Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/06
Two tools I like:
GrandPersctive is good at showing a visual overeview. OmniDiskSweeper is better at gradually drilling down.
Easy installation:
$ brew install caskroom/cask/omnidisksweeper
$ brew install caskroom/cask/grandperspective
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/03
[WayBack] AppCleaner helped me get rid of a the gazillion number of versions that GoToMeeting had silently installed and their dependencies.
Gigabytes recovered.
Installing is easy: $ brew install caskroom/cask/appcleaner
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/03
A friend asked me what tools I use for downloading media, converting it to various formats (including audio extraction) and audio editing.
It is a surprisingly short list:
Most of it runs out of the box on Mac OS X/MacOS/OS X, as I’ve moved there form Windows for most of my day to day access to systems (there is a great set of Microsoft Remote Desktop in the app store: [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0 on the Mac App Store and [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 on the Mac App Store; I like the first one better).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/29
For quite a while, I had the error “The application “Audacity.app” can’t be opened.” and Audacity still opening. Clicking the OK button often enough made me hunt for the solution:
This is what I did:
$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/audacity
$ grep Temp audacity.cfg
TempDir=/Users/jeroenp/Library/Application Support/audacity/SessionData
Then I checked if the directory existed:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/26
Put the song in a playlist and click the check box off. All the songs in the playlist will have to be clicked off as well.Or easier still have the track as the only song in the play list.
For me, the easiest way to do this is to put all songs in a playlist, then in the playlist (can be “Playlist” view mode, but “Songs” view mode is easier). The video below shows exactly how to do this, but here are te steps:
select all songs with Command-AVia:
Finally, [WayBack] iTunes 11 for Mac: Ways to play songs shows the meaning of the shuffle and repeat buttons in the player:
Source: S0024_ProgressBar.png (350×115)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/22
And still the UI has not improved:
The default folder-merge behavior in Mac OS X is to erase the existing folder, deleting all its files rather than offering to merge them intelligently. Windows and Linux file managers have offered folder-merging for decades, but Macs still don’t.
[WayBack]How to Merge Folders on Mac OS X Without Losing All Your Files (Seriously)
Via: [WayBack] Yes, you’re reading that right — try to merge a folder like you would on Windows or Linux and you’ll lose all the old folder’s files if you click Replace… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/05
The Terminal on Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS is very much like a Linux terminal, but there are also a lot of differences especially with keyboard, tab and process handling.
So this chapter is very much wort reading: [WayBack] 1. Inside the Terminal – Mac OS X For Unix Geeks, 4th Edition [Book]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/28
It can run [WayBack] RASPPLE II: A2CLOUD, A2SERVER, Apple II Pi for Raspberry Pi
Lot’s of videos below, all by David Schmenk https://www.youtube.com/user/dschmenk/videos
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/26
Two years later, it is a reminder to look at my statement again: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi dpi is a mess, not just on Windows. It will take considerable time to overcome the decades long Pixel mess we’ve been coming from (:”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/14
Based on [WayBack] appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different there is one choice that might work on Apple TV 3rd generation and 4th generation:
This is the only practical solution I dissected from [WayBack] How to surf the web and use Safari on Apple TV – Macworld UK: Here is how to browse the internet and watch web services on your Apple TV.
Installing requires a few steps as described at
Limiting to only Apple TV 4, another solution is also possible:
However the last solution is not a real web browser, so it does not allow a layout I’m using for the calendar, or actually two calendars:
The reason I need this is because my brother is mentally retarded having problems with abstract concepts like relative time and scheduling. Like me he is also easily distracted and not good at repeating tasks. So looking at a schedule at least once a day is tough for him.
He is very good at concrete topics, especially ones he can put to practice right away like “will it rain on my way to work”. That makes him look at this web page in the first place.
Currently this calendar is shown on a monitor by a Raspberry Pi attached to it.
But I might go for the Apple TV 3 route later on.
–jeroen
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