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Use LTspice IV Windows Version on Mac OS X

October 21, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

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Running LTspice IV on Mac OS X

Before I start testing a new idea for an electronic circuit and building it on a breadboard, I usually want to check it with LTspice. It’s a fantastic piece of software for testing almost any kind of component. Nearly all manufacturers have a spice equivalent for most of their parts. But there’s a snag. The Mac version of LTspice is a piece of crap. Having to run a virtual PC or reboot using BootCamp feels unnecessarily slow and convoluted. But there’s a way of running it as a “normal” Mac application. Here’s how to do it.

 

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: Apple, Electronics, LTspice, mac, Mac OS X

Arq Backup for Mac OS X Now Supports Google Cloud Storage Nearline

March 20, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann 2 Comments

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There’s one thing that I fear when it comes to my storage and that is to lose all the pictures I’ve been taking for all these years. I have seen customers of mine that have lost all their images due to a hard disk crashing and seen the tears. I usually do my regular backup using TimeMachine on my Mac to an Apple Time Capsule. But my photo library in Adobe Lightroom is too big to fit on the SSD drive used in my MacBook Pro, and TimeMachine doesn’t do a backup of external drives. So I use rsync to make a backup to my NAS which uses RAID–1 for extra protection. But I don’t want to rely on a single backup. A fire, burglary or simple hardware failure makes me uneasy. So I also do an off-site backup using the excellent Arq backup program.

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: Arq, Backup, Cloud, Google, mac, Mac OS X

MultiMarkdown 4.7 Released

March 17, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

MultiMarkdown has just been updated to version 4.7. MultiMarkdown 4.7 Released. Unfortunately it looks like my biggest gripe with MultiMarkdown still isn’t fixed.

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: HTML, mac, Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Quicklook

Next App for iPhone Expense Tracker

January 20, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

Next iphone expense app iconDownload on the AppStoreI’ve started to use the excellent iPhone app Next to keep track of my expenses. My bank has a utility that automatically tracks every purchase I make, but for me, being a notorious money spender, it’s kind of a therapeutic thing to be forced every time I buy something to actually acknowledge the expense and not just buying without thinking. It’s also a great way of keeping track of what kind of things I spend my money on.

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Filed Under: iPad, iPhone Tagged With: app, iPad, iPhone, mac

Clearing the Icon Services cache in Yosemite

January 20, 2015 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

"furbo.org · Clearing the Icon Services cache in Yosemite"

After installing or updating a system to Yosemite, I have seen blank (missing) icons on several Macs. I have also seen cases where the desktop doesn’t get updated after a change to the document icons in the application itself (which happens as developers update their apps to use the new icon guidelines.)

Saving this link for later. Looks like a good thing to know.

Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: cache, mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh

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