The personal blog of a web & mobile developing maestro, based in Manchester, UK. I love clever stuff, faraway places and things that go fast.
An easy way to resize images quickly from the command line on your Mac. Navigate to the directory where the images you wish to resize are, using cd. I use a wildcard search (*) to resize all images in a directory, but to resize individual images, just swap *.JPG with the image’s filename. Here, I’m setting the maximum dimension (width or height, depending on whether the image is landscape or portrait) to 1920, or 1080p. sips -Z 1920 *.JPG
Mac OSX is essentially a UNIX distribution, so we have all the cool under-the-bonnet tricks and tools of any operating system with a UNIX backbone. One of the utilities I’ve always found useful in a UNIX OS is the CRON tab. The post describes how you can put together some Cron-jobs on Mac OSX.
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There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the next generation of the top text editors us developers are using day to day on our OSX based machines. I share my feature wish list for my editor of choice, Coda.
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