As part of my DBA, there is what the university calls a “personal development module.” So people ask me questions that are meant to make you think. The question we got over the holiday period was this: “What is your main purpose in life right now?” I don’t know...
Continue reading...Adblock, System-Wide, without Plugins… Pi-Hole!
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.
Continue reading...UnScrivening
I truly think, I just fell in love with a program. I’m talking about Scrivener. Since I’m doing research / academic writing rather than novel writing, I had not really looked at the program after I had bought it and played a bit with it a couple of years...
Continue reading...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...Workaround for Lync Issues opening the Skype for Business application on IOS
I’ve been struggling with Lync (Skype for Business) issues this morning. Both iPhone and iPad suddenly no longer opened the Skype for Business application when clicking on a Lync link. So for example, a calendar invite may contain something like this:
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,...
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