Learn about various macOS utilities, applications, and how they can enhance your productivity and work flows.
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!
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 🙂
Here’s a solution how to stop iPhoto from launching in OS X 10.10 Yosemite whenever an iOS device like iPhone or iPad is getting connected to the Mac.
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.
This is an adaption of my previously posted Automator Service to add Text Selections as new Tasks to Wunderlist.app – but this time I adjusted the Automator Service to do the same for Apple’s Reminders.app!
In OS X it is fairly simple to create a virtual disk image of the type “ISO” by using built-in UNIX tools and the Terminal. We are going to use the “dd” UNIX tool to copy a whole CD/DVD into a new ISO disk image file.
Since a couple days the new iOS 7 is available – and the iPhone 4 is the oldest generation of iPhones still supported for the new iOS. I do have an iPhone 4 and decided to take the chance to update from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Here is a brief summary of my experience during the last few days with iOS 7 on an iPhone 4.
It’s still one of the easiest ways to get someone’s data when you get your hands on a USB stick. It’s quite interesting, what you find on these portable drives – whether it’s from a friend or a business contact. There are serveral ways to protect yourself better by encrypting and password locking the drives. Sometimes there’s a preinstalled software on the USB drive available for that – but mostly not. I have a short how-to here showing how you can achieve this really easy using standard tools on your Mac!
Automator itself is a really powerful tool for automating recurring tasks in OS X. Unfortunately it’s still not really something regular Mac users are using for making tasks and working in OS X more efficient. The following example will show you, how to directly open the Wikipedia page containing the List of Episodes of a given TV show. Think outside the box in order to adapt this for many other uses.
Don’t worry, I didn’t move away from Apple devices 😉 But due to my current job, I got an Android OS based mobile phone. And of course I wanted to be able to access my perfectly organized contact cards there… Continue reading » “iCloud: how to sync Contacts and Calendars to Android OS”