Cheat sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets will contain most of the shortcuts needed to program faster. And it is meant for newbie users who can’t remember the shortcuts or commands.

In this article , I have collected some of the useful cheat sheets available for Mac OS. These cheat sheets will definitely help you either if you are new to Mac or if you are shifting from Windows to Mac. These cheat Sheets also covers some of the useful keyboard shortcuts and things which you will be using in Mac daily.

You may think that one cheat sheet is just enough , but I feel that some cheat sheets may miss some points so its better to look through all of them and then choose the top 2-5 you think will help you the most. After that you can Print them out and hang them on the wall around your desk for quick reference.

My Mac cheat Sheet

Whether your Mac asks you for certain information or you’re seeking help from Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), there may come a time when you need to have access to your serial number, hardware configuration, passwords, email server or internet access information. And then you discover that you’ve either forgotten or misplaced this information. If you forget it, don’t worry, pull out your Mac Cheat Sheet instead.

Mac 101 – beginner’s guide

If you’re new to computers or simply need a refresher course on how to get the most out of your Mac, then Mac 101 cheat sheet is for you.

Macs All-in-One For Dummies

Macs come in all shapes and sizes, but you turn all of them on and off, and do things with the keyboard and mouse (or trackpad, if yours is a MacBook) the same way. Macintosh OS X Snow Leopard, Apple’s latest version of the Mac operating system, has all the familiar boxes, windows, and mouse pointers as its predecessors. This Cheat Sheet of timesaving keyboard shortcuts, mouse actions, Mac-related Web sites, and definitions can help you get the most from your Mac right away.

Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac

Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette? We have, and it takes time and is an effort. So we put together a series of help sheets that reference all of the characters that aren’t listed on your keyboard, along with their shortcut keys to make your life easier.

Switch 101 – Apple Mac cheat sheet

If you’re a PC user who has just switched to the Mac and want to find out how to adapt your old working habits to the Mac OS, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you want to learn how to get around and access everything on your Mac; find out how to move your old PC files to the Mac OS environment; figure out how to connect your printer, iPod, digital camera, or other device; learn how to do those tasks you did on a PC on a Mac; learn how to use the software that came with your Mac; or even find out what to do when things don’t go as planned; Switch 101 has got all the answers.

Leopard Cheat Sheet

Mac OS X keyboard Cheat Sheet

My First Mac guide

Below you’ll find the My First Mac guide on how to use your new Mac when all you know is Windows. Of course this topic can go deep and take months or even years of training, so we will stick to the top dozen or so issues that new Mac users run into that makes them want to throw their Mac through the window.

Mac OS X cheat sheet

Avid Support – Mac cheat Sheet

It is intended to help properly configure and troubleshoot Mac editing systems – both PowerPC and Intel based. Included are some tips and tricks to maximize performance and stability of your system. Follow the tips in the document and the initial installation and configuration will be very simple.

MAC OS cheat sheet

Mac OS X Transition Cheat Sheet

MS EXCEL MAC CHEAT SHEET

DREAMWEAVER MAC CHEAT SHEET

Mac OS Quick Reference, Apple Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X Mail email settings Cheat Sheet

You can print (or copy and paste to a text document) and fill out the following “cheat sheet” to record your email
provider’s settings. This sheet can make it easier for you to configure Mail in Mac OS X, or if you contact your
provider.

I hope that this list of Cheat sheets will definitely help you in handling Mac. If you have came across any good cheat sheet for Mac then do let me know.

Portable applications have changed the way of accessing software and other favorite applications. Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. And you can use them on any Windows computer all without leaving any personal data behind. Portable applications provides the platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use.

In this post , I have collected some of the useful Portable applications for OS X. I hope , this applications will definitely help you.

Portable Firefox OS X

Here is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 57 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies, and saved passwords with you.

OpenOffice – Complete Office suite

OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

Portable Thunderbird OS X

It requires minimum 60 MB of free space and you can use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your email, address book and account settings with you.

Portable Adium

Portable Adium is the multi-protocol Adium instant messaging client that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more, packaged as portable application. It has 65 MB of free space on your USB drive and you can use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your contact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.

Safari – Keep all your bookmarks and preferences

It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.

Portable Abiword OS X

Portable AbiWord OS X is the award winning AbiWord small, fast, lots of new feature and cross platform word processor packaged as portable application so you can take your profile, dictionary, math, Plug-ins and templates with you.

