Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How to make a bootable Mavericks install drive (usb, disk on key)

The text below is "copy paste" from liondiskmaker site. version 3 supports the Mavericks installer

Link: http://liondiskmaker.com/ 

DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) is an application built with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, OS X 10.8 and 10.9 to build a bootable drive from Mac OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion Installation or OS X Mavericks Installer program. As soon as you launch the application, it tries to find the OS X Install program with Spotlight. Then, it proposes to build a bootable install disk and make it look as nice as possible. It’s the easiest way to build an OS X Installer in a few clicks !


iMac fan working at full speed ( making noise ) after replacing HDD by SSD


Problem: After replacing the hard disk on my iMac to SSD, the fan/s started to work at full speed and make noise.

Reason:  Replacing the original hard disk breaks the system’s temperature monitoring and the fans will stat to work on full speed.


Solution for Mac OS X:
Install the free software "SSD Fan Control", Find the noisy fan and control it in ‘Manual’ or ‘SMART’ mode.
Don't forget to donate!!!

Link:
http://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl/







Solution for Windows 8 on BOOT CAMP partition: 
Install the free software "Macs Fan Control", Find the noisy fan and control it in ‘Manual’ or ‘SMART’ mode.
Don't forget to donate!!!
Link:
http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control



Wednesday, January 15, 2014

background-position-x and background-position-y aren't cross-browser compatible




Wrong: 
.myStyle{
background-image: url(images/someImage.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position-x: 20px;
background-position-y: 30px;
}


Right:
.myStyle{
background-image: url(images/properties_underline.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:20px 30px;
}

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Android - Saving storage space by creating browser shortcuts instead of installing applications

Simple Idea that I've implemented today after formatting my android phone.
Many websites have apps but they also built HTML sites with responsive design or redirect you to their "m" sub-domain.Installing the site app might give you additional functionally but also will take storage place (+updates + bandwidth + annoying notifications+ background data +++) but if you don't need that functionality then browser shortcuts is the right solution for you.
1- open your mobile browser (I'm using Chrome).
2- go to the requested site.
3- Add the site to your Bookmarks.
4- Open your bookmarks.
5- From the bookmark add the shortcut to your home-screen.
That's it,  now you have a shortcut to the site and you don't need the application. 


linux bulk prefix filenames

  In order to bulk add prefix to filenames  in a directory run the following comnmand for f in * ; do mv -- "$f" "2018-05-24_...