Ramblings and Thoughts
Networking, Computers, Life
One annoying capability of Chrome on OSX is that it defaults to a “Chrome” Specific Print Dialog Box instead of the system one. I finally found the way to reset this behavior and force Chrome to default to the system dialog. Open a terminal window and do the following: defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -bool true
A lot of people ask what the proper way of setting up the different versions of Python on a brand new Mac. After discussing it with people, this pretty much sums it up. http://python-guide-pt-br.readthedocs.io/en/latest/starting/install/osx/ Install HomeBrew $ /usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” NOTE: When I tried this on my home MAC, I didn’t have …
When you embed a YouTube video in WordPress, sometimes you don’t want Youtube to suggest other videos. YouTube allows you to manually turn off related videos when embedding in WordPress. Simply add ?rel=0 at the end of your video URL like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOOy1tWBCg?rel=0 Since we have appended the URL with ?rel=0, it fetches an embed …
I have been running into an annoying issue with Quicken 2016. My bank sometimes stops communicating with Quicken and I can’t see any downloaded transactions. The issue is that Quicken doesn’t prompt with any errors or messages. Instead we connect succesfully to the bank, but no transactions appear. The problem, according to Quicken, is that …
Every now and then, my Windows 10 Guest running on VMWare Fusion stops sharing files with the host machine. It seems that a Windows Update breaks this functionality. After reinstalling VMFusion, I needed to find another fix. After searching through the VM Users Forums I found the problem: The issue is caused by Microsoft upgrades …
It seems like Crashplan all of a sudden stops communicating with the the Cloud. Nothing solves the problem except reinstalling the software. Before you reinstall, this is the process to delete the existing installation. Open the Finder. Press Command-Shift-G A dialog box appears: Go to the folder. Paste this text into the dialog box: Installed for …
Sometimes it is useful to PDF something on the screen and send it to an alternative application like Omnifocus. For example, if I get an email receipt in email, and I want to print this out, I would like to save the email as a PDF and then automatically send in my email to my …
After Some Debugging and Troubleshooting Quicken, they told me about a key combination that will show you the size of your data file. If you go to the Help -> About Quicken and hold down the Shift key as you click on it, you will get a display prompt that shows the size of your …
Sometimes you may want to add a blank space to the OSX Dock to better organize applications. From the terminal window, you can do: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{“tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’ killall Dock Your desktop will go black for a few seconds and close the dock. It will then reappear with a blank space on the …
It seems like there is an issue with over 1 million files or the backup size if over 1TB. As a result, CrashPlan may be running out of memory on the computer. By default, CrashPlan is only allowed to access 1024 MB of memory (regardless of how much is available on the computer). When the …