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Meet Yakuake, another pop-up terminal program. Contrary to Tilda (which I have covered recently), the Yakuake is the renowned and appreciated one. It supports many features - like tabs - which serve not only as eye candy. Why do we need this kind of program? There are many reasons. One of them might be that we need to use the console on Linux. Some of us do it rarely; others do more things than they would ever do using a GUI. Here comes the possibility to use it in-a-flash; no need to wait a second till a terminal emulator fires up (one second might not be too much, but why not speed things up ?)

The best way to put your newly jailbroken iPhone 2.0 to good use is to turn it into a cellphone modem for your laptop. When tapping out an email or pinching and swiping on the iPhone's web browser...

When you don't want to depend solely on the official App Store to get your iPhone 2.0 applications, you want to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch—and less than two weeks after the iPhone 2.0...

Now that you've mastered find, programmer Eric Wendelin describes several ways in which grep (Global Regular Expression Print) can make you more productive at the command line.

Programmer Eric Wendelin says you can get a lot more done with sets of files at the command line once you've mastered the basics of find, an old school search tool. Find in and of itself gives you...

TechRepublic's 10 Things blog posts 10 shortcut ideas for Linux users (and Terminal-friendly OS X hackers) to make the terminal a friendlier, faster place to work. To use them, open up the .bashrc...

You already know that typing say something into the Mac's Terminal will literally make your Mac say "something." The UsingMac blog posts a few more nifty text-to-speech commands that will make your...

Mac user Adam Laiacano came up with a neat way to embed his iCal calendar on his desktop—in text, using our favorite text calendar, Remind. You've already seen how to keep your calendar in...

Shell-lovers are going to flip for this one: Goosh.org, which bills itself "the unofficial google shell," puts a Unix-like command line interface to Google on a web page using the magic of Ajax. Head...

The default prompt in Windows' Command Prompt isn't the easiest to read, but Microsoft has a font, Consolas, that works much better in a terminal, as attested to by our commenters. The Digital...

Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that...

Mac guy Rob Griffiths points out a few brand new command line utilities in Leopard, like the handy dot_clean command, which sweeps away Mac system files that start with a dot and annoy the hell out...

The Digital Streets blog posts a tip on how to send Twitters from a command line using a little utility named cURL. The blog shows the command to install cURL in Ubuntu, but the app is available for...

The Tombuntu blog does the yeoman's work for Linux users eager to try out the third beta release of Firefox 3. Using one terminal command, early adopters can get their hands on it and run it in a...

Mac OS X Leopard only: You wouldn't think that Leopard's new Quick Look feature would work anywhere but from Finder, but you'd be wrong. From the command line in Terminal, you can invoke Quick Look...