BitBar – OSX custom menu bar – running #!/bin/bash
Fix the frustration of needing quick access bash tools in the Finder. BitBar allows for simple creation of bash based plugins, resulting in a custom menu bar. My current usage: … Read More
Tag: OSX
Keyboard Maestro – OSX – new Terminal at Current Finder Location
Multiple ways to get to a folder location in the terminal while browsing something in finder. 1: Open terminal, cd through the chain to get to where you need to … Read More
OSX ClipMenu
source: http://www.clipmenu.com/blog/2014/11/11/clipmenu-1-0-0a1-released/ ****************************************************** *** UPDATE: 09-Oct-2015: *** Works without issues in OSX 10.11 El Capitan ****************************************************** Yosemite ready New ClipMenu is 100% Yosemite ready. It supports Yosemite’s Dark Mode. Download … Read More
FinalCutPro7 AND FinalCutProX – Happy Together (OSX Yosemite)
Once you have FinalCutPro X installed on Yosemite (10.10) – you can no longer install FinalCutPro7. [Same situation for Compressor] The proper workflow would be to install FCP-7 BEFORE FCP-X. … Read More
Firefox – HiDPI monitor scale adjustment (e.g. MacBookPro Retina or other)
No need to a plugin to adjust scaling for HiDPI screens. New Tab (CTRL+T) goto the following URL about:config search using the search bar for “pixel” adjust the Preference Name: … Read More
ext4 file system support on OSX
Two options found for using ext4 drives on OS-X. 1. install a proven driver – not nice if we do not want to install system changes to OS-X. Paragon ExtFS … Read More
rsync – for photo backups (OSX to Ubuntu SMB storage)
Use rsync to incrementally update files on Ubuntu server’s samba SMB share. The SMB is mounted @ /Volumes/PHOTOBAK rsync -avxE –progress –delete /Volumes/photo06-2015/ /Volumes/PHOTOBAK/ OPTIONS USED: -a = –archive // … Read More
Ubuntu SMB share (smbd) for OS-X / Windows clients
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How to Create a Network Share Via Samba Via CLI Install Samba sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install samba Set a password for your user in Samba sudo smbpasswd -a … Read More
OSX Volume Cloning – using asr (Apple Software Restore)
CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) – a great tool – is no longer free !!! Not cool! Especially since OS-X has built in facilities to make the same functionality happen via … Read More
OSX Time Machine to Network Volume
For SnowLeopard 10.6 use: https://anitechtalk.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/time-machine-dns323/ http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20140415132734925 1. MOUNT YOUR NETWORK VOLUME where you want to store the backup bundle, and you have write rights to. 2. Open DISK UTILITY, and … Read More