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Change Your Company Name In XCode

If you want your own company name to be automatically included in your XCode source files instead of this:
//
// helloworld.m
// helloworld
//
// Created by John Smith on 24/10/09.
// Copyright __MyCompanyName__ 2009. All rights reserved.
//
then it is time to open up your Terminal app.
You will find it at ~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app.
Enter the following in the [...]

How To Find What Linux Distro You Are In?

I was recently doing something over ssh on my hosts shared server and realized that I didn’t know what Linux distro I was working in.
I did some Googling and found a number of suggestions on how to find this information out. Only the last of these three actually worked for me but I thought I [...]

SSH Remote Access On Your iPhone

We are truly living in the future. Today while riding the bus to work I used my iPhone to log onto my web server using an SSH terminal app called TouchTerminal. As the bus made its way through the rain I was working at a command line logged on to a LAMP server implementing some PHP security measures that I [...]

Serial Communication Tool For OSX

Coming from a Windows background I previously used HyperTerminal as a serial communication tool. When I moved to a Mac I tried an app called zterm that is a sort of HyperTerminal equivalent, but found it to be a bit cumbersome. The best, and my favourite way that I have found to accomplish communication over [...]