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Welcome to iTechster.com. I shall be re-uploading all my previous video tutorials from my youtube page. Please enjoy and I hope you find them usefull!

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Terminal: Mount & UnMount Disc Images

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Terminal: Mount & UnMount Disc Images

Terminal: Mount & UnMount Disc Images In this tutorial I will how you how to mount & unmount .dmg, .iso or any supported disc image via terminal. This will even also help you unmount a disc image that may just not eject via the eject button.

Open Terminal to mount image type:

hdiutil mount filename.dmg

To unmount the disc image type:

hdiutil unmount filename.dmg

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Windows Command Line: XCOPY

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Windows Command Line: XCOPY

Windows Command Line: XCOPY In this tutorial I will show you & go over a few aspects as to how to backup your files or folders on your Windows XP system. This is by using the CMD or Command Line in Windows.

First open up the command line. go to start , then click on RUN type in cmd or command based on your system it self. Once at the command line you will need to type in the following.

xcopy C:the_location of your folder E:the location where you save it to /E /I /C

now using /E /I /C is opitional as it is not needed to backup your files but it will save you a lot of headaches in the end.

/E will backup all folders & subfolders
/I basically tell it that the directory exist while transfer is in progress
/C will continue to backup even if an error happens like say a corrupt file rather then stoping the whole backup process.

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Terminal Tip: Split & Join Files

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Terminal Tip: Split & Join Files

Terminal Tip: Split & Join Files In this tutorial I will show you a quick way to take advantage of terminal to split and join a file. Which can be used for many reasons, If you ever used WinRar on Windows and are familiar with split files then this will be some what the same as far as the concept is concerned.

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SFTP Mac Linux

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SFTP Mac Linux

SFTP Mac Linux In this tutorial I will show you how to use SFTP to connect to your Mac or Linux machine if you don’t feel comfortable with using Terminal & prefer a Gui instead.

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Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer Part 2

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Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer Part 2

Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer Part 2 In this tutorial I will show in this follow up vid to my previous tutorial on ssh file tranfers,.

open up terminal type:
ssh -l username yourIPaddress
press enter
type password.

scp -r file/location username@ipAddress:/file/location
press enter
type in password when promted.

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Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer

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Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer

Mac Linux Terminal: SSH File Transfer In this tutorial I will show you how to use Terminal to tranfer files or folders via SSH to your MAC & Linux OS. This can also be done using rsync but I will show you how it is done using the scp -r command.

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Linux Ubuntu Terminal Update Upgrade

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Linux Ubuntu Terminal: Update Upgrade

Linux Ubuntu Terminal: Update Upgrade In this short tutorial I will show you how to use Terminal in Linux Ubuntu to run your system Updates & Upgrades rather then using the graphical interface.

Open Up Terminal.

To Update type: sudo apt-get update
Hit return or enter

To Upgrade type: sudo apt-get upgrade
Hit return or enter & follow the prompts to start the upgrade process.

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QuickTime DV Video Quality Settings

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QuickTime DV Video Quality Settings

QuickTime DV Video Quality Settings Ever play a dv video on quicktime just to find its all fuzzy looking, well it’s usually due to quicktimes default settings of playing a low quality version of the video, a simple change in the preference can fix that watch my video tutorial on it.

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Terminal Tip: View HD and Folder Usage

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Terminal Tip: View HD and Folder Usage

Terminal Tip: View HD and Folder Usage In this short tutorial I will show you two ways on how to use Terminal to view all your connected Hard Drives & see how much space it taken up or free rather then doint right click/click info to view it on each drive individually.

This second part will show you how to view the space used up by a folder on your user account for example Pictures folder, Movies folder ect ect.

Part 1 command: df -h
Displays free disk space.

Part 2 command: du -sh
Information about disk usage.

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