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 OS X Disk Utility Repair Tutorial

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We use a MacBook Pro (Mac OS X is macOS Sierra) to conduct most of the work we need to do on rjmprogramming.com.au and it is conventional in the sense it still uses a hard disk and we backup onto … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Photos App Smart Albums Primer Tutorial

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There are a lot of ways to organize your photographs in the online world. We tend to involve the hard disk of our MacBook Pro for this and use the MacBook Pro’s Time Machine backup as a means to back … Continue reading →

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Time Machine Backup via Energy Saver Tutorial

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It’s MacBook Pro backup via Mac OS X’s Time Machine again, and the timing is into the afternoon. Although we are allowed to do other things while a Time Machine backup is occurring, today we’re going to call it quits, … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Snipping Tool Primer Tutorial

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Are you often surfing the net, or doing something else on your Windows 10 PC, and come across a scenario where a “snippet” of the screen is something you’d like to screenshot and share with someone, or otherwise save as … Continue reading →

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Renaming Scenario in Single Folder Primer Tutorial

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The renaming of files in any automated or bulk or batch line of thinking … is most often tackled with server applications, not web applications … due to security risks … true with today’s work below too with the difference … Continue reading →

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Linux Watch Primer Tutorial

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Command line work, when you are wanting to monitor something in real time, can be a tad repetitive, using the keyboard up arrow a lot in our case. But there is the … Linux command watch … watch runs command … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Finder Drag to Terminal Command Line Tutorial

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Today’s blog posting titular (and main) message is really a tip to those Mac OS X users that enjoy command line work, via the Terminal (desktop) application. Do you waste a fair bit of time using the cd command to … Continue reading →

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Web Meets Mobile via iOS Desktop Icon Tutorial

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There are a few reasons why we are excited by the rudimentary “out of the box” (of an operating system … ah, that may explain it) functionality we are about to feature today, that being “iOS desktop shortcut creation”, akin to … Continue reading →

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