Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Linux Korn Shell Interactive Primer Tutorial

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Linux (or unix) support a number of shell command line environments, the default being Bash for Mac OS X and its Terminal application. My favourite shell is called Korn shell, because I got used to it a lot doing work … Continue reading →

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Java Swing ActionListener KeyListener Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that uses Swing functionality in Java to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) desktop program on a Mac laptop (but same code may well work, compiled on a Windows laptop (the same way)) that tests your … Continue reading →

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Objective-C Player and Game OOP Primer Tutorial

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There is change in the wind. And they call the wind Mariah. Do you see how those butterflies in Brazil have been flapping faster? Let me explain. With Apple iOS 8 there could be big changes to programming arrangements, and … Continue reading →

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PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial

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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

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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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Mac OS X Dictation Primer Tutorial

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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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Mac Dictionary Primer Tutorial

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Are you ever stuck for a word, or a word with the same meaning as some other word? … you need a dictionary, or a thesaurus. If you are on a Mac laptop, try the desktop application Dictionary, as shown … Continue reading →

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Tcl/Tk Bats and Ball Tutorial

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Good news today is a breakthrough on a put-off project, getting Tcl/Tk to work with Mac OS X Mavericks and Xcode 5.1 on a MacBook Pro laptop … answering, partially, the previous Tcl/Tk So Brilliant (but where do you start?) … Continue reading →

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