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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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/07
Based on [WayBack] How to set default apps on Mac | iMore.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:
Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.
The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:
Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/13
Toggle between regular view and view all formulas in a worksheet via [WayBack] Quickly See All the Formulas in Excel with This Shortcut which I wish I had known years ago:
- Windows:
Ctrl+`(the acute accent key, found next to the number 1 on your keyboard).- MacOS:
Cmd+`
Found using image search macos excel show all formulas – Google Search
–jeroen
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