Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten TrackPerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
I have already repeatedly written about dealing with overheating MacBooks. My not-anymore-so-current MacBook Pro (15”, late 2016) started to also throttle, and so I decided to do what’s necessary. Yet, instead of just replacing the thermal paste, I decided to try something new: Coollaboraty Liquid Metal Pads. The application is comparatively simple, once you’ve worked… read more »
…for example, because you messed around with the partitions, and end up at the grub prompt. Here’s a very convenient way on how to solve it: The Boot Repair Disk.
I’ve regularly some little Windows applications that I need to run on MacOS. Normally, I’d use a virtual machine, but there are some utilities where I’d really like to have them more immediately. Here is how I do it.
I just bought a new printer specifically searching for one that is toner refill friendly. After reading on this site that the Brother MFC-9340CDW would be a good candidate, I went for it.
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.