macOS: get all iWork apps for free
There’s any easy way to get the whole Apple iWork suite FOR FREE – Numbers, Pages, Keynote: just follow these simple steps…
macOS: how-to sync MAMP across multiple devices
In this article I describe, how you can keep a MAMP installation with all web-project files & folders in-sync across multiple Macs with macOS.
OS X: launcher for iOS Simulator and bypassing Xcode
On OS X, the best way to almost natively test apps or websites is by using the so called “iOS Simulator” (now named simply “Simulator”) which is available as part of the installed Xcode Development Tools.
So to bypass Xcode for starting the Simulator, I wrote a simple Automator application which directly launches the Simulator.app – you can download it in this post or create it yourself following the instructions.
Google Search – powerful search features beyond your usual searches
What I appreciate about Google Search is just how extensive it is in providing accurate information to queries, where I am only looking for a certain specific information – rather than various result pages to websites. In this post I’m showing you some of my favourites, which I use almost daily. Some examples include currency conversion, movie information, weather information, and so on.
Did you know that the Reminders App in OS X has intelligent text interpretation? (example inside)
Apple’s very own Reminders.app, available on OS X, iOS and iCloud, comes with a very neat yet helpful feature: intelligent interpretation of a new reminder/to-do text. On iOS devices using Siri, you can not only tell it what and when to remind you about, but Siri is also intelligent enough to understand in which of your reminders lists that new reminder should go to!
Using Twitter? Enable your free personal Twitter statistics!
You can activate Twitter Statistics for free: with this feature, Twitter gives you great insights about the reach and interactions of every single Tweet you publish – and of course sums it all up in a nice Dashboard. And the best: it’s totally free!
Apple’s OS X Dashboard Weather Widget and JavaScript URL calls analyzed
In the course of analyzing Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget, I found some interesting details about what JavaScript function and URL calls the widget makes and where it retrieves it’s data from. This post contains the URLs called, redirects and example input and output results.
Safari OS X: Fix Facebook web login buttons not working anymore
Here’s a fix for Safari 8 on OS X Yosemite on how-to resolve the issues with the Facebook Single-Sign-On Login Buttons on websites not working anymore, due to a strict Cookie & website data restriction setting in Safari’s Preferences.
Google Pretty Earth: Random Image Link Generator (HTML)
Returns only existing, direct links to static Google’s Earth View (Pretty Earth) images. Link to embed the executed result: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oliveratgithub/eb4a33db70b258120eac/raw/39354fd68c90d6c5ed7cd98fe96f4b96735dad3a/prettyearthimageurl.html Example result: https://www.gstatic.com/prettyearth/assets/full/1222.jpg Code: Sources: GitHub – adriancooney/prettyearth-wallpapers Google Earth View
Game Boy Cheats & Codes for Bionic Commando, Power Quest & Megalit
Here are some cheats & codes for three old Game Boy games I achieved to retrieve a long time ago. Jus for my personal archiving purposes 🙂