Here is a simple way to get the weather from the console. $ weather Pieniezno Weather for City: Pieniezno, Poland _`/””.-. Moderate or heavy rain shower ,\_( ). 20 °C /(___(__) ↑ 7 km/h ‚‘‚‘‚‘‚‘ 7 km ‚’‚’‚’‚’ 2.7 mm ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 29. Jul ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │...
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How to stop Safari downloading .pdf as .pdf.lspdf
There may be an issue that arises, apparently rarely, if you have once installed the Livescribe Echo application. Safari, when downloading a .pdf, will appear to keep adding a second extension, .lspdf, to the file name. Searching on Google doesn’t really return anything useful, and removing com.apple.Safari.plist etc. doesn’t...
Continue reading...Update Airport Firmware by running Airport Utility 6.5.1 on El Capitan
I just came across an interesting situation where the Airport Utility showed a red alert with a „1“ in it, indicating some sort of message or update, but not detailing what it was about – and actually no apparent possibility to do anything about it: ¡ A quick search...
Continue reading...Missing sidebar Icons in Finder
I again had the problem that some sidebar icons were missing in Finder. Seems like that either I have to restore ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist from a backup, and re-login, or just re-login.
Continue reading...How to add Files from Finder to Evernote and keep a permanent relation
As a follow-up to my post on how to automatically add files to Evernote, keeping persistent links, here is a slightly reworded automator workflow that I use to do the same thing: Mark one or multiple files in Finder and then Hit Cmd-E to have them added to Evernote’s...
Continue reading...How to create Persistent File Links from Evernote to the Filesystem
So I’m playing around with Evernote and essentially don’t want to use Evernote as my “store it all” kind of document repository. DevonThink didn’t work out that well after all, and using Evernote that way seems to be equally inadequate. At the end of the day, I have a...
Continue reading...How to fix a Maxi-Cosi FamilyFix Base
I’ve had a little issue with our MaxiCosi FamilyFix Base not releasing the child seat anymore. Turns out, this is a common problem. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any description on how to really solve it, so here is one.
Continue reading...Latest Pornographic Addition…
So here it is, the added 150 TB of backup space that just came in.
Continue reading...Moving Virtual Boxes in Ubuntu
This is perhaps the 100 millionth post on the topic, yet all I could find was how to move the virtual box files through vboxmanage, which appears to imply having to remove snapshots. Here is a very easy different process that will just repoint to where the machine’s folder...
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