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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/25
Both TextMat 1.5 and 2.0 will ask you this upon the first time use:
“Textmate.app would like to access your contacts”
According to their Troubleshooting / MountainLion browse — TextMate Wiki it is valid, but the way they phrase it any sensible user should answer “No way!”.
If you ever want to reverse a decision to such an addressbook question, the only way is to reset it for all the times you answered it:
Perform “tccutil reset addressbook” in a Terminal window as shown in the man page tccutil section 1.
What TextMat should have done instead is customize the text of the question in order to show the intent. This isn’t difficult, as explained on Red Sweater Blog – Can I Get Your Address? by Daniel Jalkut:
In the info.plist, edit the value of the NSContactsUsageDescription key, as suggested by a Tweet from Cabel Maxfield Sasser.
Daniel points to the documentation PDF, where it indeed is stated when you read it very carefully: the detailed text indicates it is for iOS only, but in fact it is there in Mac OS X 10.8 and up as well.
It is also inside the Information Property List Key Reference: Cocoa Keys: the key tells it it for iOS 6+ and OS X 10.8+, but browsing to NSContactsUsageDescription only indicates iOS 6.
–jeroen
via Twitter / voidspace: “Textmate.app would like to ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/20
Just in case I need the youngest Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, I should start at Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac Search results – Microsoft Download Center.
At the time of writing was the 2011 Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 which – though it indicates it runs from Mac OS X 10.5.8 until 10.6.x – runs find on Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, not Tiger including Retina displays.
Do not go through Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac | Office For Mac , as is a marketing page that makes it hard to find what you are looking for (but easy to to get you into Office for Mac).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/13
I always wonder how people can remember the character combinations to type special characters from a regular US international keyboard on a Mac with OS X, or Windows computer.
When having to type a lot of international text, I often use the United States-International keyboard layout in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP.
When not, I often use Character Map. Too bad there is no shortcut for it.
Choosing the U.S International – PC on a Mac OS X (as it behaves exactly like the PC counterpart on Windows) however introduces problems when using Remote Desktop Connection or virtualization software like VMware Fusion or Parallels.
So I sometimes revert to “Special Charters” (option-command-T) under the Edit menu (also called Character Viewer), but usually take advantage that ApplePressAndHoldEnabled by default is enabled: that allows the press-and-hold feature for vowel keys, and then either use the digit keys or arrows to select the target accented character.
On both systems, there are other ways to type special characters using keyboard shortcuts that I find very hard to remember. For people with a good memory, you can try these:
–jeroen
via: Macintosh OSX Keyboards (Penn State).
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/11
I know that Apple likes “design”, but boy their desing resulted into Mac OS X having lots of Fn/Option/Ctrl/Shift keyboard shortcuts.
Being a keyboard person (before the DOS era), I love to learn new keyboard shortcuts to make my life easier, while vendors are step by step hiding information about them.
I will update this table over time to reflect even better the ones I use most regularly.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/07
Every once in a while, some major OS vendor removes a really useful feature.
As of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), the battery icon indicator cannot show the remaining time on battery any more, though it uses that time to indicate low power.
I’ve found that feature really useful in Lion (10.7) and Snow Leopard (10.6), and I’m pretty sure OS X versions before that also had the option to show the remaining battery (charge) time.
There is a big thread about the lack: Time remaining on Mountain Lion battery: Apple Support Communities.
A quick scan in that thread got me a these replacements:
I hope the $099 one is not written by the people that removed the feature from OS X Mountain Lion (:
After trying a few of the above, I filed a complaint at Apple – Mac OS X – Feedback, clicked on “I have this question too” in Time remaining on Mountain Lion battery and went for SlimBatteryMonitor as it uses the least menu bar estate.
Note that for most applications having icons in the menu bar, this is impossible: osx – Can I change the order of non-apple icons on the menu bar of my MacBook? – Super User.
–jeroen
via: Time remaining on Mountain Lion battery: Apple Support Communities.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/31
Too bad a Mac – no matter the OS X version – does not interoperate out of the box with Android like a Windows machine does.
On a Mac you need Android File Transfer to access the Android storage from your Mac.
This transfer app is very fast though and is way easier to use than doubleTwist.
From the Nexus help:
Mac OS transfer
- Install Android File Transfer from www.android.com/filetransfer, and follow the instructions there. (If you are using Android File Transfer for the first time, double-click it to open it. After the first connection, it opens automatically whenever you connect.)
- Connect your phone to your computer with a USB cable. Android File Transfer starts, if it’s not already running, and opens a window that displays the contents of your phone, along with storage space details at the bottom of the window.
- Work with this window much as you do in the Finder window: open and close folders, create new folders, and drag files to or from it and other Finder windows.
- Disconnect the USB cable when you finish.
–jeroen
via: Transfer files through USB – Nexus Help.
Posted in Android Devices, Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Brilliant piece of open source:
SmallestDotNet – SmallestDotNet.com is a single page site that does one thing. It tells you the smallest, easiest download you’d need to get the .NET Framework on your system.
Even on Mac OS X it is helpful and recommends Mono and on iOS it recommends looking at MonoTouch.
Thanks Scott Hanselman for making this available!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/28
Must have on a Mac when you use terminal; either installation way is fine. I got mc from louise, as that was the first one I found.
osx – Midnight Commander (MC) installer for Mac OS X – Super User.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
As a follow up on my recent rsync on ESXi 5.1 post, as – when rsync in ESXi terminates the hard way because of a lost SSH connection – rsync can leave “hidden” files behind.
A small script that recursively shows the hidden files (those starting with a dot) starting from the current directory:
find . -iname ".*"
More of those (including deleting them, filtering for only files or only directories, etc) are at Linux / UNIX: Bash Find And Delete All Hidden Files Directories.
Note: don’t try to outsmart using something like piping through grep "\/\." as that will also match files who’s parent directories are hidden.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/24
Blast from the past, and happy I found back the original blog that pointed me to this: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive » How to copy a file with I/O errors?.
A long while ago, I helped out a friend with a HDD that was partially working. He neede the bits of a file that had become unreadable by regular means.
dd to the rescue: it takes a lot longer, but gets the job done eventually. Eventually can be T+eternity.
Note that you always should copy such a file to another drive, like described in the above blog.
Something like this (the parameters are explained at the dd man page):
dd if=/mounting-path/directory-path/damaged.mp4 of=resurrected.mp4 conv=noerror,sync
Usually for creating disk images, dd works on *n*x, Mac OS X, Windows with for instance Cygwin, ESXi, etc.
See also: linux – Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue – Super User.
–jeroen
via: Not a complete failure » Blog Archive » How to copy a file with I/O errors?.
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