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Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11

  1. Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
  2. Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
  3. Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window

Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBackStop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Change Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/16

Learn one way to change Excel’s Control-U shortcut to the easier-to-use F2 (which also matches the Windows’ shortcut).

Ah, so Ctrl-U is the shortcut to edit a cell on Mac OS X with Microsoft Office Excel (:

Source: [WayBackChange Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

macos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13

When you have many /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files, then this is how to get rid of them (it happened to me on a fresh Sierra machine):

At least on macOS Sierra (10.12):

  1. You can see what WIFI related components have debug logging enabled with:shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug
  2. You can disable all debug logging with:shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug -AllUserland -AllDriver -AllVendor

For whatever reason, the debug logging flag was enabled for ‘DriverWPA’ on my machine and that resulted in /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files getting generated when joining new WPA2 protected WIFI networks.

Source: [WayBackmacos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User; thanks [WayBack] MattLord for answering that!

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30

TL;DR: Connecting to Macs over Thunderbolt is easy and has transfer speeds way faster than other network connections.

Summary of steps from [WayBackConnecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld

  • Connect the Thunderbolt cable between two Macs
  • In the Network Preferences find the self-assigned IP address on either side
  • In that side, ensure you have File Sharing enabled
  • On the other side, open a Finder, press Command-K, then the IP-address you noted and logon
  • Transfer files

This also increases LAN sync speeds of DropBox, Google Drive and others.

Note the connection by default using SMB

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Capturing from a Magewell XI100USB on a Mac using OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/28

Some notes and links on http://www.magewell.com/usb-capture-hdmi with specs at http://www.magewell.com/usb-capture-hdmi/tech-specs

USBCaptureHDMI-Installation-Guide-en-2.0.pdf USB-Capture-HDMI-User-Guide-en.pdf USB-Capture-HDMI_Spec-sheet.pdf

http://www.magewell.com/files/CaptureStudio.zip

The video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbjIx1qhvpM uses Quickier

I used QCamera: the XI100USB shows up as a camera.

Note capturing takes a lot of CPU power, so ensure you’re not running on battery.

I didn’t need any of these downloads:

On a Mac any of these software tools should work as well:

  • Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
  • Adobe Connect
  • CoGe VJ
  • Discover Video Streamsie
  • Gotomeeting
  • GrandVJ
  • MadMapper
  • mimoLive
  • OBS studio
  • Quicklaunch
  • QuickTime Broadcaster
  • QuickTime Player
  • Resolume
  • Skype
  • Streambox
  • Video Stitch
  • VirtualDub
  • VLC
  • Wirecast
  • Zoom.us

 

–jeroen

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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Office 2011 for Mac update pesky Window pops up every 10 seconds

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27

From the “I hate my users” department:

  • This dialog pops up every 10 seconds
  • The Office 2011 for Mac update requires non-Office apps to quit as well

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Development, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, Office, Office 2011 for Mac, Power User, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux) | Leave a Comment »

Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26

I forgot to blog about this before, but 2 months ago PowerShell core came available: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported! | PowerShell Team Blog.

[WayBack] Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs is easy (one way is through homebrew:

$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew cask install powershell

If you already installed a beta, then the steps are these:

$ brew update
$ brew cask reinstall powershell

Note that after installation, it is known as pwsh (at least one of the betas named it powershell) to set PowerShell Core apart from PowerShell*:

$ pwsh --version
PowerShell v6.0.2

Via: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

*pwsh versus powershell

There has been quite a discussion on the PowerShell Core repository on the rename, but I think it is for a good reason.

Too bad that during part of the beta, the old name powershell was used, but beta-time means things break every now and then.

PowerShell Core is sufficiently different from prior PowerShell versions to warrant a name change. This also makes it a lot easier to use them side-by-side.

Many other names (like posh, pcsh or psh) were considered, usually because of naming conflicts with existing tools (like posh) or easy confusion with existing shells (like pcsh and csh). A benefit on Linux/macOS is that it now ends with sh like virtually all other shells.

More background information is at:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, CommandLine, Development, Home brew / homebrew, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self if I want to include an SD card in a Time Machine backup

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26

It should be all automagic as soon as I format an SD card as journaled HFS, but in case it isn’t, here are some links:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | Leave a Comment »

macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19

With system account starting with underscore:

dscl . list /Users

Without underscore, so only regular accounts:

dscl . list /Users | grep -v ^_.*

Source: [WayBackmacos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+Hackintosh Guide: GA-X99P-SLI | Intel 6950X | GTX 980ti

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/05

If I ever want to create a GPU grade or server grade Mac system: [WayBackHackintosh Guide: GA-X99P-SLI | Intel 6950X | GTX 980ti New Hackintosh is complete. If you want to recreate my setup, here’s the guide I wrote up.… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+

It’s nicely wrapped up: koush/EFI-X99: Hackintosh Guide: Gigabyte X99P-SLI, Intel 6950X, GeForce GTX 980ti

(Apple still sells Mac OS X Server, but no server grade hardware any more)

Note there are others having an X99 hackintosh.

More details:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Development, Hardware Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | 1 Comment »