How to burn an ISO to a USB stick
Here is how to write a ISO file to a USB stick so you can boot from it. Run the diskutil command to get a list of disk. Be very careful to make sure you select the correct disk. Here…
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How to burn an ISO image to a CD/DVD in OS X
Insert the blank DVD When OS X prompts what to do with the blank disk click Ignore Find the ISO file in Finder Right Click and choose Burn Image “…” to Disc
How to erase a rewritable CD or DVD in OS X
Its rather simple actually. Insert the CD or DVD into the SuperDrive You should see an icon appear on the desktop like when you mount any other drive. Simply right click on the icon and choose erase. NOTE: I’ve…
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Using a bigger Range of colours from code in Unity
Create a new C# script in your project called CSSColors.cs and then copy and paste the code below into it. You should then be able to use the colour names specified anywhere in your project. public class CSSColors {…
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Optionals in Swift 3
Swift Optionals A type the either has a “wrapped” value or is nil. e.g. let imagePaths = [“star”: “/glyphs/star.png”,”portrait”: “/images/content/portrait.jpg”,”spacer”: “/images/shared/spacer.gif”] Getting a dictionary’s value using a key returns an optional value, so imagePaths[“star”] has the type String? e.g. if…
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Disabling the Mac Boot / Start up Chime Sound
A) Mute sound before shutting down. B) Run the following command in Terminal sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80 c) To turn it back on again, run this command in terminal, sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%01
Using RegEx in Notepad++
Using the following RegEx strings in NotePad++ to clean up book marks file. Do a Search and replace, In for search for fields put the following strings In the replace field, put nothing, Make sure regex is selected. ADD_DATE=”[^”]+” LAST_MODIFIED=”[^”]+”…
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How to us ln to make links in Unix
I often found the Unix command ln confusing. It just seems kind of back to front to me. Here for my reference and anyone else, is how to use it. $ ln -sv <existing_folder> <new_link_name> -s to create a symbolic…
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Change mouse scroll direction in Windows
How to Reverse the mouse scroll direction in windows TL;DR – Run regedit as an admin, search for “FlipFlopWheel” and replace the 0’s with 1’s, unplug and reinsert the mouse. Step-By-Step. Open Control Panel, double click “Mouse” to open…
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How to run a shell script in OS X by double-clicking
First in terminal make the script executable by typing: chmod a+x (yourscriptname) Then, in Finder, right-click your file and select “Open with” and then “Other…”. Here you select the application you want the file to execute into, in…
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