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Prague Day 01

Day 1 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

What are remoted and remotemanagementd?

If you see remoted or remotemanagementd running on your Mac, here is what these remote access processes do.

Mac

Kill all browser plugins

In the last few years all big players on the internet, started adopting HTML5 for video streaming. Like YouTube, Netflix and all kinds of news websites.

Development

What is warmd?

If you see warmd running on your Mac, here is what this app preloading process does.

Mac

Monthly update #0302 • June 2015

Monthly update 302 • June 2015 • 2015-06-01 - 2015-06-30

Monthly Updates

CloudKit

CloudKit, a powerful framework by Apple, enables iOS developers to integrate iCloud functionality into apps, eliminating the need for custom backend code and server maintenance by providing seamless user authentication, data storage, and file management.

Development

The Geneva Strategy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva Strategy, co-authored with Jamie Freveletti, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts kidnappers who seized officials at a Geneva summit and threaten a cyberattack.

Books

Monthly update #0301 • May 2015

Monthly update 301 • May 2015 • 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-31

Monthly Updates

Pentecost

At this stage Pentecost prompts serious thought. The Holy Spirit came to give us power and direction.

Christianity

Fletta

Fletta is a webbrowser specially designed for usages in public places, for example in hotels, restaurants, libraries, etc. It wil take cares of your users privacy.

Projects

Ascension Day

At this stage Ascension Day prompts serious thought. Christ went up to heaven to give us hope and direction.

Christianity

Monthly update #0300 • April 2015

Monthly update 300 • April 2015 • 2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30

Monthly Updates

Useful macOS defaults: Crash Reporter

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.CrashReporter, controlling how crash dialogs behave.

Mac

The Imitation Game

The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.

Movies

Monthly update #0299 • March 2015

Monthly update 299 • March 2015 • 2015-03-01 - 2015-03-31

Monthly Updates

Happy Easter

At this stage Easter prompts serious thought. Christ rose to give us new life and purpose.

Christianity

Good Friday

At this stage Good Friday prompts serious thought. Christ died on the cross to give us purpose and forgiveness.

Christianity

About labels and icons

In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.

Development

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 9 April 2009 to 24 February 2015. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created it. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, a cheerful and driven mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana.

TV Series

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.

TV Series

NSCalendar Additions

NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.

Development

What is system_installd?

If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.

Mac

NSScanner

NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).

Development

Monthly update #0298 • February 2015

Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28

Monthly Updates

The Heavy Water War

The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.

TV Series