Articles with practical solutions to common tech problems, from software issues to hardware fixes and more.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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!