Change Apple ID for iCloud service

Change Apple ID for iCloud Service – Released Today

Apple has officially made iCloud service available to all iPhone/Mac/Winodws 7 users. iCloud can work on Windows 7 as well if you install iCloud on Windows. Before running iCloud on Mac OSX, first you have to do is change apple ID for iCloud service via AppleID control Panel. Why do I need to change? It’s because iCloud service ID required an email address. I believe it’s more structured instead of what Apple stated on the website, easier to remember.

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OS X Lion Mouse Reverse Scroll

OS X Lion Mouse Reverse Scroll, Something Wrong?

Do you have the same feeling like us? Feeling annoy when did the first scrolling in OS X Lion? OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll annoy and confuse us as well, we thought that it’s scrolling bugs or error at first. After searching around the forums, we finally understand OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll is the new gesture for mouse scrolling. Continue Reading >>

OS X Lion Macports Install

OS X Lion Macports Install How-to

OS X Lion Macports install is not that difficult at all. By installing Macports, you can enjoy more than 10,000 packages such as apache, php, mysql, postgresql, wireshark, nmap and many more cool tools. For a newbie, it might be complicated on the installation, you can follow our step by step installation guide below to install have OS X Lion Macports install. Continue Reading >>

Switch Tabs In Firefox

Switch Tabs in Firefox with Shortcut Key

Switch tabs in firefox by mouse click sometime is troublesome, especially when come to data entry and you need to quickly switch tabs in firefox browser. If you are heavy tabs user like me; When I said heavy tabs user, it means you have at least 20 tabs opened at one time, then switch tab in firefox by shortcut key will be extremely useful.

The shortcut key to switch tabs in firefox are different in various platform, follow instruction below to learn more about switching tabs in firefox with Window, Linux and Apple Mac.

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Firefox Close Tab Shortcut

Firefox Close Tab By Shortcut Key

Firefox close tab shortcut key is useful when you are a keyboard short cut user. With firefox close tab shortcut key, you can close any of your current browsing tab immediately, just by triggering firefox close tab short cut key.

What is Firefox Close Tab Shortcut Key

Firefox runs in several platforms, which are Windows, Mac and Linux. But no worry, firefox close tab shortcut key is almost the same on all the platforms.

Below is the firefox close tab shortcut key in different platforms.

Microsoft Windows 7/Windows XP: Ctrl + w
Apple Mac OS X Leopoard/Snow Leopard: Apple Command + w
Linux Fedora/Ubuntu/CentOS: Ctrl + w

Beside Firefox Close Tab Shortcut…

There are many more short cut keys on Mozilla Firefox, you can refer to official Firefox documentation for more information

How To Check CPU Information in Linux

How to find out CPU information in Linux distro such as CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora?

In Linux box, the CPU info can be easily retrieved via reading /proc/cpuinfo. The output will provide you CPU information such as

• Total CPUs
• Vendor ID
• Model Name
• MHz of the CPU
• Cache


# less /proc/cpuinfo


The sample output of 2 CPUs


processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2992.684
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5985.36
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2992.684
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 5984.28
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:


How to Change MySQL Data Directory in Linux Centos

In order to enhance MySQL Performance, it’s always better to store MySQL DB files in a separate hard disk partition. In Linux CentOS, default data file is store in /var/lib/mysql, you can change the data store in /etc/my.cnf file.

Change the line below to your database directory

[mysqld]
datadir=/database/mysql
socket=/database/mysql/mysql.sock

After that restart mysql service

# /etc/init.d/mysqld restart

Enhance VIM Editor Features in Centos

By default, I configured CentOS at minimal installation, I was having problem to locate vimrc file for VIM Editor, and just found out there is a yum package called yum-enhanced which will give you more features in VIM Editor.

Install vim-enhanced via yum install

# yum install vim-enhanced

After installation, you will see default vimrc file at /etc/vimrc and more example rc files can be found at /usr/share/vim/vim70/

Now… I can have my visual mode working!

How to Delete or Remove Yum’s Cached Mirror Database

What can you do it’s extremely when performing yum update? Try remove the cached mirror database and the system will look for faster mirror again.

# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt

Run yum command again and it will pick up the fastest mirror again.

How to Insert New line in Cell and Edit Cell with Microsoft Excel in Apple Mac OSX

I like using Wrap text in Excel, reason because it looks organize; also using short cut key for quick access on editing.

It’s new to me when come to using Excel in Apple Mac OSX, it’s different from Windows environment. Here is the short cut key for edit cell and insert newline in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel in Apple Mac OSX

Edit Cell = Ctrl + u
Insert new line = Apple + Option + Enter key