Update 2014-03-12: OS X 10.9.2 seems to have fixed this. A few days ago, I re-enabled iCloud Keychain on my Mac, and since haven’t experienced…
The path less traveled.
Update 2014-03-12: OS X 10.9.2 seems to have fixed this. A few days ago, I re-enabled iCloud Keychain on my Mac, and since haven’t experienced…
Setting the context I run Mail.app on an internet-hosted Mac mini, in order to provide server-side spam filtering and to pre-process my email based on…
Update: Sometimes blogging really pays off. Not 15 minutes after posting this article, someone on Twitter tipped me about a solution—In some recent release of…
We have three Macs at home, which run an assortment of cloud-backup and synchronization apps—including Dropbox, CrashPlan, BitTorrent Sync and Arq. Whenever any one, or…
A few weeks ago, as I reported here on the blog I opened my iPad mini and saw, “iPad is disabled”. In this state, the…
I run Daylite Server on an internet-connect Mac mini, and after upgrading to Mavericks (and OS X Mavericks Server) neither Daylite (running on my MacBook…
My iPad mini seems to have a hardware problem. Frequently, when I activate the device by opening its Smart Cover, I find it in one…
Update — Since writing this article, Everpix has gone out of business, and I’ve moved to Apple’s iCloud Photo Library ecosystem.
I recently migrated my photo management workflow from one based on Aperture, to one based on a file system and the online service, Everpix. This article describes the whys and hows.
I receive my own email on a Mac running OS X Server 10.8, and just resolved a problem related to the creation of a second…
The recent news about the NSA’s access to the data hosted with cloud providers got me re-thinking how I store and access my sensitive documents—and…
BitTorrent Sync is an app/technology that allows multiple computers and devices to share synchronized folders. On my computer, I setup a folder called BTFamily, and…
I get a lot of email that I’m interested in reading, but which I don’t want cluttering up my inbox. In the past, I tried…
Here’s to hoping that with Apple’s forthcoming new iPhones, they’ll drop the anodizing of the outer band (as they seem to have done with the…
Update: Since publishing this article, VMWare reached out and resolved the situation in a way that made me very happy. Be sure to see the details about that at the end of the article.
In March of this year (2013), some colleagues of mine in Berlin called to ask if I could purchase a copy of VMWare Fusion for Mac for them, because the VMWare website would not allow them to purchase the software. Each time they’d try to make the purchase, they’d get an “authorization failed” error.
Having received a new American Express card, I just finished updating the billing details at the *thirteen* online services which periodically charge that card. And…
I discovered this morning that the [Google Authenticator app][1] is broken in iOS 7. While it does display authentication codes, it doesn’t display the associated…
Manual app updating, prior to iOS7, was beneficial to developers as a mechanism to notify their customers that a new version was available[^fn-abuse]. Since Apple…
A couple of days ago, I discovered that my CrashPlan log (in /Library/Logs/CrashPlan/engine_output.log) had gotten huge—over 60GB. Googling, I found this article that describes how…
We have a customer in Germany for whom we developed several Facebook apps used in their business. The apps were associated with the personal Facebook…
Over the past decade, we at Makalu have tended to host everything ourselves. We leased several dedicated servers, hosted all our websites and apps, hosted and managed our own email and operated our own DNS. Recently, we’ve been looking at ways of simplifying.
I have a personal account setup on three different Macs—my own MacBook Air, an iMac that serves as our home server and the kid’s mini.…
Over the years, we at Makalu have tried several web-based customer support services, and have never really found one that worked for us. Until now.
This article shows you how to use a custom domain in place of those ugly, long Dropbox User Content public folder URLs.
Like many people, I’ve long used Skitch to snap, annotate and share screenshots. Sharing involves Skitch uploading the image somewhere, and putting the destination URL on the clipboard for your immediate use.
In addition to Skitch.com, the original product allowed you to specify other upload destinations, including your own FTP or SFTP server. And over time, they added other upload options like WebDAV and Flickr.
Name Mangler 3 for Mac OS X is a great utility for batch renaming of files. Here’s my review.
