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Quickliy Open a Safari Page in Chrome with Keyboard Maestro
16/01/13 22:00 OS X
Here is a simple Keyboard Maestro macro, which opens the actual webpage in Chrome, and another one, which closes Chrome and switches back to Safari. This is e.g. handy, if you want to check a Flash-based webpage and Safari is your main browser, but you don’t want to install Flash. Read More...
'iPhone Settings Mind Map' is browsable online now
14/12/12 02:10 iOS
IdeasOnCanvas, the people behind MindNode Pro, made my mind map part of their MindNode Online Service Beta, which is a planned, free addition to MindNode. Thank You for that :-)
You can now view/browse the mind map here, or just click 'iPhone Settings Mind Map'’in the menu bar. You can search within the mind map for a word by pressing CMD+F (or CTRL+F on Windows Machines). It is still a beta, but it seems to work nicely.
To download the searchable PDF, click here.
To download a JPG file, click here.
Attention: Viewing the PDF with Adobe PDF Reader on Windows is a bit buggy. Try to adjust the Pixel/Inch settings to see the map. Click here to read a bit more on that topic.
Feel free to leave a comment, or to subscribe to my RSS feed :-) Read More...
You can now view/browse the mind map here, or just click 'iPhone Settings Mind Map'’in the menu bar. You can search within the mind map for a word by pressing CMD+F (or CTRL+F on Windows Machines). It is still a beta, but it seems to work nicely.
To download the searchable PDF, click here.
To download a JPG file, click here.
Attention: Viewing the PDF with Adobe PDF Reader on Windows is a bit buggy. Try to adjust the Pixel/Inch settings to see the map. Click here to read a bit more on that topic.
Feel free to leave a comment, or to subscribe to my RSS feed :-) Read More...
Automatically Backup Calendar to Dropbox with Keyboard Maestro
12/12/12 01:20 Automation OS X
Everybody heard (e.g. here) of syncing errors, data loss, doubled entries with Calendar and iCloud. But even if iCloud gets more reliable one day, it is nice to have an additional, up-to-date backup of Your Calendar data. Of cause Time Machine does the job, too. But I like having an off-side in-the-cloud backup and I like Dropbox (referral link). Maybe there are other ways to automatically do the backup, but on a quick web research I didn’t find anything for my needs. So I created a time triggered Keyboard Maestro workflow, which does the job. Read More...
Automatically Backup Contacts to Dropbox with Keyboard Maestro
12/12/12 01:19 Automation OS X
This article is about automatically backing up a Contacts app archive. The whole workflow is very similar to Automatically Backup Calendar to Dropbox with Keyboard Maestro, so I won’t go into details. Read More...
Push Tabs from Mobile Safari to Safari on the Mac
I was always frustrated about the way in which iOS and OS X handle iCloud tabs. If I want to open all (maximum) eight tabs from Safari on the iPhone on my Mac, it takes 24 taps. That is very uncomfortable and takes some time.
So - luck me - just when my frustration got very high, macstories.net released an interesting article about automation on iOS, which inspired for my solution.
And so, with the help of Pythonista (and it's creator in the forums), and Hazel on the Mac, I can push tabs from Safari on the iPhone to Safari on my Mac. Read More...
So - luck me - just when my frustration got very high, macstories.net released an interesting article about automation on iOS, which inspired for my solution.
And so, with the help of Pythonista (and it's creator in the forums), and Hazel on the Mac, I can push tabs from Safari on the iPhone to Safari on my Mac. Read More...
iPhone Settings Mind Map
11/12/12 01:25 iOS
Update 2: People with view problems under Windows can try to change an Adobe Reader setting. The Reader shows a strange behavior: I don’t know the exact english settings name, because I only have a german copy of Windows and Adobe Reader, but it should be something like:
When I change this setting (from originally 110 Pixels/inch), the PDF works. But if I reopen the file with Adobe Reader, the page is blank again and agin, I have to change the Pixel/Inch settings to something different. This is strange, but sorry, I don’t know another solution.
Alternatively you could try Foxit PDF Reader, It opens the PDF by default.
Update 1: There is a problem viewing the PDF on Windows with Adobe Reader; it shows an empty file (viewing in Chrome works). I’m working on a solution.
I made an outline which contains all iPhone 5 iOS 6.0.1 settings from the iPhone itself and from the preinstalled apps. I did this with the iPhone setup with English as the OS language and German for time formats and so on. I tried to write everything down, but I couldn't write down some things, like Japanese characters and such. The mind map should be complete for about 98% or more.
Edit -> Presets -> Page View (left side bar) -> Resolution -> System Default 96 Pixel/Inch
When I change this setting (from originally 110 Pixels/inch), the PDF works. But if I reopen the file with Adobe Reader, the page is blank again and agin, I have to change the Pixel/Inch settings to something different. This is strange, but sorry, I don’t know another solution.
Alternatively you could try Foxit PDF Reader, It opens the PDF by default.
Update 1: There is a problem viewing the PDF on Windows with Adobe Reader; it shows an empty file (viewing in Chrome works). I’m working on a solution.
I made an outline which contains all iPhone 5 iOS 6.0.1 settings from the iPhone itself and from the preinstalled apps. I did this with the iPhone setup with English as the OS language and German for time formats and so on. I tried to write everything down, but I couldn't write down some things, like Japanese characters and such. The mind map should be complete for about 98% or more.
Read on to see the full size image.
Read More...Launch actions for iOS
Inspired by some launch center apps I thought of how some (often used) actions could get speed up on an iPhone/iPad. By pressing the home button twice, you would see the lock screen with some slide to launch action sliders.
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Multi-user login concept for iOS
Not being an analyst I still want to predict, that, sooner or later, there will be a possibility to use Your iGadget with multiple users. Actually this is possible to, but all users have to share the same apps and worse, the apps’ settings. So the actual version of iOS, which is iOS 5, and it seems the next version of iOS (iOS 6 then) will have no true multi-user support like on desktop computers.
The necessity of multi-user support has been discussed on multiple blogs and websites. I completely agree with their point of view, but I think multi-user support is quite more useful on an iPad than on an iPhone. While iPads often are used as living room surfing, reading and media consumption devices by a whole family or household, iPhones are more personal devices and most people don’t share them. So it wouldn’t be bad at all, if future iPhones wouldn’t have multi-user support. But iPads as post-PC-devices which want to take over many of PC’s functions need multi-user support.
So, how would I implement multi-user support to an iOS device? I don’t know, because I am not much of an programmer, but I have an idea of how the lock screen (or log screen) could look like. Read More...
The necessity of multi-user support has been discussed on multiple blogs and websites. I completely agree with their point of view, but I think multi-user support is quite more useful on an iPad than on an iPhone. While iPads often are used as living room surfing, reading and media consumption devices by a whole family or household, iPhones are more personal devices and most people don’t share them. So it wouldn’t be bad at all, if future iPhones wouldn’t have multi-user support. But iPads as post-PC-devices which want to take over many of PC’s functions need multi-user support.
So, how would I implement multi-user support to an iOS device? I don’t know, because I am not much of an programmer, but I have an idea of how the lock screen (or log screen) could look like. Read More...