Problems using your exchange (non ssl) on iOS

Maybe you have discovered, that configuring a non ssl exchange account is not so easy on iOS because the OS checks the settings and gives you the message that the account information could not be checked. Finish. Often the reason for that are typos  in username or server or password, but sometimes your exchange server...

Recover your images from your broken CF/SD card

During our last holiday I recognized that my 4GB CF card was not recognized any more by my camera and my mac. I was looking for a recovery service on the net but the prices charged there were too high, so we accepted that the images from 1 day were lost. I did not reformat...

Decentralize your services unchain your data…

Regarding my article : Apple silently removed calendar and contact sync in Mavericks from the recent past I have decided that I want to move my data away from cloud services as much as possible. Therefore I thought about possible solutions and found out the following: owncloud is the alternative for me regarding iCloud sync for files, calendar...

HowTo free up „other“ space on iPhone, iPad, iPod

As lots of other users I have experienced this mysterious "other" space you can see when you connect you iDevice to iTunes. I was not satisfied about any of the explanations you will find searching the web and specifically the apple support pages. On post at the apple discussion forum pages really fixed this issue...

MacBook Air Battery Drain – LogMeIn

Hi. I have experienced a significant battery drain throughout the last months. I recently changed to a 2013 MacBook Air from my late 2010 Air and was disappointed because I thought the newer faster macbook took up more battery and therefore has less runtime. But I got curious when I saw the mds and mdworker...

Usefull Apple Shortcuts Nr. 7 – A newline within an excel cell at Office for Mac

Always wanted to enter a new line into a microsoft excel cell within the Microsoft Office for Mac? It is nearly as simple as on windows on windows you use Alt+Enter an on the Mac you use: Ctrl + ⌘ + ↩ (Control + Command/Apple + Enter)

Multiple application entries in „Open With“ menu

If you get a lot of duplicates in the menu which opens if you open the context menu on a file to say "Open with" you have to rebuild your launchservices database by issuing a little command line command. Open up the terminal application and paste the whole code from below into the terminal window,...

Usefull Apple Shortcuts Nr. 6 – The @ sign on a Windows VM under Parallels

Again a different behavior for typing an at (@) sign when you are using a Windows (Win7) VM under Parallels Desktop on your mac. I had my problems typing my first email addresses 😉 Ctrl + ⌥ + q (means: Ctrl + alt + q)

Usefull Apple Shortcuts Nr. 5 – Parallels and Windows Ctrl + Alt + Del

If you have to have a windows vm on board of your mac using parallels desktop and you have to have a user logon on startup of the machine let's say because of your companies security settings you might have run into this problem earlier. Windows unlock screen request to ctrl+alt+del for login from you...

2 Screens, Problems using active corners…

If you have configured active corners on OSX and you are wondering why they don't really work on your main screen I've got the reason why. If you look at your screen order from the screen settings dialog under system settings you can see if your screens are not of the same size, that the...