Portable Nvu OS X

Nvu is a free, open source software program that allows you to build websites and web pages using a simple WYSIWYG editor. Nvu makes creating web pages as easy as using a word processor and rivals such programs as Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Microsoft’s Expression Web, only for free! With Nvu’s built-in site manager, connecting to your website and making changes is a snap.

Portable Sunbird OS X

Portable Sunbird OS X is the Sunbird Project cross platform standalone calendar and task manager application packaged as portable application so you can take your calendar and task list with you.

Mail Keep all your mail and preferences

Mail, Mac OS X’s built in email application, offers an elegant user interface that makes it easy to manage all of your email from a single, ad-free inbox, even when you’re not connected to the Internet. To see Mail in action, click here to watch Mail Basics.

Portable Cyberduck

Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look. To edit files, a seamless integration with several external editors makes it easy to change content quickly.

Portable Check Off

Check Off is a quick to-do list that sits in your Mac’s menu bar. Simply click the check mark and your personal to-do list will drop down.Check Off is just a mouse click away no matter where you are on your Mac. Whether you are making a grocery list, tracking your school assignments by class or just jotting down what you need to do for the day, Check Off can adapt to your workflow.

Portable Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

Portable Newspeak

Portable Newspeak is Newspeak Cocoa IRC client for Mac OS X packaged as portable application so you can take your IRC servers, channels list and saved transcript with you.

Inkscape – Scalable Vector Graphics editor

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

VLC – Video stream and multimedia player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Audacity – Audio editor

Audacity can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.

RSSOwl – RSS, RDF, Atom newsreader

RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.

X-Chat Aqua – IRC client

X-Chat Aqua is X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X. X-Chat Aqua uses the irc engine from X-Chat, and is designed to look and feel like the GTK+ front end.

iCal – Keep all your events

Portable iCal.app is a shell script that open local copy of iCal™ using preferences stored in its application bundle.

Camino – Web browser optimized for Mac

Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.

Vienna – RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac

Vienna is full of powerful features that help you make sense of the flood of information that is distributed via RSS/Atom.

Celtx – Screenwriting & production breakdown

Celtx is the screenwriting & production breakdown writing tool packaged as portable application so you can take your preferences with you.

Feed

Portable Feed is the Feed RSS, Atom newsreader packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking all your favorite news feeds with you.

PDFtoHTML

PDFtoHTML 0.1b attracts users’ attention with the ability of converting files from the Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file format properly.

Oxalyn Window Divider

Oxalyn Window Divider is a window “splitter” control for REALbasic. Very feature-rich and easy to use – drop right into your project for instant usage. 100% RB code, no Declares or plugins, so its portable! OS X and OS 9 tested, Windows assumed to work.

I hope that you will love this collection of Portable MAC software. If you know any other portable MAC applications available then let me know via comments.

Although there are several servers available on different operating system platforms like windows, unix , etc. I feel that Linux Servers are more secure when compared to other competitors.There are several reasons why Linux servers are more secure than those running solely off of Windows. The importance behind this extra security is to help prevent hackers from entering the server and changing files and putting viruses and robot programs to work over the servers. If they were able to get in through brute force or simple hacking, the results could be devastating and potentially harmful to your websites as well as any of the visitors that make their way to your websites.

Here are 6 reasons why I feel that Linux servers are more secure:

Several Levels of Security with Linux Servers

Linux based servers are not much different in terms of capabilities with what the server can provide in terms of processing the websites and other information stored on the server. The big difference between Linux servers and other options is the fact that there are many more layers of security that are possible with Linux based server software. There are other security layers possible with third party software mechanisms available as well.

You Can Limit Access to the Root of the Server

You can limit Root access as well as disable Root SSH Logins that make it possible for hackers to gain access to your valuable files and other resources on the server. You can even make it so only a few users have access to administrative tools by setting special user attributes while others are still restricted in the event that a hacker got a hold of another user account which could attempt to use the switch command to the Root of the server.

Software Options for Linux Servers Are Less Vulnerable

Most of the software that is developed for Linux servers is designed to have the highest levels of security to prevent hackers and virus attacks. The vulnerability of the software is entirely up to how long a hacker is willing to attempt to hack each individual software component of the servers that you are using. This limits the access to the important sections of your Linux servers and provides even more security.

Updates to Linux Server Software are More Frequent

The constant necessity of security with Linux servers prompts for more frequent software updates. These updates remove vulnerabilities as well as increases security all around. When used in conjunction on servers, the security of the server is increased exponentially. It simply becomes more secure every month providing that the owner of the server performs the updates to the software options when they become available for use.

