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...
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BusyContacts to OmniFocus – AppleScript
I also created a script that takes the currently selected BusyContacts contact and creates a task in OmniFocus.
Continue reading...Mail to OmniFocus – AppleScript
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.
Continue reading...Fix for Safari on Mac: Client Certificate no longer accepted, or slow authentication…
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,...
Continue reading...Make Skim Great Again
Yesterday, I had created a pretty useful workaround for the still fucked up PDFKit in Sierra, which prevents Skim from running. Motivated by Andrea Alberti, I’ve today created a much better version which can be applied in one minute, with one single command, and does not require to keep...
Continue reading...Fix fontd being a CPU hog on MacOS
I just saw that there was a runaway fontd process. Fixed it like so: sudo atsutil databases -remove; atsutil server -shutdown Most importantly, this has drastically brought down CPU usage overall. Apparently, it impacts a whole lot of applications.
Continue reading...Alternative Scenarios to the new MacBook Pro
I think there’s been enough rant about the new MBP. For me personally, I’ve been waiting patiently, and am always open to be convinced. I’m not this time, and have hence explored, and implemented, some alternatives. They may not be useful for you, but if you use a 2013 MacBook Air,...
Continue reading...How to stop iTunes from reverting to the local disk
I don’t have enough disk space on my MacBook Air. So specifically I don’t want iTunes to occupy lots of it. I’ve my iTunes library on an external disk, which is fine until I happen to start iTunes without having that disk attached. In that case, iTunes will silently...
Continue reading...Update for the PDFKit Problems (and some other workflow)
While this thing was seriously not working, I have actually found out that I’m going to prefer non-Skim annotations now.
Continue reading...How to workaround the fucked up PDFKit in Sierra
OK, so it appears that Apple this time really blew it with PDFKit. In Sierra, it appears to be seriously broken, and the most important outcome of that is that Skim no longer appears to work.
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