On a Mac:

• Apple Menu
• System Preferences
• Date & Time
• Timezone Tab

On an iPhone

• Settings
• Mail, Contacts, Calendars
• Time Zone Support

This solution was eventually found on the Apple Support Forum

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• Adium - General purpose chat client. Supports multiple protocols
• Deep Vacuum - Internet archiver and offline browser
• Firefox - The worlds best web browser
• Fugu - SFTP client
• EZ Money - Simple easy to use financial manager
• Disk Inventory - Graphical disk usage chart similar to kdirstat in Linux
• Handbrake - DVD Backup utility
• MacPorts - Package manager for installing Linux programs in OS X
• Perian - Extra video codecs for QuickTime
• Flip4Mac - WMV codec for QuickTime
• Transmission - Bittorrent client
• One Button FTP - FTP client
• Teleport - Software KVM for OS X
• TextMate - Text editor

Widgets

• Gas - Show the cheapest local gas price
• iStat Pro - Detailed system statistics
• WidgetTerm - Terminal

Screensavers

• RedPill - the Matrix
• Plasma Tunnel - Flying through a plasma tunnel. Great graphics

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2 = write
3 = execute write
4 = read
5 = read execute  4 + 1
6 = read write    4 + 2
7 = read write execute 4 + 2 + 1

When Apple first released the iPhone I wanted one. I started reading reviews and decided that it was not yet the time so I just kept saving up money and looking at my options. There were a couple Linux PDA phones that looked good to me. I could never quite find one that just stuck in my brain though. Around the beginning of January I pulled into Starbucks on my work lunch break and a couple friends where there hanging out with a group of their friends. One of them has an iPhone. He let me mess around with it a little bit and the desire for an iPhone started coming back. I went back to work and kept working *cough (looked at iPhone stuff)* very diligently. I gathered a bunch of info about the changes and such and they excited me. I check in my budget and I did infact have enough to get an iPhone. So I called up the local wireless shop and they ordered one for me. I got the 16 gigabyte version because a friend heckled me that 8 gigabytes was too small. That is still a lot of storage space but I went with the 16. So far I am loving it. Instead of carrying around a PDA, digicam, and a phone I now only have to carry my iPhone. I have all my email accounts on it and am instantly alerted anywhere I am that I received an email, and I can read it. Heck, I hardly ever open the email program on my computer anymore now. All the contacts on my Mac synced to the iPhone without a hitch. So did my calendar events. It is just so cool. I do have a bit of music on it too, but I rarely listen to it. I am usually at work or at home with good speakers hooked up to the computer so there is no need. It comes in handy when I am at the gym and my workout partner does now come, however I feel a little strange with wires coming out of my ears excluding the entire world. I scoffed at watching movies on the tiny screen, but just for kicks I downloaded iSquint and put a couple movies on there. The quality is pretty good. About the only time I could see watching a movie on a screen that small is if I am on a long trip where I am not driving and my Macbook Pro is not available to me(a sad day indeed), but it is cool to keep a couple movies on there for effect . The camera is not that great, kinda gotta figure that from a 2 mega pix camera on a phone, but it gets the job done. If I need a quick shot of something, or got into an accident I would have photo evidence. People say SMS(texting) is really bad on the iPhone. I rather like it myself. Sure I had my v551 keypad memorized and could type almost as fast on it without looking as on a regular keyboard and that feel is no longer available, but the keyboard is on the screen which makes things faster, and Apple built a great autocorrect that is almost always right. My only gripe with SMS is that I cannot text multiple people at one time. I like that ability to send out one message to all my friends at once about an event. A small drawback, however, for the rest of the capabilities and functionality I get from the phone. There is a lot of criticism coming at my from both sides, people who hate the iPhone and people who love it. I for one love the iPhone and think it was a great purchase. I recommend you consider it during your next phone purchase.

First off I am a linux guy. A hardcore linux guy in fact. I refuse to run Windows on any of my computer systems. I do run Windows inside of VmWare so I can test my development on multiple operating systems, but it is almost never on.

I have loved Macs for a long time, however because I am such a linux guy I could not resolve myself using OSX because many, no make that most, of the major features in linux that I use cannot be found in OSX. With the release of the newest Mac OS Leopard I have finally been able to make the jump. With each new OS it gets closer and closer to linux. Now Leopard has 'Spaces' which is a virtual desktop system. That was one of the main features that I could not live without. Spaces works great, I have actually and pleasantly been surprised with how nice Spaces works. Also Fink has become a more mature product that allows me to very easily to install any of the linux programs that I do not find a Mac equivalent for.

So far every piece of hardware I have plugged into the Mac has 'just worked'. Even my cellphone! I was curious to see what would happen so I turned on the bluetooth and lo and behold a window pops up asking if I want to sync the cellphone with my Mac. I now have all the contacts from my cell on my Mac, and all the contacts on my Mac on my cell. It also synced all of my calendar items which delighted me as I put items in my cell calendar all the time and did not want to constantly have to check the phone against the Mac and vice versa.

Being a web developer I always run a full server so I can develop locally quickly and easily. Open up System Preference and with one click Apache is up and running. Works great too.

If you want my honest opinion Apple has the best hardware and always has. If you are willing to invest a couple more bucks than a pc and learn a new operating system I think you will soon love it like I do. OSX is super easy, a bit disconcerting at first but once you really start using it it comes almost naturally. And as with linux OSX has an almost godlike immunity to viruses and spyware just because of the design of the system itself. I am sure that as Macs become more popular more viruses will be written for them, but the closer Mac comes to linux the harder and harder it will get for viruses to be written to it.

Go get a Mac, you'll love it!

For this example I used bash on Debian 3.1. I had a directory full of JPEG images that had an uppercase extension of JPG. Uppercase extensions are a pet peeve of mine. Not sure why, but I cannot stand them. I think maybe because I am a web developer so I try to keep everything lowercase for ease of use. Anywho...I had a directory full of files with the uppercase JPG extension and I wanted them all converted to lowercase jpg. Here is the code I used.

for file in * ; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed s/JPG/jpg/g` ; done

Any file having JPG in it will have JPG converted to jpg. Simple, quick, done. If you wish to convert something else simply change s/JPG/jpg/g to something else. For example, changing all doc extensions to txt should work like so:

for file in * ; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed s/doc/txt/g` ; done

I hope that helps someone out there. I found it useful enough to share with ya'll!