Now after I’ve ended up about 700 times to always do the same thing: In BibDesk, add a “Note” field to a publication, copy my template for that note field, paste it into the publication, then copy and paste the URL I want to refer to into the right...
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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...How to free up some Host Disk Space with Virtual Box
Here’s some hints on how to reduce the size of your virtualbox disk image (VDI) files, for linux guests (and host). First, you’d of course shut down your virtual box guest and then make a backup copy of that vdi file just in case. Next, boot into your guest...
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...Export from VitalSource Bookshelf
Every now and again, my University gives us a reader through the DRM black hole software that they deemed useful to license: VitalSource bookshelf. And of course, that means you’ll get encrypted content, which your operating system and document management system of choice won’t index. And just as with...
Continue reading...apt-get upgrade failing after moving from vmware to virtual box?
Moving to VirtualBox is just a great idea when you’re coming from VMWare Server 2.0 which is no longer supported. VirtualBox is a lot more modern, also allows for a headless setup, and it is a lot faster. The only drawback I saw is that VMWare Server allows for...
Continue reading...Pay attention to disk space when you’re running unattended upgrades on your Linux boxes
Today’s one of those days where you start with a clear plan of what you want to do, and then you end up fixing something entirely different. Since I’ve built most of my virtual machines based on a small set of templates, at some point I got bored by...
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