Category: Apple
iTunes: Move backup location to an external hard drive
I got a new MacBook Pro with a 256 GB SSD, so not enough storage to back up all of my family’s iOS devices, to say the least. The solution was to back up to an external HDD. Here’s how to do it: 1. With iTunes closed, open the terminal and cd to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/…
How to get admin access to Tomcat 7 on OS X Yosemite
In continuing the path to learn more about Tomcat 7, I had to configured my local instance to give me admin access to the “Server Status,” “Manager App,” and “Host Manager” pages. It was actually quiet easy. In your terminal, go to /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat7/7.0.63/libexec/conf vim tomcat-users.xml Add the following: <role rolename="manager-gui"/> <role rolename="admin-gui"/> <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret"…
Installing Tomcat 7 on OS X Yosemite
I needed to install Tomcat 7 on my new MacBook Pro running OS X Yosemite, and I knew I wanted to take advantage of Homebrew. As expected, it was a breeze. In your terminal, do “brew install tomcat7” Type “catalina start” Navigate to http://localhost:8080 In my case, I was running version 7.0.63 with Java 1.8.0.51.…
IntelliJ IDEA: Pass M2_HOME to the IDE on OS X Yosemite
I had issues in Yosemite with IntelliJ always complaining that it couldn’t see my M2_HOME variable, even though I had it in my .bash_profile. Turns out that only works in the terminal. In any case, this worked — I verified it on my Mac, which runs v10.10.5. 1. Save this plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ as custom.startup.plist…
osx – Command to unlock “Locked” files on OS X – Super User
chflags -R nouchg /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/WITH/LOCKED/FILES/ Source: osx – Command to unlock “Locked” files on OS X – Super User
Importing Apple Notes into Evernote
Just copy and paste the following into the Script Editor and viola! tell application "Notes" set theMessages to every note repeat with thisMessage in theMessages set myTitle to the name of thisMessage set myText to the body of thisMessage set myCreateDate to the creation date of thisMessage set myModDate to the modification date of thisMessage…