Category: Software
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Yosemite causing MacBook Air 2013 to crash when connected to Thunderbolt display
My setup is a fairly standard one: 13″ 2013 MacBook Air, which is occasionally, although more often than not, plugged in to a 27″ Thunderbolt Display. I “upgraded” to Yosemite last night. Booted my machine, everything seemed fine. I was downstairs at the time, no Thunderbolt display connected. This morning, plug in to the TB display,…
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Recovering Skype history from TimeMachine backup with Skyperious
It amazes me that Skype chat history is only stored on your local machine It’s just a simple sqlLite db file, located (on a mac at least) in /Users/alex/Library/Application Support/Skype/<username>/main.db Recently, I started fresh on my mac – fresh install of Mavericks, and re-installed all my apps I had a TimeMachine backup anyway, in case…
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One of the many benefits of keeping a git repository inside dropbox
A couple of weeks ago, for a number of reasons, I had polluted my working copy so much, i decided it would be easier to simply blow my cloned repository folder away, and re-clone. So, I deleted the folder, and made a fresh checkout to the same place. Today, I was about to resume work…
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Download emails from GMail in a specific label with GMVault
I recently wanted to download around 20,000 emails from a specific label in my gmail account. To do this, I used GMVault. I’m not going to talk through the basics of setup / using this as it’s already talked about at length on the GMVault site. However, in order to get it to download only…
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Parallels 8 Upgrade – Moving windows in Windows 7 snapping back
I recently upgraded my copy of Parallels desktop from version 7 to version 8. As soon as I had done, I noticed the supposed “improved multi-monitor support” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. If I had a window open, and dragged it to the other monitor (either from external to macbook, or vice…
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MacBook Pro with SSD – Hanging / Crashing when using Windows 7 & Parallels
Just a quick blog to see if anyone else out there is experiencing hanging / crashing when using: Macbook Pro OSX Mountain Lion SSD (256mb Crucial CT064M4SSD1) Parallels – Windows 7 Guest OS Only started noticing the problem since I installed the SSD Every now and then, the whole system will sort of freeze. Won’t respond to…
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View XML in Google Chrome
Sometimes, I need to be able to view an XML document in a browser. While IE supports this natively, you’ll need an extension for that in Chrome. The one I use is XML Tree by Alan Stroop. After installing it, it simply “just works” Viewing any server side XML page displays nice and hierarchically, similar…
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Outlook – Error with PDF Preview Handler for Vista
Up until a few moments ago, I was unable to preview PDF files in emails in Outlook using Windows 7 64bit. The problem is that Adobe have not updated their installer of Adobe PDF reader to allow the correct values to be set in the registry. However, there is a fix. I came across this:…