I use Mail for my RSS feed reader. Its free, built in and does the job I want it to. But there is one problem with Mail. There is no way to export the list for backup and future use. What happens if Mail crashes in somemysterious way. You would lose all of the URL’s. You could go back and try to add them all, but you will end up missing some. This simple Terminal script which I have found, solves this problem.
This is only a quick tip today since I am not feeling to great. If you have ever used Time Machine you can start a backup using the menu bar command. But that is a boring command way of doing things. We like playing with Terminal don’t we.
I have a new love on my Mac. That is the application GeekTool. It combines my love of Terminal and my love of the Mac’s GUI. The idea behind GeekTool is to display text on your desktop so you can see useful pieces of information. I like it because I don’t have to keep using Terminal. If you want more information check out my review on iLoveMacApps.
I like using Terminal. It can do hundreds of different things on my Mac which I wouldn’t normally do. Since I use it so much why don’t I customize it to my liking. Using a bit of Unix and Linux bash scripting it can easily be done. It doesn’t take a lot of changing but getting it exactly as you want is quite hard. You can’t really do a lot of harm with this tutorial, it just takes a while to tweak it to exactly as you want.
This is only a quick trick since my head hurts. Anyway if you open up the help window from Help > [App Name] Help you can move it around but it will be in front of the application window. This can be very annoying. Simply because you can’t really use both the help viewer and the application at the same time. There is a solution and as usual it is found in a Terminal command.
Terminal is great it has many features and programs which enable you to get a lot of work done. Another of these tips is sending Mail over a network to another Mac. For this you need a network, two Mac’s and Terminal access. If you don’t have that you can test it out with yourself. This tip has originally come from Sam, if you have a tip of your own which you want to send in, please contact me.
