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Using Windows in Parallels on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Here's how you enable function keys for Parallels only.

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Simple Webserver
Quickest way to serve the current folder as webserver ever.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
Automator Service for Converting one or more images to a PDF
iOS Screen Recording using Quick Time
Quick Time is the easiest way to do a quick screen capture of your iOS device. You only need to connect it with cable to your Mac and launch Quick Time ‣ File ‣ New Movie Recording ‣ Select iPhone/iPad as source. Here are some additional shortcuts to save some time on the way.
Keyboard shortcuts
After launching Quick Time.
⌃+⌘+n Start New Screen Recording
␣ Record
App shortcut using Automator
With Automator you can create a little app shortcut that launches directly into "Movie Recording" mode. Unfortunatelly the source selection is not exposed here, so there's still one last necessary to select your iOS device using the drop down.
Download the Automator Launch App
Colors App Palette Management
The Mac OS X color picker is a great place to store and access color sets. While this is not exposed in the app itself it is possible to save and re-use palettes.
Copy and add saved palettes
Look out for .clr files
~/Library/Colors
Apple Watch Palette
To get started here's the Apple Watch default color palette as referenced in the Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines
Download Apple Watch Color Palette
Open OS X Color Apps
In order to open the colors utility as a stand alone app you need to create a little launcher script using the AppleScript Editor under Applications > Utilities > AppleScript Editor with the following command
choose color
Download Colors Launch Script

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Run script from anywhere
make your script executable
chmod +x scriptfilename
Check your current "PATH" folders
echo $PATH
Go to one that makes sense e.g. /usr/local/bin
cd /usr/local/bin
create a symlink
ln -s ~/scripts/scriptfile
Once you open a new Terminal session your script should be launchable from anywhere in the file system. Nice.
Prepare USB Install Media for FreeNas/FreeBSD
Download image (iso)
Convert iso to img
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o FreeNAS-9.3-RELEASE.img FreeNAS-9.3-RELEASE.iso
Check for disk path of USB media
diskutil list
Copy image (to disk at e.g. /dev/disk2)
sudo dd if=FreeNAS-9.3-RELEASE.img of=/dev/disk2
Note: This copy process might take minute. Don't give up. Use top in another terminal window to check for process activity.
Enable Midi Sync Mode for the Volca Beats
To have Korg Volca Beats listen to an external Midi clock, you need to enable Midi Sync Mode. Here's how to do this:
Press Func while powering on
Enable pad 6 (red light)
Press Rec to confirm
You can double check if the setting is enabled turning the "Tempo" knob. If the external Midi Sync is enabled the display won't show any tempo change.
Resources
Volca Beats Manual Sheet PDF
Volca Beats Midi Mappings PDF
Using the Akai LPD8 as Drum Pad with GarageBand on iPad
Here are the MIDI note mappings for the GarageBand drum machine instrument.
My goal was to use the LPD8 as drum trigger for GarageBand. I connected it using the USB Camera Connection Kit.
→ Download my LPD8 controller editor preset here
The sad part: Having all set up and mapped it turned out that the LPD8's latency is (conspiracy theory: intentionally?!) too poor in order to use it for live drumming. Nice for playing around for a couple of minutes but nothing you would want to use on stage. Anyhow, I am sure want to try that out on your own. This should make it easy. The details:
Knobs
K1 – Volume
K5 – Pan
K2 – Send to Echo
K6 – Send to Reverb
Pad Layouts
Preset 1 – Preset optimized for live drumming
Preset 2 – Preset analog to the iPad grid
General CC mappings for GarageBand Source
CC#3 - Track Solo * CC#7 - Track Volume CC#9 - Track Mute * CC#10 - Track Pan CC#28 - Echo Send Level CC#29 - Reverb Send Level CC#59 - Effect 1 on/off * CC#60 - Effect 2 on/off * CC#61 - Effect 3 on/off * CC#62 - Effect 4 on/off * CC#63 - Effect 5 on/off * *meant for buttons
Good luck.
MySQL on Yosemite. Quickly.
Here's the quickest way I know to get running with a clean MySQL installation for local web serving
Have Homebrew installed
brew install mysql
Have Sequel Pro installed
Create new connection using
Host: 127.0.0.1 User: root
Create databases, users. Secure. Have fun.

