Here's a quick companion post to the previous one with some raw technical information on the file formats for the Bose Sleepbuds. Each sound in the library needs a collection of background images, thumbnail images, a preview WAV and separate...
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Hacking the Bose Sleepbuds
Edit: Bose have discontinued the SleepBuds and are offering everyone a full refund if they return them. As such, I'm not going to spend any more time trying to hack the Bose Sleep app. https://www.bose.com.au/en_au/support/products/earphones_support/noise-masking-sleepbuds.html This is going to be...
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Clear out the /Library/StageExtensions folder on macOS Mojave
I installed some software that I wanted to quickly check out. As it turns out, it helpfully decided to install a couple of Extensions. These extensions were for hardware I don't have, nor do I plan to get. I didn't...
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Publish an Office 365 Resource Calendar to iCal or the web
With Office 365, it is very easy for an individual user to share their calendar out to external recipients, and those recipients get a URL that can be used to subscribe to the calendar in their favourite client software. How...
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Apple announces new hardware at WWDC – Mac Pro and Pro Display
Apple have finally announced a new Mac Pro and matching Pro Display at WWDC. The Mac Pro returns to the beloved "cheese-grater" form factor of years gone past and turns it up to the next level. It features a tubular...
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Managing snapshots on Apple File System (APFS) formatted volumes
Over at Der Flounder there's a great article on how to manage filesystem snapshots on APFS volumes, using the Time Machine utility in Terminal - tmutil. Filesystem snapshots on APFS have grown from the capabilities of local backups, that Time...
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Check out the IINA Video Player
Reading over an article on TidBITS today, I've now discovered a new media player that may take the place of the venerable VLC Media Player. I've simply lost count of the number of years that I've been using VLC (and recommending...
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Microsoft will deliver a full Linux Kernel with Windows 10
Microsoft are really stepping things up with their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In the current release of Windows 10, the WSL layer has a custom-built kernel that translates Linux APIs through to Windows APIs. This translation layer should mean...
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Fix Finder not displaying icon previews
Here's a quick fix for the Finder not displaying a thumbnail of an image for it's icon. Drop into the Terminal and type: qlmanage -r cache This resets the QuickLook cache. As QuickLook is responsible for extracting the thumbnails for...
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“Secret” shortcut keys to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery
This is a good article to bookmark from Apple - I wasn't aware that there were different keyboard shortcuts to boot into the macOS Recovery system, and which keyboard shortcut you use will (potentially) give you different versions of macOS...
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