Mac in General – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Apple is not your friend

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

I like Apple, but I don't trust it. Some of the behavior of the iOS serves Apple much more than their users.

Image: Meme.
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Recording Webbrowser Audio/Video on a Mac

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

A short guide on how to record web-browser audio/video on the Mac.
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Looking at something different on your screen

2021-01-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

An idea for a time-out, when still sitting at the desk.
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Syspolicyd, Periodically High CPU Load, Reading Huge Amounts of Data, on Mac Big Sur (and likely Catalina as well)

2020-12-02 | Reading time: 2 minutes

After installing Big Sur, I noticed a periodically high CPU load, and later found out that huge amounts of data (2.8 TB, yep, *T*B) were read from the HDD within a short amount of time. Turns out, it's very very likely some unsigned .pkg files from gog.com were to blame.
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Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning

2020-07-03 | Reading time: 6 minutes

OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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Apple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension Program

2020-02-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Even if your warranty is expired, for some problems Apple offers an extended program that covers your — otherwise expensive — Apple product repair.
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Keynote Recipe Book Sample Page

2018-12-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A page from my keynote recipe book.
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Semi-intelligent Cookbooks with Numbers and Keynote

2018-09-18 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Using Numbers (for ingredient calculation) and Keynote (for book creation) work really well for creating semi-intelligent cookbooks.
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