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Apache and Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Some things have changed in Apache since 10.8. Here's how to get the web server running again in Yosemite.
Apache
Edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Add
<Directory /> AllowOverride none Options +Indexes </Directory>
Uncomment
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Oh, and while we're here, why not also enabling php for our old Wordpress … uncomment
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
Add local directory to /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/Users/Aww/Web-Projects/public" ServerName web.local </VirtualHost>
Add local address to vhosts /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 web.local
Restart Apache
sudo apachectl restart
if anything goes wrong, check the log files at /private/var/log/apache2/
Permissions
In case you get a 403 error surfing to web.local you will need to fix your permissions, e.g. like this …
sudo chmod -R 770 /Users/Aww/Web-Projects/public
Sublime Text - Open Terminal Here …
◳ Context click on file ‣ Open Terminal Here …
⇧ + ⌘ + t Open Terminal at location of selected file/folder
⇧ + ⌘ + ⌥ + t Open Terminal at project root
Sublime Text Package: Terminal
"Otl Aicher und das Design" A german short about the creation of the well known design for the '72 Olympic Games.
PHP Short Syntax for <?php echo "pain"; ?>
This comes pretty handy especially for Wordpress Templates with embedded php code. Instead of messing up your template file with the extended version
<?php echo "pain"; ?>
you can also use
<?= pain ?>
... wonderful, isn't it? :)
Turn Images into Multi Page PDF Files
Here's the blue print for a simple Automator application. Drag multiple image files on the application icon to turn them into pages of one PDF document.

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Managing External Git Libraries. Submodules!
When you add a git folder folder into git folder folder - as you might do for using other open source libraries in your code - you'll find that the .git meta folders will interfere with each other. If you want to keep all libraries attached to their respective git origins you need to add them as Submodules. The difference is that those submodule library folders need to be treated independently from your own code. You need to initialise and fetch their content separately. Here's how it works.
Add a git folder as submodule (instead of simply cloning it into your existing git folder = bad), example ...
git submodule add [email protected]:MrRio/jsPDF.git jsPDF
Go to the folder of this library. You'll find it's still empty. Init and Fetch its contents
git submodule init git submodule update
That's it. Now you can commit and publish your own topmost folder while keeping the references to the other containing git repositories intact.
Note: If there are git based libraries inside of the git based libraries you need to repeat the process of add + init + update for each one otherwise their files will be missing.
Unix Basics - Users, Groups & Permissions
aka the first aid kit for fixing Wordpress server permissions issues. Let's have a look ...
Users
List users
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1
Add user
useradd -m username
List users and their groups
getent passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}' | while read name; do groups $name; done
Extensive version. Users, groups, home directories, stuff ...
getent passwd
Assign user to group
usermod -a -G groupname username
Groups
List groups
cat /etc/group
Add group
groupadd groupname
Permissions
List permissions of contents of a folder
ls -l
Change user owning a file/folder
chown user file.txt
Change user owning a folder and all its content
chown -R user directory/
Change group owning a folder and its content
chgroup -R groupname folder
Debian
chgrp -R groupname folder
Change permissions to include only the owning user
chmod -R 750
or the user + group (depending on your preferred permissions setup)
chmod -R 770
Wordpress
If your Wordpress runs into write permissions issues on a new server here's your potential path to fix this.
Figure out the user name your web server process runs on
Check the set user + group permissions of your wp-content/uploads folder
Either make sure that your web server process is owner of this and all containing folders or part of the group assigned to the same
Rectify permission accordingly - if that's the issue
Note: If you play with adding groups, assigning users those user need to logout + login again to "see" those changes. Therefore you might need to restart your web server as well. ... Good luck. You can do it! :)