Shell scripts to get keyboard and battery values. Run it on a schedule somehow. I like a GUI so I use ‘Run Shell Script’ in Automator and schedule them with a daily ‘custom script’ event in iCal.
Read detailsI was recently given a 2015 i7 Macbook Pro, 16GB ram/500GB SSD, with a huge LCD leak covering almost the entire screen. A replacement screen is about £500 and a risky repair which may or may not work, plus I don’t need another laptop, so I decided to give it a whirl as an HA…
Read detailsI’ve enjoyed 6 months of well-behaved Siri on my iPhone X and then suddenly today I found that Siri couldn’t communicate with any HomeKit devices (Siri’s reply to anything HomeKit-related was “Hmm I don’t see anything connected”. Cue a fair bit of tedious trouble-shooting, I found that step 3 of this iMore article fixes it. The basic idea…
Read detailsI noticed today that BarTunes was no longer in my menu bar. Launching it caused a brief flicker in the menu bar but the app wouldn’t launch. Who knows how long it’s been gone? It’s one of those apps I use a lot, but only on some days (music days as opposed to radio days).…
Read detailsSo I had just exported a MySQL database, and immediately re-imported it to the same server into a new database. The import failed with an error.
Read detailsI’ve discovered that my previous attempt to automate Radium doesn’t entirely work if my password-protected screensaver was running. It seems that since OS X 10.9 disabling the password that way somehow causes the keyboard to remain ‘captured’ by ScreenSaverEngine
Read detailsLaunching the OS X radio app Radium automatically, including the ability to select AirPlay speakers as necessary.
Read detailsEvery morning at 6am run Doug’s excellent Block Party script to create a playlist of 4 and 5 star songs from random albums.
Read detailsAfter months of turning my Philips Hue lights on and off using Siri, I found myself unable to set a scene today. This fixed it for me: – kill the Hue app on iPhone – go to settings -> HomeKit – click Edit and delete the home named “Home” – start Hue app – go to…
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