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.
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.
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
Just a simple AppleScript to batch rename files sequentially
Because I just couldn’t find ANYTHING close to this on the interwebz, I had to make my own simple AppleScript to easily batch rename multiple files sequentially.
Microsoft Word: Mail Merge into single documents
A VBA macro for Microsoft Word (Mac + Windows) to Mail Merge each record into separate documents. Execute the following VBA Macro on your Office Word Mail Merge template to have Word generate & save every record into a single file.
List of Apple App Store Countries
Here’s a quick extract of all the Countries in Apple’s itunesconnect.com to which developer’s can publish their iOS apps to (as of December 25, 2012):
Create a local copy of your public WordPress Blog
Recently I struggled a little with un-publishing my public Wordpress Blog to a local MAMP environment, for local testing purposes, before I apply big changes (as it should be). There are actually some minor things to consider, so you can properly get your Wordpress installation running locally.
AppleScript: Move Files from specific Source- to Target-Folder
I wanted to have an AppleScript application, that takes all files from a specific Source-Folder and moves them to a user defined Target-Folder.
OS X: Connect to the MAMP MySQL Server via Terminal
When you have installed MAMP (Mac Apache, MySQL, PHP) on your Mac, you may want to connect to it’s MySQL Server using the OS X Terminal.app. I describe here, how this can be achieved.