No Executable and registry

Like windows linux doesn’t support .exe files. Most of the viruses in windows are being spread with .exe files what happens you just double click on .exe file and virus,trojan or malware easily integrate itself with windows. And similarly Registry is another place where viruses put their information. Even if you delete the file, It rewrites its information from registry and it is also too difficult to find where virus hides its information in registry.Linux uses configuration files rather than registry so another big hole for viruses is closed and as i mentioned in point 1 that linux doesn’t allow any normal user to edit system files.

FTP Access Is Restricted and Easy Backups are Possible

You can restrict access to the FTP for the Linux server to allow for different levels of access to all of the allowed accounts. This access can also be limited to only viewing and downloading content from the server. You can also make quick backups of all important data with a Linux server which can be restored in the event that the server is changed during an attack. Backing up couldn’t be easier on Linux, cron jobs make backups pretty painless and the options are really unlimited for choosing the best way to back up your server.

Conclusion

Being able to choose between different distros on Linux creates limitless possibilities. Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and all of the others provide different features for server admins to choose from. The ability to run the distribution that best serves your application, company, or web site really allows Linux to be the best all around option for a server admin. Windows is limited to Windows Server, which provides great functionality, but the depth that Linux can provide cannot be easily matched. Let alone the performance.
Having these options available as a server admin may be confusing as a new comer, but as you start learning about the features and unique qualities of each distribution, you will be able to find a favorite that suites you and really get the most out of your server by utilizing every aspect of the hardware and software working efficiently together. The most fun part is sometimes just downloading 10-20 different .iso’s of the new linux distributions and installing them on different partitions or running them on LiveCD or USB stick and playing with the new features and environments each of them are working on.
Go out there and learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each Linux distro and find the one that best suites you and learn it inside and out. Doing so will give you the best experience and most secure server you could ask for.

Most of you think that Microsoft windows and Mac OS are the only two famous operating systems. But now Ubuntu a linux based operating system is also getting popular. I recently saw Ubuntu in one of my friends PC and I was amazed to see its performance. Though it’s difficult a bit , but once you learn it will be easy. Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’, As the name signifies , Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. That is Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees extra. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing. So according to me instead of using a pirated OS and getting got by FBI , you can go for Ubuntu Operating system which is absolutely free of charge.

Actually Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Installing Ubuntu theme

Since most may not know how to install custom themes in ubuntu , here is a quick guide for all those newbies.
Once you have finished downloading the theme , Do the following steps.

• system > preferences > appearance
• click instal and browse your theme (It should be a tar.gz file)
• click open and then click apply new theme.

30+ Stunning Linux Desktop Themes

Just like Microsoft windows and Mac OS , Ubuntu too has some cool default desktop themes. Since Ubuntu is using the Gnome desktop environment it is possible to change the theme to any other Gnome theme. You can even use this Gnome Themes to any of the linux based operating systems as well.

You can use these Gnome themes in any Linux based Operating Systems like Ubuntu , Debian , etc

Moomex Ultimatum Gnome Desktop theme

Monochrome Gnome Ubuntu Desktop theme

Darker Ice Murrina Ubuntu Desktop theme

Hardy Linux Theme

Raptor Ubuntu Desktop theme

Aurora Gnome Desktop theme

Murrina Triomphe

BurntOrangeIce Gnome Desktop theme

Hardy Theme For Gnome Desktops Customization

Blue Joy Gnome Desktop theme

BlueSpace Gnome Desktop theme

Willkarmic Linux Gnome Desktop Theme

Dark Ice Gnome Desktop theme

Willibox Gnome Desktop theme

ArezzoM Linux Theme

Soffice Gnome Desktop theme

Humanity Gnome Desktop theme

Bluelooks Gnome Desktop theme

Silent Night Gnome Desktop theme

Night impression Gnome Desktop theme

MacOS-X Aqua Gnome Desktop theme

Vistabut Gnome Desktop theme

Aero-clone Gnome Desktop theme

Leopard style Gnome Desktop theme

Elegant Brit style Gnome Desktop theme

OrangeLiNstaBlackPlastic Gnome Desktop theme

Ubuntu Dust Gnome Desktop theme

Dr’s AquaVista Gnome Desktop theme

Elegance Gnome ubuntu Desktop theme

imetal Gnome ubuntu Desktop theme

Murrina Aero Gnome ubuntu Desktop theme

hope you like my collection of gnome desktop themes for Ubuntu. If you know anyother good Ubuntu themes then do let me know , i will add them to this list. See you soon with a new post