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Windows Command Line Start Primer Tutorial

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A lot of Windows desktop processing tasks require you to do more than one thing at a time (calling all afficianados of multitasking). Windows (from Microsoft) caters well for people who multitask, and there is a cute keyboard shortcut for … Continue reading →

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Windows Right Click Primer Tutorial

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If you’ve used Windows (by Microsoft) as a desktop/laptop operating system a lot and then switch to a Mac OS X environment new to you, for a while, you miss a lot of the features of Windows. As with many … Continue reading →

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Files Since Primer Tutorial

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A while ago we spoke of the Linux commands find and locate in Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial as shown below. After that you may have been thinking “That’s it! No more carrying on about directory listings and … Continue reading →

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XWindows Primer Tutorial

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The XWindow System is a windowing system most commonly found on unix or Linux operating systems. On the Mac OS X Linux system this XWindow System may be called X11, or more recently XQuartz. At one stage it was more … Continue reading →

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VB.Net Console Application Primer Tutorial

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Today we follow up on a Yahoo Answers question here (thanks) to investigate the simplest VB.Net project idea using the Windows .Net Framework IDE called Visual Studio … namely, the Console Application. This Console Application project type in Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Java Cut and Paste Primer Tutorial

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The clipboard is an important part of the GUI aspects to Windows and Mac OS X, and even non-GUI DOS windows or Unix/Linux console windows would have functionality to cut, paste and copy string data. Today’s Java program shows cut … Continue reading →

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Mac VirtualBox Windows 8 IE 11 Primer Tutorial

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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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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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