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keyboard shortcut to edit cell content? | Apple Support Communities

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/19

When you’ve got an Excel on Windows back-ground, sometimes simple stuff is difficult. So:

option+return edits a cell’s content.

Source: keyboard shortcut to edit cell content? | Apple Support Communities

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User | Leave a Comment »

munki/createOSXinstallPkg: Tools for packaging OS X installers – upgrade Mac OS X from InstallESD.dmg

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/12

You can use this package to install OS X on an empty partition, but perhaps more interestingly, you can also use it to upgrade existing OS X installations to a newer version of the OS X. There are many tools and workflows that support the installation of Apple packages; you can use these together with an OS X installation package to upgrade machines to the latest version of OS X.This is especially interesting when used with tools like Munki — you can automate the upgrade of a group of machines while still preserving user data, or offer an upgrade as a “Self-Service”-type option where a user can initiate an OS X upgrade themselves without needing to have administrative rights.

I will probably need this one day.

Source: munki/createOSXinstallPkg: Tools for packaging OS X installers

–jeroen

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

Mac OS X: “fzsftp could not be started” when connecting over SFTP

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/02

A while ago I had a “fzsftp could not be started” error using FileZilla on Mac OS X.

From the search results, it wasn’t exactly clear what I did wrong, as the “Show Package Contents” context menu showed “…/Contents/MacOS/fzsftp”

Then I remembered I got a bit confused with all the FileZilla updates coming out and renaming it to contain a version number (I do that with many applications so I can keep old versions allowing me to quickly revert to an older version if there are version compatibilities).

Renaming FileZilla.3.16.x.app back to FileZilla.app solved the issue: apparently FileZilla has a hardcoded dependency on exactly that name. I got there because of the hint about spaces in directories from this thread: fzsftp could not be started – FileZilla Forums

This was before Mac OS X El Capitan; with that version you have to set permissions correctly as well: fzsftp could not be started – Kruyswijk-ICT BV

–jeroen

 

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »

$59 HDFury Universal PSU Doctor Supports Power Monitoring via iOS or Android

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/11

Interesting device [WayBack]: $59 HDFury Universal PSU Doctor Supports Power Monitoring via iOS or Android which has a lot more details.

Via: [WayBack] +HDfury has launched a 3-port USB charger/power supply with power monitoring function. – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Android Devices, Apple, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, iOS, Power User, USB | Leave a Comment »

(35) Introducing Macintosh System 7.5 Product Overview – July 15, 1994 – Apple VHS Archive – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/20

Some 23 years ago…

Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, History, Macintosh SE/30, Power User | Leave a Comment »

MacOS System 7.0.1 Compilation : Apple Computer : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/17

Cool stuff to compare when I have my Macintosh SE/30 up and running again: [Archive.is] MacOS System 7.0.1 Compilation : Apple Computer : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Everything can either:

There is quite a bite included:

System Programs: Applications: Games: Utilities: Toys:
HyperCard, BBEdit Lite, Risk, HD Setup, Alarm
Macintosh MacDraw, Cannon Fodder, Disinfectant, Clock,
Basics, MacPaint, Shufflepuck. Disk Copy, Calculator,
Control Panels. Microsoft Excel, ResEdit, Note Pad,
Microsoft Word, TeachText, Puzzle,
Microsoft Works, Compact Pro, Mac Gzip,
Orion, Mar, Scrapbook.
Pagemaker, Stuffit Expander,
ZTerm. Stuffit Lite.

The [Archive.is] downloads:

../
00_coverscreenshot.jpg                          04-Apr-2017 04:51     50.9K
00_coverscreenshot_thumb.jpg                    04-Apr-2017 04:51     3.0K
_screenshot.gif                                 04-Apr-2017 04:51     62.7K
hd1.img                                         04-Apr-2017 04:12     20.4M
hd2.img                                         04-Apr-2017 04:12     20.4M
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation.gif                 04-Apr-2017 04:51     4.2K
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation_archive.torrent     16-Apr-2017 21:33     4.5K
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation_files.xml           16-Apr-2017 21:33     3.8K
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation_meta.sqlite         04-Apr-2017 04:51     14.0K
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation_meta.xml            04-Apr-2017 05:49     4.2K
mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation_reviews.xml         16-Apr-2017 21:33     633.0B
screenshot_00.jpg                               04-Apr-2017 04:51     50.9K
screenshot_00_thumb.jpg                         04-Apr-2017 04:51     3.0K

–jeroen

Via (and more background info at): [WayBack] In-browser Mac OS 7.0.1 emulation, compatible software suite arrives at the Internet Archive

A pair of 20MB hard drive compilations contain a full MacOS 7.0.1 environment that runs in a browser, and contains an assortment of applications spanning from 1984 to 1991 has appeared on the Internet Archive, with the entire bundle able to be run inside Safari.

 

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Launch & Run Multiple Instances of Any Application in Mac OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/17

I needed a second instance of Atom to run on a second monitor:

open -n /Applications/Atom.app

Or even shorter:

open -na Atom

I got there via: Launch & Run Multiple Instances of Any Application in Mac OS X

The reason is that searching for Mac OS X start second Atom instance does not reveal satisfactory results, as the tips in these links all fail:

–jeroen

 

Posted in Apple, atom editor, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »

Getting your local IPv4 addresses, netmasks and CIDRs

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/11

In order to scan some local networks for unknown hosts (yes, on some sites you need to perform archeology), I needed the local IPv4 addresses, netmasks and CIDRs on my Mac running OS X.

Part of that is using ifconfig to get local inet information which however uses hexadecimal network masks and delivers no CIDRs.

SoI was a bit premature when I wrote about “This could be done by creating bash functions mask2cdr and cdr2mask, but that’s a bit too convoluted right now” in Getting the IP addresses of gmail MX servers – via Super User – dig isn’t enough.

netmask to CIDR and CIDR to netmask conversion

I need mask2cdr now, so lets start with these two bash functions and their aliases:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

OS X – the versions and their names – as I always forget them

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03

I always forget which OS X versions there are and which names they use.

So via: OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, I made this list where the first item points to the table in the above article and each subsequent item to the individual article on the version. I tried to find EOL dates, but that’s hard despite the overview at Apple security updates – Apple Support:

None of this would be noteworthy if Apple, like Microsoft and a host of other major software vendors, clearly spelled out its support policies. But Apple doesn’t, leaving users to guess about when their operating systems will fall off support. | Computerworld

–jeroen

PS: EOL dates are as of 20160403.

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | 1 Comment »

Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03

Conditions are very, very good right now for easy, top-quality, final ingestion of original commercial Apple II Software and if you know people sitting on a pile of it or even if you have a small handful of boxes, please get in touch with me to arrange the disks to be imaged. apple@textfiles.com.

For example, piles and piles of educational software has returned from potential oblivion, because it’s about the preservation, not the title. Wonderfully done works are being brought back to life and are playable on the Internet Archive.

In other words: if you have or know someone who has disks with original, uncracked software that cannot be copied easily, let the team at the WayBack machine know as they have the resources that can help preserve that software.

–jeroen

Source: [WayBack] Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott

Posted in //e, 6502, Apple, Apple ][, History, Power User | Leave a Comment »

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