Thursday, 17 October 2024

How to have a reasonable chance at getting correct album art in Mac OS Apple Music

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TL;DR Ignore the naysayers who claim it has nothing to do with the iTunes music store—they are wrong. Look up the album in iTunes and set t...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024

What is the point of these bots endlessly trying utterly random HTTP requests?

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I can't be the only one seeing this kind of garbage in my server logs: "GET /!?asdas1230ds0a=da90sue21qh HTTP/1.1" "GE...
Saturday, 24 February 2024

The Music app in Mac OS 14 Sonoma causes pauses in the whole rest of the system

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TL;DR: if you encounter hiccups in the MacOS UI or general sluggishness while playing music, first of all upgrade to Sonoma 14.5 if you can,...
Friday, 15 July 2022

HDR photos with a smartphone, built-in versus my own method

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On this blog, I have published some examples of HDR photos before, which I created manually by relying on auto-bracketing features in digit...
Friday, 1 July 2022

Making G'MIC Qt GIMP plug-in work in the 2.10.30 Mac version

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If you are using the G'MIC-Qt plug-in for GIMP on Mac OS, especially the one from aferrero2707 , you may have encountered this error aft...
Saturday, 15 May 2021

Black & Decker 90515265 blade clamp can be used on the POW 1004

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In a nutshell: you can use the Black & Decker 90515265 blade clamp as a spare part for the Powerplus (Varo) POW 1004 jigsaw. Thi...
Saturday, 3 October 2020

Apple made system calls horribly slow in the 10.14.6 update. Thank you, Apple!

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After installing the Mac OS 10.14.6 update from the end of September 2020, I noticed something wasn't right. A simple Perl script that ...