While Windows comes with the UK Extended keyboard layout and only needs a very simple adjustment to add the German ß letter, macOS doesn’t seem to have the layout at all. Sure, there are Apple’s ideas of the “perfect” British keyboard layout, namely “British” and “British – PC”. But neither one matches the actual UK… Read More »
Several years ago, I had a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch for a while. I’ve turned that into a D2 Delta watch to unlock all possible features. During that time, I also switched from my beloved BlackBerry KEY2 Android phone to an iPhone. And as a former fan of Google Health, I liked the way… Read More »
Cardo Updater puts the main binary cardo-updater into /usr/local/ and registers this as a LaunchDaemon with the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cardosystems.cardo-updater.plist. After killing all cardo-updater processes and removing both files, the updater is gone.
If you have a MacBook Pro A1286 (15.4″, Late-2008 until Mid-2012) and want to replace the battery, you must be aware of the specific battery in your device. In 2011, for some reason, Apple decided to switch from the battery model A1321 (73 Wh) to model A1382 (77.5 Wh). While the form-factor stayed the same,… Read More »
Some hotkeys to hold when powering on the Mac:
Generate JSDoc file for your IDE To get auto-completion for the Titanium framework, you have to let your IDE know of all available methods and properties. Most IDEs can do this by parsing a JavaScript file. If you add JSDoc tags to it, you will even have descriptions, parameter hints, etc. For more information about… Read More »
iPhone Android (esp. Nexus One) It’s from Apple. It’s NOT from Apple. (or: It’s from Google.) can change keyboard layout on the fly keyboard language related to GUI language (not independently configurable!), but different input methods (not only keyboards) downloadable/switchable on the fly ~150.000 Apps (most are gimmicks though) ~30.000 Apps and growing, some well-known… Read More »
AirVideo is a Client/Server-Mediaplayer, which allows you to stream videos directly from your PC to your iPhone. Its server software started as Windows-/Mac-only but now there’s also a Linux server module available, too. All details are explained in their user forums. Compile the special FFmpeg under Ubuntu Autostart AirVideoServer To autostart AirVideoServer upon bootup, you… Read More »
Emojis is the Japanese term for emoticons. Every mobile phone in the Japanese area has a fixed set of emoticons included and they are all compatible between different manufacturers of mobile phones. Apple chose to include them as well, but didn’t use the defacto-standard encoding for them but decided to encode them in the private… Read More »
iStat is an app that shows performance statistics of different machines. I compiled their iStat Server on my x86_64 machine and made a little DEB package. Download: istatd_0.5.4_x86_64.deb I also uploaded it to my PPA at launchpad.net. (If you own a Linksys NSLU2, you might want iStat Server (ARM).)