Category: mac osx
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MacOS tip of the day: Preview redact and combine
Yesterday I was preparing my taxes, and wanted to deduct my donation to the WikiMedia foundation. I couldn’t find an actual receipt, but I did have my bank statement, so I decided to just black out the other purchases. After I put a black box on them, Preview gave me a popup saying that the…
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Photos, EXIF, IPTC oh my!
Today I wanted to make a post on my blog with a bunch of pictures. I used my Canon DSLR over the weekend, and I imported all the pictures into the Photos app on my Mac. My normal workflow is to first go through all the pictures and choose the best, which is usually somewhere…
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MacOS tip of the day: Dictionary
If you’re like me, you find yourself looking up words in the dictionary fairly frequently. For me, this is particularly true, since I am an American living in Germany, and even though I speak German quite well, there are few days that go by where I don’t need to look up a word or two.…
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MacOS updates are slow
I remember a time 10 or 15 years ago when you could install a system update on your Mac without rebooting. I always chuckled at the Windows users who seemingly had to reboot every time they installed a new program, let alone a system update. I don’t remember exactly when Macs started requiring reboots for…
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Why doesn’t Mac update standard UNIX utilities?
I am currently teaching a course on programming for linguists. We are using python, but for the first few classes, I have been going over some standard UNIX utilities like cd, ls and such, plus using regular expressions with grep and sed. I actually don’t use sed that much. I tend to reach for perl,…