Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Building and sharing Google bike (and other) route maps using waypoint defined computed routes

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I used to do bicycle maps using Google’s Map Creator / “My Maps” tools, but for me it was a frustrating process. I never quite got the hang ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Airmail 2, Postbox and Mailbox for OS X access to Gmail -> I'm back to mail.app

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I think OS X Mail.app for Yosemite is a pretty good Gmail client. The one big problem is that one must download the entire archive, though t...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

So you want to actually restore from that Time Capsule backup? Do you feel lucky punk?

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Yeah, I know he actually said “Do I feel lucky?”. But you get the point. By now even the most hard core Apple apologist  must have moments...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

How to view OS X hidden (unix) folders using TextWrangler

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I thought there was a way to view hidden OS X Unix folders like bin, etc, home, Network, private, sbin .vol etc using Bare Bones Software...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Photo slide show screensaver on Mac - network share and Yosemite's reversion to default. A workaround.

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I have never been happy with how OS X handles anything to do with file shares, I think Windows does a much better job. Which, if you know a...

iOS 8.4: Spotlight not showing Bing results? Your email index may be corrupted.

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Recently Spotlight stopped offering me Bing results (or Wikipedia). Power cycling the phone didn’t help. I tried the usual Spotlight fix in ...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Facebook event sharing - July 2015

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Facebook Events (calendar items) exist in some sort of Facebook twilight zone. Neither completely abandoned, nor entirely useful. You can, f...