The new dark mode introduced with Mojave has some issues with Mails where the author has used text highlighting (like, putting a yellow background behind a black text): This is going to be white on yellow in dark mode, and hence hardly readable. Worse even, there appears to be...
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_TagsMail.mdimporter prevents Spotlight in Mojave to finish
Over the last couple of days, I’ve had issues with Spotlight after I moved on to Mojave. The indexing never appeared to go past a certain point.
Continue reading...How to disable and enable the Crash Reporter on MacOS
The Crash Reporter can consume quite some system resources if one process is out of bounds. Here is how you can disable it.
Continue reading...Fix SeaFile error “there is a conflict with an existing library”
Every now and then I get this error when working with Seafile: “there is a conflict with an existing library.” And just today I found out that I had found a solution three years ago, and since then forgotten about it. So here’s again, for the record, what I...
Continue reading...Fix Audio Problems on MacOS Mojave
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...
Continue reading...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.
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