Arduino UNO Clone Serial Port CH340/CH341 Drivers for Mac OS X

Recently I tried connecting my newly purchased clone version of the Arduino UNO with the MacBook OS X Yosemite. It turns outs that, nothing gonna detect my serial port. This is because most of the clone versions are using a different chip for USB-to-Serial communication namely CH340/CH341 instead of...

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apt-get, yum install on Mac OS X : HomeBrew

This is a short blog entry on how you can invoke the the same semantic functionality you used to have in ubuntu, cent os...etc. There's a exciting project called "Homebrew" that will provide the "missing package manager for Mac OS X". You can download homebrew from this link. Once successfully...

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Customizing the Finder in MAC OS X (Making Finder Suck Less!)

Probably MAC OS X, Finder App is one of most complained App and has always given undesirable behaviors(at least for me). There are some quick workarounds that can make your favourite Finder Application less suck. Hope this might be more helpful for the people migrating from Windows to MAC...

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Mac OS X Finder and Terminal Shortcuts

These are some of simple tricks that came across when I was working with Mac OS X - Yosemite. Most of them will work with older versions such as Mavericks and Mountain Lion. How do you navigate to the '/usr/local' from the `Finder` program? Open current path of the terminal in Finder? Open...

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How to fix Java Apps Getting Blurred on Retina Displays MAC OS X

Have you experienced this too???. My MacBook was shipped with JDK 1.6.0. So I installed JDK 1.7u07. Soon after I realized that all java based applications(or running on the newer JVM) are getting blurred. Look closer on these two images; `Android Studio` on JDK 1.7u07; `Android Studio` on JDK1.7u40; It...

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Syntax Highlighting bash terminal and vim in Mac OS X

So far I was not a huge Apple fan. However, recently I received a MacBook Pro(Amazing Huh!). In Mac OS X; your default terminal shell is bash. But the Terminal itself put a burden on me; Unlike it is in Ubuntu or Cent OS; the folders and files names...etc are not color coded ending up frustrating.  Here...

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