Apple Mail seems to use its own location for downloading attachments that you double-click on. On my machine, this was in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail\ Downloads I wanted those to go into ~/Downloads And since Apple as a company keeps thinking about even the illiterate, it hides the Library folder, and even...
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Solution to Mountain Lion Battery Life Problem
Your Mileage May Vary. But on my machine (TM), the battery life substantially dropped on my 2010 MBP after installation of ML. By substantially I mean really really badly. From 4 hours previously to down to about 1.5 hours. Surfing around about that problem, I did find the programm...
Continue reading...Removing Fan Noise and Heat Problems with MacBook Pro
I’ve had increasing problems with two MacBook Pro, one I5, one I7, both from 2010. Reading about badly applied thermal paste on the net, I decided to give that a try. Using this excellent walkthrough from iFixit.com, I was able to eliminate the problems entirely. Monitoring the I7, I...
Continue reading...A Case for an SSD
I’ve just had another occasion to compare directly two pretty similar machines: A recent off-the-shelf MacBook Pro (I5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA) with my normal working MacBook Pro (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD). Falling back to the slower machine, and not using all the RAM...
Continue reading...New OCR Wrapper published on Sourceforge
I’ve shared a small project I’ve recently written on sourceforge: pdfocrwrapper.sourceforge.net This tool serves as a wrapper around the excellent ABBYY OCR engine which also exists as a Linux variant. The wrapper recursively iterates a directory structure and submits all PDF that it finds (and that it has not...
Continue reading...Reuse another computer as a secondary display on your MacBook
I just came across an immensely useful piece of software: ScreenRecycler (www.screenrecycler.com). It is basically a display driver mapping to a VNC server that allows your primary MacBook pro to provide the VNC server to another computer, and to use that VNC served display as secondary display on the...
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