Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten TrackPerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
The new dark mode introduced with Mojave has some issues with Mails where the author has used text highlighting (like, putting a yellow background behind a black text): This is going to be white on yellow in dark mode, and hence hardly readable. Worse even, there appears to be a trend where some people send… read more »
Over the last couple of days, I’ve had issues with Spotlight after I moved on to Mojave. The indexing never appeared to go past a certain point.
The Crash Reporter can consume quite some system resources if one process is out of bounds. Here is how you can disable it.
Every now and then I get this error when working with Seafile: “there is a conflict with an existing library.” And just today I found out that I had found a solution three years ago, and since then forgotten about it. So here’s again, for the record, what I did.
After upgrading to Mojave, applications like Skype or Skype for Business stopped receiving audio and camera input. On Mojave, applications are supposed to be triggering an alert asking for permissions to access those resources, but after upgrading to Mojave, these applications never did that. Long story short: I removed rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC logged out… read more »
I also created a script that takes the currently selected BusyContacts contact and creates a task in OmniFocus.
I’ve created a little AppleScript that copies the mail contents and attachments into an OmniFocus task. It also creates a back-link into the OF task, and a forward link as a MailTags note.
So apparently, spiegel.de now hides itself behind mostly nagging pay walls. They even got coverage from El Fefe, and of course they are not only asking you to pay for “plus” articles, which I happily do, they also throw ad block nag screens in their reader’s way. Recently, a German court has decided that ad… read more »
On our way back from Poland to Croatia, we found this nice place to stay overnight: http://www.albafiorita.com/en/ I am going to post a drone video later, when I’ve sufficient network connectivity. This is an agroturismo, very nicely located between Venice and Trieste. Last time we drove down to Croatia, we made the big… read more »
Now this is a very annoying behavior I’ve observed with Safari on Mac and accessing a variety of SAML2 protected sites – while other browsers such as Chrome don’t appear to have that problem. The authentication process may just hang, or also fail with an uninformative cookie error. Ultimately, what helps is this: Search Keychain… read more »