Category: Macintosh

How to sync Omnifocus-Clients via webDAV and GMX

I recently thought about switching from my local sync via Bonjour over to webDAV, to be able to sync with my OmniFocus on my home-desk even, if there are problems with local network. I did a quick search and found out that my e-Mail-Provider GMX was offering a webdav-service. So here ist how to set up you Omni-Focus both on iPhone and Desktop to do the switch.1. Sync Omni-Focus for iPhone2. Sync Omni-Focus on your desktop3. Open up your Finder and hit CMD + K and connect to your GMX-Server at the adress: https://mediacenter.gmx.net and hit connect. My machine was … Continue reading “How to sync Omnifocus-Clients via webDAV and GMX”

OS X Mail can’t make notes

Recently I had problems with my notes, which are synced via iTunes into my iPhone and Mail. I couldn’t make any new notes as well as no syncing too. What was wrong? Recently I was doing a cleaning of my fonts folder and obviously deactivated one font to much. Reactivating the font MarkerFelt and everything was back to normal! Alternative: Go to Mail Preferences and look for the tab Font & Color and chose a different font for your notes. (which is what I did, as I didn’t like the marker-font anyway.)

Help Photoshop won’t start up.

When I came back from vacation Photoshop would not start up wie the error “An unexpected and unrecoverable problem has occured. Photoshop will now exit.” Yikes! Unrecoverable that’s bad. The problem was peculiar since I had left without any signs of problems. Finder was sometimes asking me for the permission to delete files that were on my deskop and other places. Onyx and repairing file permissions brought no bettering, so I took a look at my Library-Folder. During a profile-migration I had granted another user access to my home-folder and exactly that was causing the problems. I revoked permissions for … Continue reading “Help Photoshop won’t start up.”

Merge two folders

HELP!I need to merge the content of several large folders on my mac.Filemanagement with Windows and Mac OS X differs, when it comes to folder replacement.Under Windows if you have two folders with the same name, the windows explorer will warn you, that files within that folder will be replaced with the ones you just dragged in. As the result, you will have a folder containing all the files form you source-folder accompanied by the ones in your target-folder, that were not present in the source-folder. WATCH OUT!Under OS X, if you drag a source-folder on a folder containing an … Continue reading “Merge two folders”

GO SANE

Today I’m going to introduce a way how to connect a image capture device, which is not natively supported by OS X, to your mac. The Problem: I wanted to connect a rather old scanner – a HP Scanjet 3300C to my Macbook Pro. However HP doesnot deliver any current drivers to connect it to my mac. The solution is an open source interface called sane which delivers connectivity to many many image capturing devices and also enables Linux to capture images from your digital camera or scanner. Basically the sane interface sits between your operating system and your connected … Continue reading “GO SANE”