I have been doing some research with GraalVM and I noticed that RC14 brings an Info.plist inside it’s contents folder. That’s a nice thing to have, as it automatically registers it if you unzip it into /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines as a JDK 8 implementation, but a nasty surprise when using /usr/libexec/java_home -v1.8 to configure your JAVA_HOME, which […]
Introduction In January 2012 i bought a 27″ iMac 12,2 with a Intel Core i5 at 2,7Ghz which should have been a pretty decent and fast machine back then. The RAM can be easily upgraded in this thing which i did already back then to 16Gb for a fraction of the price Apple wants. The […]
Here’s a list of things you can ALT+Click (Option key ⌥ + left mouse button) in Mac OS X: ALT+Click on the WiFi icon in the menubar gives you detailed information about your selected WiFi network ALT+Click on the volume icon in the menubar lets you quickly select audio input and output device ALT+Click on […]
To get somewhat more detailed CPU information on your Mac than the system profiler shows, use the following command: sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_stringsysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
Recently i managed to screw up iMessages and FaceTime on my phone. Well, not exactly i screwed up, but Apple did. Some months back i changed my Apple ID but kept the old email address as verified other address in my Apple account. I changed all iCloud settings (Sharing etc.) on all Apple devices because […]