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12 Cool Terminal Commands for OSX

Here are a list of cool OSX Terminal commands we came across and found worth sharing. Just run the commands in your Terminal.app and see what happens...

1. Add An Exposè Button To The Desktop

If you have reconfigured the F9 and F10 keys to something different you may want to use exposè. This hack adds a bigish blue button onto the desktop to enable you to use exposè. Clicking on it shows all the windows from one application (F10 default), option clicking it shows all windows (F9 default).

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool YES
killall Dock

YoDaa - The Design Process

Yodaa is a San Jose based Web Design Agency that images brands through it’s creativity and simplicity. Yodaa works to build most effective websites that helps a business meet their website objectives, captivate the customers and improve the customer experience.

The goal for the redesign was to keep the site extremely simple and accessible, so our best bet was a single page site. Some key points on this design:

  • Single Page
  • Vibrant Colors
  • Depth in objects
  • Fully designed from scratch in Photoshop
  • BTW, I designed the logo too :)

In this article we wanted to walk you trough the high level design process of the site. Here it goes:

CSS Standards & Best Practices

CSS is used to define the User Interface of a Website & to separate content from presentation.

CSS is something that is extensively used on almost every site. Lets take some time to ensure that our stylesheets are built with some good standards. The below tips will really help CSS beginners a lot in development.

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Index

This definition helps you & others understand more about the Site as well as the CSS file rather than the content in the CSS. The Index is just a formatted paragraph of text as a CSS comment.