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...