Hacks

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...

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...

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...

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...

…seems like perhaps a weird thing to do. But it actually does make sense.