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📅 July 18, 2020

HOW TO: Make a Bootable USB by Downloading an .ISO or an Image Directly to Your Thumbdrive

Make a Bootable USB by Download an .ISO or an Image Directly to Your Thumbdrive

When you want to install a new OS, you usually create a bootable USB flash drive with the .iso of that OS. To do that you can use GUI programs like Etcher or Rufus or the dd command. Or maybe you’ll take the more convinient route and create a multiple-ISO bootable drive.

But, maybe, you just want to create an Ubuntu LTS bootable flash drive and just throw it in your backpack or hang it on your keychain, just in case you’ll ever need it. Maybe, for any reason, you don’t want to download the iso or image to your HDD/SSD. Maybe you’re out of space. But you really need to make a bootable drive.

You can just write the ISO files directly to your USB drive as you download it from the internet.

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📅 July 13, 2020

An Awesome CLI Tool to Get Info About Movies and TV Shows

A CLI for getting information about movies and TV shows.

If you love movies and TV shows, here’s a nifty little command line tool that will make your life much easier when researching what you’re going to watch next.

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📅 July 9, 2020

Transfer Files Over Wi-Fi Between a Computer and a Mobile Device by Scanning a QR Code

A foss, cross-platform program to send files between your computer and mobile devices

If you’re looking for a cross platform command line program that allows you to send files between your computer and your mobile devices ( and vice-versa ) you should take a look at qrcp.

It binds a web server to the address of your Wi-Fi network interface on a random port and creates a handler for it. The default handler serves the content and exits the program when the transfer is complete. When used to receive files, qrcp serves an upload page and handles the transfer.

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📅 May 7, 2014

Betty Is A Siri-Like App That Turns Plain English Into Code

a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands

Working with the command line isn’t always easy as you have to memorize all sorts of commands like like “rm,” for removing a file, or “grep,” which finds particular chunks of text buried in a collection of files. That’s why, Google engineer and open source developer, Jeff Pickhardt created Betty a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands, the commands that popped up on the UNIX operating system in the ’70s and are still used by Apple’s OS X operating system, the open source Linux OS, and even Microsoft’s PowerShell environment.

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📅 January 21, 2012

HOW TO: Use iPhone DevTeam’s CLI Jailbreak

Yesterday, the iPhone DevTeam has released a CLI ( command-line ) jailbreak that got most users confused. This is indeed a jailbreak, but it’s meant for advanced users, and also for debugging and tinkering. So, basically, it’s not for probably 95% of the users out there. If you still want to try it, jump over the break, where we show you the basics. You can take it away from there…

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📅 May 25, 2011

HOW TO: Remotely Send Text Messages From Command Line

Today, we’re going to show you a nifty way to use the command line in order to send text messages from your iPhone.

Today, we’re going to show you a nifty way to use the command line in order to send text messages from your iPhone. Continue reading “HOW TO: Remotely Send Text Messages From Command Line”