Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on February 29, 2012 by CyberNet.

I spend quite a bit of time living in the terminal on my Mac, and so I was rightfully excited when I came across the free app called iTerm 2 that squashes some of the things I wanted the built-in app to offer. One of the things I really needed was a search feature to quickly find things from past commands I’ve run, and iTerm 2 does that very well.

Here is an overview of other features in iTerm 2:

• Split Panes
  Divide a tab up into multiple panes, each one of which shows a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement.
• Search
  iTerm2 comes with a robust find-on-page feature. The UI stays out of the way. All matches are immediately highlighted. Even regular expression support is offered!
• Autocomplete
  Just type the start of any word that has ever appeared in your window and then Cmd-; will pop open a window with suggestions. The word you’re looking for is usually on top of the list!
• Paste History
  Paste history lets you revisit recently copied or pasted text. You can even opt to have the history saved to disk so it will never be lost.
• Instant Replay
  Instant replay lets you travel back in time. It’s like TiVo for your terminal!
• Full Screen
  Work distraction-free with absolutely nothing on the screen but your terminal. The tab bar can be opened by holding down cmd.
• Growl Support
• Exposé Tabs
  Like OS X’s Exposé feature, iTerm2 shows all your tabs on one screen. Better yet, you can search through them all at once. Go ahead and open as many tabs as you want–you can always find what you’re looking for.

When you stack those features on top of all the configuration options it has this becomes a must-have app for any geek living in a terminal window.

iTerm 2 Homepage (Mac only; Freeware)

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After a minor curfew scuffle, it looks like Google might soon take its airplanes from their current nest at Mountain View’s Moffett field and park them up the road at Mineta San Jose International Airport. Signature Flight Support has been approved by the city’s council to build an $82 million facility on the west side of that field, where its biggest client would be Google’s flight operator, Blue City Holdings. Councilmen approved the facility by a 10-1 vote after Signature accepted a deal for immunity from some of the stricter measures of a night flying curfew, like eviction. Google’s offer to do a $45 million renovation of Hanger One at its current Moffett Field home in Mountain View was rejected by the feds, meaning the search giant’s likely to take its ball, bat and fleet of jets to San Jose sometime in 2015.

[Image credit: Mineta San Jose International Airport]

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