Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/07
A long time ago, I bumped into [WayBack] Mac Photo/Slideshow Viewer that supports recursion: Phoenix Slides, but only recently I discovered it has made it to GitHub as well, so now you can download it from two places:
Despite the Phoenix Slides product name, the repository is at https://github.com/gobbledegook/creevey
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/04
Quite a while back I wrote [WayBack] Viewing an USB camera on Mac OS X without mirroring.
I still use the solution Quick Camera mentioned there, but also found a solution that works with the Photo Booth application:
Just made a QTZ to counteract the annoying mirror-image which is considered “normal” in Photo Booth. I borrowed a patch from the “Effect.qtz” which is located inside the Photo Booth.app, and I edited it in Quartz Composer . Please note that this will NOT affect the mirror-image which occurs using other effects; they will STILL be mirror images of your subject.
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This patch fixes the preview, photos AND video. This patch fixes the SOURCE of the video, not the resulting output images.
[WayBack] UN-MIRROR yourself in Photo Booth – patch | MacRumors Forums
Steps to manually create the Quartz file are at [WayBack] Camera question: Why is the camera a mirror effect? | Mac Forums
So I learned about Quarts Composer and composition plugins which are basically a visual programming language:
This is unlike another QC that got killed.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/15
Very useful when you want to give your WiFi less priority than an USB or Thunderbolt network adapter: [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the order of the network ports your computer uses to connect.
It is not just that the topmost adapter gets more priority: it also determines the DNS search!
Anyway: after choosing “Set Service Order” on the right, choose the order as seen below.
–jeroen
PS: Since Apple is cleaning up their site, only the above WayBack works, but luckily the below link explains it in a very similar way when using Locations:
[WayBack] How to use network locations on your Mac – Apple Support
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/05
If you suffer from [WayBack] macos – Excessive CPU usage from sysmond – Ask Different, then it could be Activity Monitor itself using that CPU.
If you suffer from high CPU usage in mds, then it is likely the Spotlight search indexer acting up: [WayBack] mds – what MDS process is and why it uses CPU on the Mac
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/27
[WayBack] I am on a Mac that is bound to an AD Domain. The AD Domain has a 90 days password expiration policy. When will my password expire? $ cat bin/is-passwor… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
For my link archive:
| #! /bin/bash — | |
| validFor=$(( 90 * 86400 )) | |
| domainPrefix='/Active Directory/DOMAIN/doma.in/" | |
| lastPW=$(dscl "/$domainPrefix" -read /Users/$USER | awk '/SMBPasswordLastSet/ { print $NF }') | |
| unixPW=$(($lastPW / 10000000 – 11644473600 + $validFor)) | |
| expireDate=$(date -r $unixPW) | |
| echo "Password expires $expireDate" |
Script copied to [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp: I am on a Mac that is bound to an AD Domain. The AD Domain has a 90 days password expiration policy. When will my password expire? · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/17
If you are still on version 8, then note this version will be deprecated at 20180901, so it is time to upgrade to [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 on the Mac App Store
[Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 on the Mac App Store is now at version 8.0.44, which changed one thing:
This update adds a dismissible banner to the app UI to message the fact that the client will be deprecated soon. You can start using the new version of Remote Desktop today by downloading Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 from the App Store.
It is easy to import your RDP desktops from version 8 into version 18: in the menu, select Connections, then Import from Microsoft Remote Desktop 8, then enter your credentials so the saved logon passwords can be imported from the [WayBack] KeyChain.
A few things to note:
Background reading:
The full version histories of both:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07
Around this time, episode 500 of RetroMacCast should be out.
It’s an “about weekly” podcast centered around classic Apple computers, mainly of the Macintosh kind but occasionally also on the Apple I, ][, //e, //c and ///, IIgs and Lisa kinds.
After all these years since they started in 2006, It’s still fun to listen to.
Occasionally they do a vodcast on YouTube, for instance their 100th show below.
New episodes are announced here:
Source: [WayBack] Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/31
There are [WayBack] 7 ways to lock your MacBook – CNET: When it comes to locking your Mac, you have options.
For now I’ve added the below alias to my ~/.bash_profile which only works if you have “require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver begins”. I have that enabled (with a 5 second delay, not immediate so that when I’m behind my laptop and it starts the screensaver I can still move the mouse or touch a key to keep it awake).
alias sleep-display='pmset displaysleepnow'
See:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/30
Back in the days, Apple and The Beatles were in a heated fight as Apple was not supposed to do anything resembling music in their systems.
So when sounds needed to be made, they could not be named by words having to do with music.
The legal team in Apple – known for lack of humor – was scrutinizing sources and documents on names that would be inappropriate.
Jim Reekes came up with letitbeep for one of the warning sounds, but that was too obvious, so he said sosumi, pretended it to be a Japanese word and named the sound just like that.
I learned from it through one of the RetroMacCast videos below. Then I found the page Sosumi – Wikipedia. So I guess I’ll be never to old to learn (:
–jeroen
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