (from your local disk) to the web server and download (from the web server) files you are working on? We discussed this previously with Web Server Access … Continue reading →

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Windows Command Line Interactive sort Tutorial

Today’s blog posting was going to be called Windows Command Line Piped sort Tutorial, but, alas, there is a good reason the Windows (MS-DOS) sort command is an exe file … you need a compiled program to work the piping, … Continue reading →

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Windows Command Line sort Tutorial

If you were to nominate the most frequent “chore” you set your “software programs” to do, and we should never forget we are here to make software that achieves something, there is a big chance you’d choose the job of … Continue reading →

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