When connecting with Lync on Yosemite, and your primary system language is not English (how could that potentially be…), Lync up to 14.0.9 will cycle the login process. Microsoft has acknowledge the problem and provided for a fix.
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Thermal Problem with MacBook Air 2013
Same procedure as last year, Ms Sophie? I’ve had another round of checking Apple’s Thermal Paste, this time on two MacBook Air’s I’ve bought about a year ago. And, just like before, same problem.
Continue reading...Visual Feedback from Apple Scripts
I am probably overly abusing Better Touch Tool. As an example, while reading a book in Full Screen mode with Skim, I want to create different types of annotations but I do not want to use the menu or even the keyboard to switch annotation types. I want to...
Continue reading...How to run a SuperDrive on a USB Hub
Jeff Grundy has made an awesome suggestion on how to make an Apple SuperDrive work on a USB Hub. As a background, Apple supports running these drives only when connected directly to the computer. They also work when connected to a ThunderBolt display, but you’ll get a warning saying the...
Continue reading...Rip DVDs on Mavericks…
So I was very much not amused when loading a DVD into my “Superdrive” – and it opening the DVD Player application, requesting me to enter a region code – and ejecting the DVD when aborting the process. Moving the DVD app out of the way (or changing the...
Continue reading...How to open Preview or Skim from DEVONThink
Unfortunately, DEVONThink utilizes its own PDF preview application. If you’d rather want to open Preview, you can utilize BetterTouchTool and set up a custom action for DEVONThink for a keyboard combination to use.
Continue reading...Triple the USB Speed on a MacBook Pro for 10 $…
I recently got one of those awesome Western Digital MyPassport USB Drives. And then noticed that my 2010 17” MacBook Pro (running on OSX 10.8.4) has a USB 2.0 port only, which means it is slow as in
Continue reading...Apple Time Machine – get back in the Driver’s Seat!
Background Maybe it is just me again overcomplicating things. Yet I recently noticed that when I went on my VPN, using my IPhone to connect to the Internet, and then OpenVPN, at some point, TimeMachine decided to run a backup. Not the best idea in the world even if...
Continue reading...CVS pserver on Mountain Lion
Right. I do know CVS is old and all, but I like it. Actually I’ve a ton of stuff in my CVS server. And have written all kinds of scripts that digest that stuff and do stuff with it. So no, I’ll not switch any time soon for the...
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