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Getting A Handle On Your iPhone Data (A Mini-Tales From The Command Line Story)

The Apple Blog - Aug 20, 2008

The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little time to deal with anything but security updates to software (hence, no software update news). This week, however, my iPhone needed some serious care and feeding …

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Tales From The Command Line: What’s Going On? (lsof)

The Apple Blog - Aug 1, 2008

As mentioned in the previous installment, there is a very useful command buried deep within the confines of your OS X terminal. This command - lsof (LiSt Open Files) - is like the Swiss Army knife of utilities, proving …

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Tales From The Command Line: Where Has My Bandwidth Gone? (iftop & SurplusMeter)

The Apple Blog - Jul 3, 2008

I believe I can safely say that the primary objective for users running OS X is to connect to the Internet to read mail, check out web sites, chat with friends, download new apps or grab/share multi-media content, etc …

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