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Add colours to your bash terminal in Mac OSX

Ben Haines — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:34:43 +0000

Thanks to the following post I have found out how to add helpful colours to directories and executable files in bash / terminal.

Add the following lines to your .bash_profile file in your home directory. Voila.

export CLICOLOR=1
export TERM=xterm-color

Want to add FLV support to QuickLook in Mac OSX?

Ben Haines — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:24:27 +0000

My answer to this questions was a big YES! Dug around the Internet and found the homepage of XDD(?).

http://homepage.mac.com/xdd/

In addition to his/her cool FLV QuickLook plugin he/she has also created a Folder and Archive plugin for QuickLook.

Download and install Perian
Simply drop the .qlgenerator file into “/Library/QuickLook”
Type “killall Finder” on the command line in a terminal window (if you don’t know what this is simply reboot)
Browse some .FLV files in Finder and you should be able to hit spacebar to bring up QuickLook – Voila!

My thanks go to XDD ;)

Free ID3 editor for Mac OSX / Apple

Ben Haines — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:59:14 +0000

Just in case you are looking for a free ID3 editor for Mac OSX / Apple. I stumbled across Musorg today… a cracking simple little ID3 editor that is completely free.

http://peippo.eu/musorg/

Another one to add to the list of great free Mac OSX apps ;)