My setup is a fairly standard one: 13″ 2013 MacBook Air, which is occasionally, although more often than not, plugged in to a 27″ Thunderbolt Display. I “upgraded” to Yosemite last night. Booted my machine, everything seemed fine. I was downstairs at the time, no Thunderbolt display connected. This morning, plug in to the TB display, and disaster… Blacked out...
It amazes me that Skype chat history is only stored on your local machine It’s just a simple sqlLite db file, located (on a mac at least) in /Users/alex/Library/Application Support/Skype/<username>/main.db Recently, I started fresh on my mac – fresh install of Mavericks, and re-installed all my apps I had a TimeMachine backup anyway, in case I needed to either roll back, or get...
A couple of weeks ago, for a number of reasons, I had polluted my working copy so much, i decided it would be easier to simply blow my cloned repository folder away, and re-clone. So, I deleted the folder, and made a fresh checkout to the same place. Today, I was about to resume work on a feature I’d started; you guessed it, around 2 weeks ago. It was on a separate branch – a branch, which...
I recently wanted to download around 20,000 emails from a specific label in my gmail account. To do this, I used GMVault. I’m not going to talk through the basics of setup / using this as it’s already talked about at length on the GMVault site. However, in order to get it to download only the mails in a specific label, you will need to do a custom sync. The command I used was this: gmvault sync...
I recently upgraded my copy of Parallels desktop from version 7 to version 8. As soon as I had done, I noticed the supposed “improved multi-monitor support” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. If I had a window open, and dragged it to the other monitor (either from external to macbook, or vice versa) it snapped back! See video: Update Parallels have now released a hot fix which...
Just a quick blog to see if anyone else out there is experiencing hanging / crashing when using: Macbook Pro OSX Mountain Lion SSD (256mb Crucial CT064M4SSD1) Parallels – Windows 7 Guest OS Only started noticing the problem since I installed the SSD Every now and then, the whole system will sort of freeze. Won’t respond to mouse / keyboard. Freeze lasts around 10-30 seconds, then...
Sometimes, I need to be able to view an XML document in a browser. While IE supports this natively, you’ll need an extension for that in Chrome. The one I use is XML Tree by Alan Stroop. After installing it, it simply “just works” Viewing any server side XML page displays nice and hierarchically, similar to IE / Firefox However, to enable opening of a local XML file, you will need to explicitly...
Up until a few moments ago, I was unable to preview PDF files in emails in Outlook using Windows 7 64bit.
The problem is that Adobe have not updated their installer of Adobe PDF reader to allow the correct values to be set in the registry.
However, there is a fix.
I came across this:
It worked great!