Gordon's Tech
Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary. macOS and iOS mostly.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Aperture: How can I tell my videos from my stills?
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Is that a blurry still to delete or is it a precious video? Aperture can store both video in addition to still images, but there’s only one ...
Friday, January 23, 2015
Make Gmail less painful for obsessives: set Promotions to "Read" status.
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You know who you are. When you see a number badge you gotta clear it. When you open Gmail and see “5 updates” in Promotions you have to get ...
Sunday, January 18, 2015
AVI video files in 2014 on the Mac -- you should probably convert them while you can.
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In the process of slogging through an unexpected iMovie migration , I came across some old AVI files that iMovie 2013 basically swallows and...
I migrate from iMovie whatever to iMovie 10/2013 whatever and of course it hurts
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Dilbert, 4/14/94 In retrospect, things started to go wrong for Apple 9 years ago. Back then Apple’s iPhoto, iMovie and iTunes were all run...
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Wanted - A tool to chop Pinboard HTML export into Spotlight searchable HTML files
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Pinboard provides a nice range of export options including XML, JSON and HTML. The HTML export uses the ancient Netscape bookmark file sta...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
dd, the Mac OS X (Unix) native solution to hard drive testing, cloning, drive recovery ...
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App.net’s gaelicwizard posted this approach to hard drive testing back in Oct 2013 . I’d lost it for a while but just found it again today...
Monday, January 05, 2015
Aperture Tip: ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ will change focus to selected image
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You select an image in Aperture, one among thousands. Now scroll up. How do you get back to your selected image? ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ will change focus ...
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