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I asked this question on Superuser.com after experiencing this problem. Now it’s accessible to everyone.

When something goes wrong and you run out of memory on Mac OS X, the system puts your existing applications to pause to prevent the system from becoming unstable. After taking care of the problem and freeing more memory, you might notice that the applications you had are still frozen. To unpause them, find their PID using ps and use the kill command to revive it (irony)

kill -CONT 111

Of course, 111 here is replaced with the PID you found with ps

I was used to the convenience of drop-down terminals like Visor in Mac or Yakuake in Linux and needed something similar in Windows.

It turns out, it is possible to achieve almost the same effects in Windows with the use of 2 tools.

• AutoHotkey -  lets you run scripts triggered by hotkeys anywhere in Windows
• Console – is a terminal app that lets you run a custom shell with no title bar, no borders, transparency etc.

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This bugged me today so here’s the one line solution

open .

So after applying the Perfect Visor from my previous blog post, this can be even faster to navigate to awkward Mac style directories than remembering the even more awkward Finder key combo to “Go to Folder”

open ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/

Because you can tab-complete or to go hidden folders

The Visor Terminal, one of my most used hack-features. This guide helps you put your Mac Terminal to the zenith of usability and convenience.

Visor Terminal

The drop-down Quake-style terminal window is extremely convenient to run commands without disrupting the current workflow. Unfortunately the default install is very messy. It needs an open terminal program running in the background which can’t be closed and takes up valuable Dock space. Continue reading