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 )

Mac VirtualBox Windows 8 IE 11 Primer Tutorial

Mac laptops are great “out of the box” but one thing they do not usually do “out of the box” is to help you with an easy way to test your web work on Internet Explorer. In this tutorial we … Continue reading →

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PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial

PostScript page-layout language enables a user to tailor the use of their hardcopy (or softcopy) documents that end up in this format. PostScript has been around a long time and you may come across printers, particularly on Windows, that don’t … Continue reading →

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Wine for Windows on Mac Primer Tutorial

Generally we think of Mac OS X and Windows as two different (operating system) worlds that don’t exactly see eye to eye, and in large part that can be correct, but today, with our tutorial, we (maybe?) introduce you to … Continue reading →

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Perl CGI Email Primer Tutorial

Today we again venture into the world of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on our Apache/PHP/MySql web server, this time to investigate using the Perl CGI to send emails via the Linux sendmail command. Found with the use of sendmail there … Continue reading →

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Xcode Cocoa-Applescript Dictation Program Primer Tutorial

Building on yesterday’s relevant Mac OS X Dictation Primer Tutorial as shown below, which addressed the Operating System view of the Dictation functionality, today we take some first steps down the road of writing an application to use this Dictation … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Dictation Primer Tutorial

The ability to use Dictation to text boxes using Mac OS X has been around awhile, but the means to demonstrate this for you in a tutorial got harder with Mac OS X Mavericks with the demise of an integrated … Continue reading →

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Windows Remote Desktop Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial regarding Windows Remote Desktop functionality builds on the previous relevant VNC Mac to PC Tutorial as shown below. This time it is more straightforward in that we connect two Windows computers (rather than a Mac and a Windows … Continue reading →

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Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have two really useful commands which help the user find files and/or directories … locate and find. Doubt there are many people out there who have not mislaid a computer file at some time or other. … Continue reading →

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