Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/08
While an Android device connects seamlesly to a Windows computer, you need to install Android File Transfer and run it each time you want to connect to it from a Mac running OS X.
See: Connecting to a Macintosh computer via USB – Android OS Help.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/18
Martin Millstam posted this on Google Groups:
I figured out that it was the number of active downloads.
Not very intuitive as I first thought it was pending updates to Chrome, then to Extensions.
It turned out to be the number of active downloads.
It wasn’t intuitive for me either (:
–jeroen
via: On Mac, Chrome dock Icon shows a number on it: what does this mean? – Google Groups.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/04
One of the things that bugged me when using Mac OS X after years of Windows usage was that the Tab key doesn’t focus buttons in dialogs.
Luckily, there is a setting for that, which by default is off.
Steps (press on a screenshot to enlarge):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/13
I wish I had kept an eye on it after it was announced (which was 3.5 years ago, but not very stable): The Youtube HTML5 viewer trial.
It has come a long way since then. Full screen it is still not as good as the official one, but the main attraction introduced since is: configurable playback speed!
Yes, you can choose playback at 25%, 50%, 100%, 150% or 200% of the original speed. Ideal for lectures or watching replays of conference sessions.
Quote from the life hacker post LifeHacker on this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31
Interesting:
Dialogue is a simple Mac application that uses bluetooth to connect your Mac with your phone. It allows you to answer and make normal phone calls over your Mac.
–jeroen
via: Mac App Store – Dialogue.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/12
Though Apple prominently advertises with the OS X name, they give Mac users a hard time finding it:
None of the built in options like “About this Mac” or “Software Update…” tell you the OS X name. They only tell you the OS X version number.
So I grabbed this list from the OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. article:
This list was correct at the time of writing, but Wikipedia probably keeps a better track at updating than I do, so after publication my list might lag behind.
–jeroen
via OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
When doing a lot of remote desktop and VM work from a Mac to Windows machines, the Mission Control shortcuts (like Ctrl Up/Down) often get in the way.
Since I hardly use Mission Control anyway (I run VMs and remote machines to really cut dependencies: far stronger than multiple desktops), I just disabled all the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts you see here:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/05
Easy, but worth viewing the screenshots: IPredator – Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion.
Although: I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/24
When Spotlight on my MacBook Air that runs OS X Lion didn’t show any results from the file system any more, I tried a lot of options, but only the final one worked: reboot:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i off
Password:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ ls -al /
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -E /
/:
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i on /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-400)
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i on -E /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-400)
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
com.apple.metadata.mds: Already loaded
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -as
/:
No index.
/.MobileBackups:
No index.
/Volumes/Firefox:
Indexing disabled.
/Volumes/MobileBackups:
Index is read-only.
/Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb:
Index is read-only.
/Volumes/Opera:
Indexing disabled.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ reboot
It was only later that I found out maybe a simpeler solution would have worked: kill all of the mdworker processes like this:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo killall -9 mdworker
–jeroen
Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/13
Edit:
After writing this, DSA got deprecated then later removed. See [WayBack] Secure Secure Shell.
When working with SSH private/public keys (often because of ssh-keygen), and using DSA for auhtentication, these are the relevant files:
Important:
Be sure to transfer the contents of the local $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file to the remote system in a secure way.
–jeroen
via ssh-keygen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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