Alias App Launcher

The best way to get more familiar with the Terminal is to leave it open and figure out how to do stuff with it. A good start is using it to launch applications. If you’re one of those people who likes keyboard shortcuts you might like this Snippet. Murphy will show you how Terminal can launch apps with a single letter.

Murphy will also introduce the cat command, short for concatenate. It’s a quick and efficient way to add content to text files.

Remember, the Terminal is dangerous. If you haven’t watched it already, watch this warning Snippet. Or watch it again. Then watch the screencast and start launching apps!

Click for more Terminal screencasts.

Wake Your Mac From a PC

Or wake your Mac from a Mac. Or wake your PC from that very same Mac…..you get the idea.

This Snippet features a command line tool and, as always, step by step animated instructions.

We’re all going to need tools like this soon. The family wants to watch something on the new iTV, but the G5 upstairs is snoozing away. Wake it up!

If you want to wake your Mac from another Mac look no further than the WakeOnLan Widget.

But if you need to wake up some Macs (or PCs) from a PC, take a look at what Murphy has to offer. Click Watch Now below.

Give Me Some Space

Over time iPhoto gathers more and more images, occupying an increasingly large portion of your disk. When you delete photos from Albums they remain in the iPhoto Library, an attempt to protect you from disaster.

This Snippet is for users who allow iPhoto to copy their images into its Library. We’ll cover a couple nifty ways to zap photos from your disk.

If you are somewhat advanced and have iPhoto reference your photos somewhere else, this doesn’t apply to you. You can change this setting in the Preferences panel.

This Snippet also shows how to install a Scripts icon on your Menu bar. For more information on these Scripts take a gander on the Apple site. There are some interesting details, including how to assign keyboard shortcuts to these scripts.

Super Strength Google Calculator

This might look like a Google tip to you. But since it’s built into an application that ships with OS X this is a Mac tip too!

The Google calculator does a lot more than math. Look no further than Google when you need to know how many pesos are in a ruble. Or how drams relate to micrograms. It can even help with Christmas.

It’s all right there in Safari. Click Watch Now to see what Google can do.

Convert to MP3

Murphy has said it before. Not everything about your Mac is obvious. Like converting files to mp3.

You’re a pretty savvy computer user. So you look for the Export command. But Export in iTunes wants to create a text file, not an mp3. Quicktime doesn’t look like much help either. What are you going to do? Click below to watch the Snippet.