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watson Reference

The content details the use of the watson command-line tool for tracking work hours on Oracle Enterprise Linux and macOS. It provides commands for recording sessions, restarting projects, stopping ongoing sessions, managing projects, and displaying past sessions. Sample session durations and project tags are given, illustrating the tool’s functionality.

April 28, 2025

Streamline Banking Documents: Smart Rules in DEVONthink

The author advocates for automating document management in light of increasing digital artifacts. They highlight risks of poor tracking and propose using DEVONthink for better organization. A specific use case involves creating a ‘Smart Rule’ to automatically sort bank documents by date for archiving, enhancing efficiency and accessibility.

January 11, 2025

User maintenance on macOS

List all User Accounts will return an output as: Show a User Account Information $ /usr/bin/dscl . -read /Users/<USER_ACCOUNT> So, the command: will return: … Follow the command to Delete a User Account $ sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete /Users/<USER_ACCOUNT>

August 3, 2024

Current limitations on macOS virtual machines running on Apple silicon Macs

Details of supported VMs, file sharing, serial numbers, networking, input devices, display, Recovery mode and more. Current limitations on macOS virtual machines running on Apple silicon Macs

September 14, 2023

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.… Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

August 26, 2023

Apple Photo Stream: iPhone users urged to check their library before photos are permanently deleted | The Independent

Tool is disappearing – and could take important memories with it — Read on www.independent.co.uk/tech/apple-photo-stream-iphone-library-update-icloud-b2367403.html

July 1, 2023

What to do when a process uses too much CPU

The spinning beachball, a juddery interface, and fans running full pelt: what’s CPU doing in Activity Monitor, and what should you do about it? What to do when a process uses too much CPU

June 15, 2023

Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

Is that Mac completely dead due to a severe failure, or could it just be in DFU mode? They aren’t easy to distinguish on most Macs. Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

May 15, 2023

SQLcl: Customizing on a Mac

In this post I will summarize the steps I’ve taken to customize SQLcl on my Mac working environment. We assume that the reader is familiar with the procedures outline din my previous post on SQLcl on setting up SQLcl on Mac environment. Terminal customization First I start with changing the terminal a bit in order…

May 4, 2023

SQLcl: Setup on a Mac

Simple and straightforward steps about how to setup Oracle’s new SQL command line tool on a macOS X environment. Download Application and Environment Setup Attempt to start the application: Setup Java Download Java from the Oracle site. As I am on a mac wit M processor (ARM) , I cannot install jre-8u371-macosx-x64.dmg, so I cannot…

May 4, 2023

Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

An update users didn’t know about might have installed a security tool they don’t know about, whose reports they can’t see. Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

May 1, 2023

Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1. Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

April 27, 2023