9 posts tagged macos, newest first.
Got myself an Andonstar 2 megapixel USB microscope about a year ago, mainly just for testing it out, and having it readily available when some repair project demanded it. The microscope is actually pretty nice given its ca USD 60 price point, with decent picture quality, a sturdy stand (even
Lots of OS upgrades lately, Windows went to Windows 10 and Apple to El Capitan. I am usually pretty ok upgrading to Apple’s latest OSs a week or two after their release – they are usually of good quality. As VirtualBox (“VBox”) also came out with their version 5 release,
The previous post listed some of my favourite OS apps, but there are a few more that also make everyday life easier. When thinking about it, the apps below are just as useful and important as the ones in the previous post. The apps are: * Wunderlist: Todo tracking * Carbon Copy
Being fairly multilingual – I use Macs, Windows and Linux boxes daily – OS X has during the last 4-5 years been the main platform for daily work. And as much as I like the way OS X has developed over the years (including the fact that it’s free once
Turns out that OS X Yosemite on Mac Mini does not support standard Wake-On-Lan (“WOL”), at least not when using the built-in Ethernet port. Which is strange – but when trying to make the media server attached to the household’s TV a bit more energy efficient, I
Node-RED is a truly awesome framework for visually building data flows. There is a lot of focus on wiring together hardware devices and Internet of Things, but there are also plenty of modules for connecting to email, social media, various online services etc. After using it during some months
For some reason i cannot get the easy-to-use tools out there for burning ISOs to work… Command line to the rescue: First, make sure Homebrew is installed. It is strictly not needed for the burning-to-thumb-drive process, but will enable the progress indicators, which are quite
If you spend any time at all at the command prompt in OSX or other Linux-ish systems, tmux is a must. Basically it gives you persistent shell sessions, once using it you’ll wonder how you ever got by without it… For OSX the easiest way to get tmux
A few days ago I decided to install WinXP on my Intel based iMac, using Boot Camp. Boot Camp assistant worked great, it created a new Boot Camp partition on the hard drive just as planned with a 32 GB partition. Popping in a Dell WinXP SP2 CD (from a