My wife accidentally dropped her Macbook Pro off the sofa and broke the screen. Amazingly the computer was still running but she could no longer interact with it because the screen was completely blank. She was just finishing some work and didn’t have a backup. I think that the best thing to do in this … Read more
I wanted to clear my Apple Map search history because it was auto-completing the wrong things. However, it isn’t very obvious how to clear your Apple Map search history. Here is how I cleared it: 1 – Open the Apple Maps app. 2 – Click into the search bar at the top. 3 – Click … Read more
Apple Mac OS X is a brilliant OS but unfortunately it’s missing a good image viewer. In comparison, Windows has Preview and Ubuntu has the Gnome Image Viewer both of which are great. I did some research and the image browser i found was Lyn Image Browser. I like it so much… I thought I … Read more
I use source control while developing software. Apple’s OSX creates .DS_Stores files in any folder that you browse with Finder. These are normally hidden but they obviously aren’t ignored by version control which is designed track everything including hidden files. I could add them to the .ignore files in both Mercurial or Git – but … Read more
I’ve moved from Ubuntu to Apple Mac OSX and like to use Firefox. However, rather annoyingly the Firefox spell checker doesn’t appear to work on Apple by default. Bizarrely, it doesn’t highlight any incorrect spellings. I found that the only way to fix it was to add another dictionary to Firefox. Here is how I did … Read more
If you have migrated from Linux to OSX… you might well be missing ssh-copy-id. Frankly, the easier way to do this is to install the Brew repository / package manager for Mac and then install ssh-copy-id on your Mac in one command. Install Brew (if you don’t already have this awesome tool!). Then simply.. Job … Read more