OS X: Create ZIP archives without hidden System files
Get rid of these .DS_Store files when sharing ZIP files with friends…
OS X: Delete single objects from Time Machine backups
I already posted a step-by-step guide on how to delete old backups from your Time Machine drive in order to free up space. What I did not mention in that article was how you can delete single files & folders… Continue reading » “OS X: Delete single objects from Time Machine backups”
Project Server 2010: Export Status Report Responses using Excel
Microsoft didn’t spend too much time on the “Status Reports” module in Project Server 2010, leaving it with many disadvantages and even a somewhat not so intuitive handling. This affects especially the extraction of Responses to Status Reports. That’s why I developed my own SQL-Query to export these responses to an Excel Pivot-Table.
Project Server 2010: How-to add Notifications for your Users
Unfortunately Microsoft’s Project Server 2010 doesn’t allow an administrator to set default settings for Notifications for all Users. So I had to figure out a way how I can “force” my Users to receive certain Notifications – and I dug into the Database for that.
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.
Windows 7: How-to Hide the Libraries Icon and Window-Previews
On my new corporate computer installed with Windows 7 OS, these two things bugged me from the very beginning: how can I remove this unnecessary “Libraries” folder from the desktop (still didn’t figure out what it is for) and how… Continue reading » “Windows 7: How-to Hide the Libraries Icon and Window-Previews”
iPhone: solution when Network is dropping
Since some weeks my iPhone 4 started to act strange in terms of showing a popup message whenever it lost the cellular network. I figured out how to solve this behavior.
OS X: Free space on your Time Machine backup drive
Searching through the web I did not find any up-to-date help on how to properly remove old Time Machine backups, in order to have more space available. But when trying the most easy and obvious way, I figured out that’s how Apple intended to do it…
Quake 3 Arena: Console Commands
My list of favourite console commands to simplify the quality in Quake III Arena (= optimize performance on slower machines)
OS X: 10.7 Post-Upgrade checklist
I just upgraded to OS X Lion and put together a post-upgrade checklist with more or less important things I had to take care of.