So it has been quite a while since I have published the BabyPingViewer app on the app store. The reception was great, yet there is one recurring question that people raise: Since BabyPing has modified their way to create a password for the admin user, now depending on the...
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Add Pinch-In and Pinch-Out (Icon Zoom) back into Apple’s Finder
Ok, this has annoyed many people out there, including me: Apple found it clever to remove the pinch gesture on the icon view of the Finder window. For what ever reason, but it was annoying me enough to find a solution.
Continue reading...Speed Improvement with Yosemite
I’ve recently upgraded to MacOS 10.10, a.k.a. Yosemite. Here’s a measurement of my wired throughput to my server. Before, I got a maximum of about 75 MB/sec on large files. This is a nice improvement…
Continue reading...Lync cycles login on Yosemite (fixed)
When connecting with Lync on Yosemite, and your primary system language is not English (how could that potentially be…), Lync up to 14.0.9 will cycle the login process. Microsoft has acknowledge the problem and provided for a fix.
Continue reading...Thermal Problem with MacBook Air 2013
Same procedure as last year, Ms Sophie? I’ve had another round of checking Apple’s Thermal Paste, this time on two MacBook Air’s I’ve bought about a year ago. And, just like before, same problem.
Continue reading...So that’s how it looks if you upgrade your WIFI…
Three Nighthawk X6‘s arrived. Bricked one hacking it misconfiguring DD-WRT; serial cable debricks it. Here’s some throughput that brings it to precisely half my wired network connection (measured OTA from my 2013 Macbook Air to my server which is wired using Gigabit LAN / Cat7 to the routers, measured...
Continue reading...Speed Reading
I’ve been doing some investigation on speed reading, here’s there result.
Continue reading...Variations on “the nerdiest Video ever”
Have shown this to my little daughter. She really likes string theory, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice…
Continue reading...Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett for Kids
Yesterday’s post regarding the adoption of Perl and RegEx in early childhood has raised some questions as per to which degree we should expose our kids to potentially questionable content.
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