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