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Batch Convert Images in OS X

This post is more for my benefit than others, but you may in the end find it useful anyway. I’ve recently come across a handy batch conversion technique for switching image formats in a snap;
1. Put a load of images in a folder
2. Open the Terminal
3. cd to the current directory
4. type in
mkdir jpgs; [...]

Google Maps GPS

This might come in handy to some of you, it has made life remarkably easier for me in recent months;
Steps involved;
1. navigate to a desired location in google maps
2. paste this script into the url bar + hit enter
javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
3. a window will pop up showing you the gps coordinates of that location
4. done!
Hope it helps!

you should use grep

You should use GREP.
If you haven’t heard of grep before, it’s a very fancy pattern search tool for text editors. Think of the ‘find’ function but with more advanced capabilities such as searches for whitespace characters, end of line/file or particular character patterns.
I’ve become accustomed to some of the more trivial but useful tricks [...]