How to Flush your local DNS (Mac, Windows, Linux)
Flush DNS – Sometimes we do run into network issues, and sometimes this is caused by a corrupted DNS cache on your computer. In this article a quick and easy overview on how to flush the DNS cache on...
View ArticleHow to Download YouTube videos
In this article, I’ll show how you can easily download a video from YouTube on Windows, macOS or Linux. All you need is the Free VideoLAN VLC and your Web Browser. So no need for any sketchy third...
View ArticleBeat Saber – Custom Song Renamer
For those familiar with Beat Saber mods: Beat Saber is the most fun when you add your own songs. Unfortunately, when you download some of these custom songs, for example from beatsaver.com or...
View ArticleHow to create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate
Sometimes we need a Certificate so we can encrypt and decrypt network communication, for example for all kinds of network devices (eg. NAS, IoT devices, local web server, etc). Unfortunately, for some...
View ArticleMacOS X Image Resizer – Big Sur Update
My little script to resize images straight from Finder, and optionally attach them right away to a new email, has been updated to fix some issues that surfaced with the release of Big Sur. This version...
View ArticleForum Account Activation issue has been resolved!
Unfortunately, the registration at our forum didn’t quite work as hoped. A small bug made it that new users would not get an activation email – which makes it hard to complete registration of course. I...
View ArticleMovieScanner2 – Get an overview of Video File Details
MovieScanner2, the successor of MovieScanner, is a small utility which analyzes your video file and stored the detected streams in a database. The detected streams include all embedded video streams,...
View ArticleHow to use Email Templates in Apple Mail (macOS)
In certain scenarios, it can be a timesaver, and avoid mistakes, to have one or more templates for common emails. Unfortunately, Apple Mail, that comes with macOS, doesn’t have a template mechanism …...
View ArticleIP Rating codes for LED strips
Having been tinkering with LED strips for quite some years now, I do occasionally get the question: “What do the IP ratings mean?”. There is a short answer for that question: It indicates its...
View ArticleXTerm Color Cheat Sheet
For those who need a cheat sheet on XTerm colors, here a quick and short reference overview. These colors should work for anything that supports the XTerm color-scheme, so this includes several...
View ArticleHow to Customize Z-Shell Prompt (zsh – macOS, Linux)
When using Terminal under a recent macOS version, you’ll most likely will be using Z-Shell (zsh) – a quite common Shell found under Linux as well. This used to be Bash, but Apple moved to Z-Shell...
View ArticleBatch Image Conversion with macOS Preview
Every now and then I find myself in need of converting an image to another format, especially when the application I’m working with does not support the file format I have at hand. Recently I find...
View ArticleHow to find the IP Address of your Default Gateway
While exploring a suggestion of a visitor here, I wanted to find a solid way to retrieve the IP Address of the Default Gateway in a given network. The most common reason is probably so you can access...
View ArticleConnectMeNow v4 – Mounting Network Shares Quick and Easy on a Mac
As a macOS fan I keep being surprised that Apple still hasn’t implemented some obvious improvements, like a dual pane Finder or … an easier way to mount network shares. The latter is what ConnectMeNow...
View ArticleminiWOL v3 – Compact and easy to use Wake-on-LAN utility
miniWOL is a small and efficient macOS application designed to send Wake-on-LAN (WoL) signals, allowing users to remotely power up their network devices over the local network. Tailored for both home...
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