Updated 2018: Just download Etcher which works like a charm. Although the below still works! Writing SDCard images using my Macbook took way to long, up to half an hour to write one simple Raspberry Pi image to a SDCard. I just did what many instructions told me to do. You will probably recognize this command: dd if=/path/to/image/file.img of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m […]
Create bootable USB stick
I had to create an USB Bootdisk running DOS and preferably using my Mac. I found this great article explaining how to do this. It recommends two different tools of which I tried UNetbootin on the Mac and it created the bootdisk with FreeDos.
Rsync backup Mac OS X to Synology
I use Apple’s Time Machine to make a regular backup of my Macbook. This seems to work okay, but so now and then it needs to redo the complete backup to remain reliable…. That sounds a little unreliable to me. Because most of my data is on my Synology NAS or in the Cloud like […]
Yoink – Drag and Drop thingy for Mac OS
Yoink is a nice little app I found in the appstore and I want to share with you. This app shows a little sidebar when you need it, which is when you want to drag and drop something on your Mac. This is one of the apps you didn’t knew you need it. Having many applications […]
Plugable USB 3.0 UGA Display adapter
Today I’ve received the Plugable USB 3.0 UGA multiple display adapter. Using this device you can add multiple displays to Windows systems and also Apple Mac OS X systems. Mac OS X support is added recently so most of the sites still state that only Windows is supported. It can connect to DVI or HDMI […]
Lightroom Catalog Sync using Dropbox sel...
A while ago I wrote a post about how I use Dropbox to sync my Adobe Lightroom catalog across multiple computers. This worked fine until I started using a Mac OS X Lion system, actually at the moment of writing I want to sync between two Mac OS X Lion systems. (The next section contains […]
Use an iPad to present with a projector
Within a couple of weeks I will do a presentation on Projectmanager 2.0 within our company. Because this is all about a new way of working together and also about using new online Web 2.0 applications, Social Media and devices like smartphones and tablets, I want to do the presentation from my iPad. A quick […]