Have you tried taking a screenshot in your Mac and are annoyed at having to wait for the floating thumbnail – in other words you wait for 5 seconds before the screenshot becomes a file?[…]
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Tag: Tricks
Persistent “Previous Recipients” in Mac Mail
Persistent “Previous Recipients” in Mac Mail
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iPad keyboard – Caps Lock key changes language
I have been experiencing this issue for some time now… I have an external keyboard for my iPad and every time that I hit the Caps Lock key, instead of locking the capital letters in[…]
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Anaconda – Guarenteed Python packages via Conda and Conda-Forge
Anaconda – Guarenteed Python packages via Conda and Conda-Forge
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Installing Spark 1.6.1 on a Mac with Scala 2.11
Installing Spark 1.6.1 on a Mac with Scala 2.11
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Opening old Keynote/Pages files in new versions
Opening old Keynote/Pages files in new versions
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Using curl to download a shortened URL – Dropbox, bit.ly
I was in the middle of an introductory workshop for Data Science at General Assembly and I was talking about using command line instructions to facilitate the manipulation of files and folders. We covered some[…]
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Apple Notes and Gmail Notes
I accidentally ended up creating some notes in the Gmail Notes inside my iDevice only to be completely confounded by the fact I could not see them in my desktop. I tried to find some[…]
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Enable NTFS read and write in your Mac
I was confronted with an old issue, that had not been an issue for a while: writing to an external hard drive that was formatted with Windows (NTFS) from my mac. I used to have[…]
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An alternative way to reduce the size of PDF in a mac
I am sure you, like me, have had the need to reduce the file size of a PDF. Take for example the occasional need of sending a PDF by email just to find out that[…]
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