5 Mac Terminal tips you&ll want to use

AppleTerminal application is supremely powerful on your Mac, and while you should be wary when using it, you can benefit from some super-useful Mac tricks if you do.

What is Terminal

The Terminal application can be understood as a text-based user interface with which to control your Mac using command line tools. These are very powerful, and they enable you to change lots of the ways your Mac usually behaves.

Be warned

Terminal is unforgiving. You don&t need to fear it, but you should be very, very careful to use precisely the right code when entering instructions for your Mac — particularly if using any command including the word "sudo".

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IDG Contributor Network: Why Verizon is funding a wireless competitor, Visible

The wireless industry has grown and changed so much over the last few decades. In the last few years, major wireless brands AT-T Mobility, T-Mobile and Sprint have introduced or acquired several other brands like Cricket, MetroPCS, Boost, Virgin Mobile and more. They have focused on winning and growing in different slices of the wireless pie, and itworking.

Verizon and Verizon Wireless has been quiet in this space. They tend to take a different route. They are the highest priced wireless service and it looked like things would remain that way. However, now they are doing a deal with Visible that changes all that.

I tend to worry about companies when they let the change wave go on without them. I don&t want the growth wave to pass them by and leave them behind like it did with companies like Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola. Leaders who missed the next change wave and now are struggling.

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Overstock.com puts a lot of stock in blockchain

More than four years ago, Overstock.com became the first major retailer to accept bitcoin as a form of payment for its goods. Today, it accepts more than 40 versions of the digital currency for online purchases.

While bitcoin may have first caught the online retailer's eye, it's the technology behind the digital tokens & blockchain & that has really captured Overstock.com's investment wallet.

[ Further reading: What is blockchain The most disruptive tech in decades ]

About the same time Overstock.com was embracing bitcoin for payments, it put a venture capital stake in blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) through Medici Ventures, its Salt Lake City-based subsidiary created for just that purpose.

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Win10 version 1803 incompatible with Toshiba solid state drives, too

It now appears as if Microsoft didn&t test the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803,with its own Surface Pro (2017) laptops, with any machines that use Intel SSD 600p or SSD Pro 6000p drives, or with any machines that contain Toshiba XG4, XG5, or BG3 series solid state drives (SSDs).

You can draw your own conclusions about the advisability of installing Windows 10 1803.

[ Further reading: How to handle Windows 10 updates ]

Late last week, &Microsoft Agent& Lonnie_L posted on theMicrosoft Answers Forum:

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