Speed Up Time Machine
Posted in Apple, Computing on April 5th, 2022 No Comments »
Disable throttling of low-priority background I/O, then re-enable it. sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1
Posted in Apple, Computing on April 5th, 2022 No Comments »
Disable throttling of low-priority background I/O, then re-enable it. sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1
Posted in Apple on July 2nd, 2021 1 Comment »
Code on GitHub To get the old tab bar on Safari for macOS 12, create/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Safari.plisthttps://t.co/1fBPy5UXnmand reboot. pic.twitter.com/7giZ6y8XpD — Zhuowei Zhang (@zhuowei) June 15, 2021
Posted in Apple on December 9th, 2019 No Comments »
Kinda wish we had something like this for Catalina… My blog is 17 years old tomorrow.
Posted in Apple on November 23rd, 2019 No Comments »
Posted in Apple on October 5th, 2018 1 Comment »
In trying to troubleshoot my two-month-old MacBook Pro with TouchBar (2018)1, I tried booting into Single User Mode. This had previously worked, but for some reason, it now boots right through it. The text appears on the screen, small like always, and then I get the progress bar and the computer prompts me to log […]
Posted in Apple on March 2nd, 2017 No Comments »
I have to reset SpamSieve - my corpus is so old and so weighted toward what spam used to be that it's not as effective as it can/should be now, so I thought I'd do this one last time. Filtered Mail 500,274 Good Messages 707,627 Spam Messages (59%) 154 Spam Messages Per Day SpamSieve Accuracy […]
Posted in Apple on January 10th, 2016 1 Comment »
I should probably do a better job of marking false positives and negatives, but I do maybe half of the time. I do have to look into why my Penn-State Behrend email always seems to go to spam, though. 🙂 Those are responsible for about 1-3 of the false positives each day. Filtered Mail 454,700 […]
Posted in Apple on January 9th, 2016 No Comments »
It's now been many, many years, and many, many OS X upgrades, and I still can't get past a problem that's plagued me: minimized Finder windows will appear in the Dock after a restart, but then "disappear" when I un-minimize them. Only killing the Finder (with them out of the Dock) works. I've tried many, […]
Posted in Apple on April 30th, 2015 2 Comments »
Just some random thoughts as I use the Apple Watch on Day #1. The "remote control" only works to take pictures? WTF? Why can't it stop and start recording a video? What kind of stupid decision is that? Taking screenshots is nice, but honestly… what is there to really screenshot? I have nobody to whom […]
Posted in Apple on January 24th, 2015 1 Comment »
Six Colors: How I rip DVDs and Blu-rays
Posted in Apple on January 23rd, 2015 No Comments »
I don't know how I missed this, but Craig calls it his "magnum opus" on the Terminal: The Terminal • furbo.org.
Posted in Apple on January 21st, 2015 No Comments »
I think Apple is still on the high-est ground of any other company, but they have lost the "high" ground they once occupied. Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org and his follow-up: What it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.org. And a few days later, The Functional […]
Posted in Apple on January 20th, 2015 1 Comment »
Is there a great utility out there which will easily allow you to watermark a video on OS X? I'd like to watermark some video before uploading them to YouTube. Obviously I can do this in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, but I'm looking at more of a batch utility. The videos are .avi files […]
Posted in Apple on January 14th, 2015 2 Comments »
http://magnet.crowdcafe.com Has anyone used Window Magnet for OS X? $4.99 seems like a good price. I kind of like my window management without it, but… you never know, maybe this is better? Too bad there's no demo. 😛
Posted in Apple on January 7th, 2015 No Comments »
Still waiting…. My name is Erik. My wife's name is Carey. I don't even have a "Carrie" in my phone's contacts, yet… that's how Siri insists on spelling it. So much for the "contextual" suggestions and autocorrections. I can't remember the last time I wanted to type "Erik" or "Carrie."