Enhanced Open Terminal Here, for Leopard at Maururu

Ever find it annoying that you can’t go from the terminal to the same directory in the finder or vice versa on the Mac? So am I! It just seems terribly inefficient for power users who are proficient with the terminal to have to open up the terminal app and then manually cd into the current directory. Aside from just a waste of time and extra keystrokes (yes, tab to auto-complete does help a lot), it’s not easy to remember the exact path to the current directory. On top of that, OS X likes to make it harder for regular users to access root folders and it becomes a pain to use. I finally gave up and googled for solutions to go from finder to terminal today and found a great time-saver: Enhanced Open Terminal Here.

Manually Downgrading iPhone OS

If for some reason you’ve ran into a situation where you want to downgrade your iPhone’s OS but iTunes just won’t comply with your command, I’ve found that there’s an easy way to force the action:

1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and have iTunes opened
2. Hold down both the power and home buttons until the iPhone disappeared from the devices list in iTunes
3. Release the power button but continue to hold down the home button until iTunes detects there’s a device in recovery mode
4. Hold down shift on Windows or option key on the Mac while pressing Restore in the iPhone screen in iTunes to initiate a restore to the desired version of firmware

Live!

Finally finished setting up my site and basic wordpress installation! It took me awhile just to settle on the combination of hosting and domain registrar. In the end, I decided to go with Site5.com for the hosting and GoDaddy for domain. Site5 is currently (and has been) promoting 25% discount but it’s not hard to find the 26% discount if you look just a little bit harder. The promotion code I used to get the 26% discount was ‘BPJOBBRD’.

So what’s my impression of Site5 so far? Not bad at all actually! I was initially a little suspicious of their offer of unlimited bandwidth and storage as it’s usually a recipe for disaster as hosting companies will try to overcrowd their server with clients just to make up for the margin. However, the highest load I’ve seen so far on my server is a mere 1.5, very respectable considering they claim to have ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ reveals they have 8 cores on the machine.

[~]# uptime
02:23:45 up 35 days, 16:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.75, 0.74, 0.80