This is absolutely awesome. I just came across Pi-Hole, a DNS based ad blocker that you can install on a Raspi or just some Linux box you may have around.
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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.
Continue reading...How to run a SuperDrive on a USB Hub – MacOS Sierra Version
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...
Continue reading...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...
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