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.
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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...How to create Persistent File Links from Evernote to the Filesystem
So I’m playing around with Evernote and essentially don’t want to use Evernote as my “store it all” kind of document repository. DevonThink didn’t work out that well after all, and using Evernote that way seems to be equally inadequate. At the end of the day, I have a...
Continue reading...Latest Pornographic Addition…
So here it is, the added 150 TB of backup space that just came in.
Continue reading...Moving Virtual Boxes in Ubuntu
This is perhaps the 100 millionth post on the topic, yet all I could find was how to move the virtual box files through vboxmanage, which appears to imply having to remove snapshots. Here is a very easy different process that will just repoint to where the machine’s folder...
Continue reading...Drilling Holes into your MacBook Air…
…seems like perhaps a weird thing to do. But it actually does make sense.
Continue reading...Find out your BabyPing Camera to use with the BabyPing Viewer
So it has been quite a while since I have published the BabyPingViewer app on the app store. The reception was great, yet there is one recurring question that people raise: Since BabyPing has modified their way to create a password for the admin user, now depending on the...
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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