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: [WayBack] Change Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld
–jeroen
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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):
- You can see what WIFI related components have debug logging enabled with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug- You can disable all debug logging with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug -AllUserland -AllDriver -AllVendorFor whatever reason, the debug logging flag was enabled for ‘DriverWPA’ on my machine and that resulted in
/tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.logfiles getting generated when joining new WPA2 protected WIFI networks.
Source: [WayBack] macos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User; thanks [WayBack] MattLord for answering that!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/06
[WayBack] Chris Bensen: Sync a Shared Google Calendar with Calendar in iOS or macOS
Cool: configure a shared Google Calendar to show up in the Calendar in iOS or macOS
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect
–jeroen
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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 [WayBack] Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld
This also increases LAN sync speeds of DropBox, Google Drive and others.
Note the connection by default using SMB
–jeroen
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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:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27
From the “I hate my users” department:
–jeroen
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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 powershellThere 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
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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:
tmutil tricks to see if something went wrong; if they don’t help, then you can always make a free Genius Bar appointment [WayBack] Will Time Machine backup my SD card? | Official Apple Support Communities–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
This worked for me as suddenly – after upgrading to Sierra – the App Store was all Dutch where previously it was English:
After I fought with the issue for a few hours, I found the solution.
- Open Mac App Store and log out of the account.
- Restart your Mac.
- Log in to the account again.
Thanks [WayBack] Blaszard for the above answer at [WayBack] macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
Note that this syncs the language in the App Store with the one you’ve set on the OS X level; for changing that, see [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the language your Mac uses
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
For me the easiest is on a sudo terminal (so I can omit the sudo part in the below commands), but if you’d do it “rather safe then sorry”, you can go from the fine-grained individual backup level:
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss
step by step
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name
all the way back to
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb
Incidentally, the tmutil documentation is now regarded as legacy (I’m not sure why) so before it goes away, I’ve archived it:
[Archive.is] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tmutil.8.html
It’s not at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html as for instance [WayBack] man tmutil … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ referred to a few years back.
Anyway:
enablelocal feature that Kristian Köhntopp refers to that I didn’t know about yet:Turn on local Time Machine snapshots. Requires root privileges.
disablelocal
Turn off local Time Machine snapshots and trigger automatic cleanup of accumulated local snapshot data. Requires root privileges.”
–jeroen
–jeroen
via [WayBack] macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 