Over here, I described how to run a SuperDrive on a USB hub. The issue is that Apple normally disallows you to do so since it thinks the SuperDrive needs to be powered – something that a USB hub can perfectly be able to do. Before, it was sufficient...
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Potential solution for adding a Thunderbolt Display to a 2016 Apple Macbook Pro
Should Apple come up later 2016 with the new MacBook Pro, it is likely that they will not contain a Thunderbolt 1 port. The question hence arises, how you would connect an existing Thunderbolt 1 Display. Of course, Apple is also reported to come up with new (5k) displays,...
Continue reading...How to get Weather on the Mac Console
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 │...
Continue reading...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...Drilling Holes into your MacBook Air…
…seems like perhaps a weird thing to do. But it actually does make sense.
Continue reading...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…
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