TTI COM Visual Media

I’m not talking about cheat sheets that are going to get you busted for knocking the Aggie Honor Code. These cheat sheets will help you become more efficient and they are worth a look if you use any of these apps.

Some cheat sheets I have found helpful:

• Twitter (pdf)
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Mac keyboard shortcuts or Windows keyboard shortcuts (pdfs)
• Adobe Flash CS4 Mac keyboard shortcuts or Windows keyboard shortcuts (pdfs)
• Periodic Table of Adobe shortcuts
• FireFox shortcuts
• Wordpress Help Sheet
• Wordpress Help Sheet 2
• Wordpress Template tags
• Wordpress Template Hierarchy
• TextMate cheat sheet basic (pdf) or TextMate cheat sheet advanced (pdf)
• CSS3
• HTML5
• jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet (pdf)
• Computer hardware (this is sweet)

Summary

• The Mac OS X Finder is really kind of slow, clunky and lame.
• But like Quicksilver, once you get used to it, Terminal lets you do a lot of things smoother and faster.
• I purchased a video for our group: Meet the Command Line. Let me know if you’re interested and we’ll buy you a copy.
• Lynda.com Leopard Beyond the Basics
• A Mac User’s Guide to the Unix Command Line. Nice tutorial from the been-around-forever TidBITs site.
• An A-Z Index of the Apple OS X command line. Like a box of dynamite, fuses and a lighter, can be used for good or ill.
• PROCEED HUMBLY AND CAUTIOUSLY.
  

Background

Remember when Windows was just becoming popular? People would say things like “Do this, this and this. Don’t worry, you can’t mess it up.” Of course, that was a lie.

Now, remember when OS X came out and you heard “the Terminal lets do all these things much faster than the Finder. But since you have direct access to the OS, you can destroy things just as quickly–and with no warning.* Therefore never touch the Terminal.”? Actually, that last part was just my subconscious speaking. It was lying, too.

It’s all about the workflow

But fast matters. Over the past few months I’ve gradually been reading up on the Terminal and practicing doing little things like copying files, setting permissions, opening/editing hidden files, etc. Check the list above for some of the resources I’ve found useful.

But be cool. Like learning to ride a motorcycle, the most dangerous time is six months in when you start thinking you can do this pretty good and start getting cocky.

*Confession: I once typed del *.* at a DOS command prompt thinking I was in a subdirectory. I wasn’t. I still shudder. <shudder> See?

The only good part was that all the files in the subdirectory were deleted, as I intended. Along with the rest of the C drive, which I didn’t. <Shaking it off>

This site is for the folks in Visual Media to post stuff we find or learn that could help others in the group. It should be better than emailing or IMing stuff around, since we can tag and assign categories to what we put here and search it out later. For more details, see what who why how.

Basically, either register as a contributor to this site to contribute using the built-in forms, or just send me stuff you want to see on this site and I’ll post it. Then, bookmark or RSS the site.

Please let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,

Mark