As the stock Calendar app is available on iOS across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as for your Mac and as a web app on iCloud.com, we’re going to cover each platform separately. Enabling birthdays in Calendar app on iPhone & iPad. To show or hide the Birthdays calendar on an iPhone or iPad, do the following. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article looking at what. While considering all the various options, I started coming across a lot of macOS alternatives. For whatever reason, the built-in calendar for Mac hasn’t been working great for me recently, so I thought I’d look at what’s the best calendar app for the Mac. What’s The Best Calendar App for the Mac? I know that everyone uses their calendar in different ways. Some people like to manage all of their tasks from it. Others only have their official meetings. Others plan out every hour of the day. Like I always say when I write articles like this, this is purely based on opinion for me. I have my way of managing my calendar, and that will undoubtedly skew my opinions. I keep all my tasks in a separate app, so I only use it for appointments. So let’s get down to it: what’s the best calendar app for the Mac? Apple’s Calendar Of all the calendar apps on macOS, Apple’s built-in calendar is probably the most widely used. It’s built into every Mac, and it syncs with iCloud, Google Calendar, Yahoo, Exchange, and general CalDAV servers. On the surface, it does everything you’d want it to do. It works reliably with multiple calendars, it’s relatively easy to enter new appointments, and it’s easy to rearrange events. My issue with Apple Calendar is that it does nothing to stand out outside of being the default app. In a lot of ways, it’s felt stagnant for years. The last new feature update was a few years ago when it got time travel alerts. We’ve gone two full years without a single new feature (except for Dark Mode). I know that Calendar apps are mature, but there is no reason Apple cannot continue to tweak or rethink aspects of the app. The app feels “heavy” to me, and I’d love to see a slimmed down (menu bar?) version of it. There are a lot of features of the other third-party apps that Apple could easily copy. Fantastical As I mentioned in my iPhone calendar round-up, Fantastical on the iPhone is fantastic. The Mac counterpart is no different. It’s a “fantastic calendar.” It includes all the features the Apple Calendar includes (Time travel, support for iCloud, Google, Exchange, Office 365, and more, and a dark mode). On top of those, Fantastical has features that help set it apart from Apple Calendar. ![]() I love the natural language input it includes. You can easily add appointments by simply typing out what you need to add (dinner with dad tomorrow at 7 pm), and it will parse out what you mean. My favorite feature of Fantastical is the menu bar version. In Fantastical 1.0, this was the only way to use the app. In version 2, they added a full-featured view. The menu bar version is my absolute favorite way to use it, though. I don’t have a ton of appointments, but this quick view allows me to see my upcoming day quickly, and make adjustments as necessary. Another great feature of version 2.0 is Calendar sets. Fantastical 2 lets you quickly toggle multiple calendars on or off with a single click, so you can focus on what’s more important at that moment. The days of going back and forth, clicking multiple times, to hide and show your calendars are over. But we didn’t stop there. You can even automatically switch Calendar Sets based on your location (i.e., Work and Home). How cool is that?
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Before starting the manual USB creation process, you must download the.zip file that contains CloudReady. Start by downloading the CloudReady.zip file to your standard downloads folder, not a USB device. • If you are a current CloudReady customer, or have already signed up for a trial, download the.zip file from on the Downloads tab. • You can start a 3 week trial of the Education or Enterprise Editions of CloudReady, totally free, by signing up at. After signing up, you'll be able to download the.zip file from. • If you are an individual user and don't need support or management, download the.zip file for our. This guide assumes that you have downloaded your image and that it is in your Downloads folder. Bill Dawson I used to be strictly a Chrome user despite the loss in battery life and high resource usage but i recently completely switched over to Safari. Feels smoother too but the main reason is the Adguard extension. It is available for both browsers but for some reason the Safari extension blocks Adblock detectors (popups saying you must turn off adblock for content to work properly) also stops those annoying ads that when you click a link, leaves behind a ad and opens link in new tab. For some reason the same Chrome extension doesn’t do that. It might do something with the new ad block api or whatever Apple just released and the Safari version of the extension is utilizing it while the Chrome version doesn’t. Internet now feels truly add-free again, the first time since all the big ad-block extensions sold out. ![]() Learn how to download install and set up Google Chrome for MacOS. Do you have a Macbook Pro or a MacBook Air? A comprehensive guide for Google Chrome Mac. Learn how to download install and set up Google Chrome for MacOS. Do you have a Macbook Pro or a MacBook Air? Chrome Story. Jan 20, 2012 Google chrome is fast and no doubt tests have been conducted and depending on the procedures and processes used some tests will show Google chrome to be faster than Safari and other tests will show Safari to be faster than Google chrome. When i first got my WD External Hard drive, it was formatted for PC. I then found the instructions to format it to Mac but now whenever i connect it to a pc, it wont work. My question is if i am able to set my hard drive to a format in which it can work on both windows and mac. Plug the USB cable for the WD My Passport drive into your Mac. Double click on the desktop icon for your partition. You can copy and paste or drag and drop as I have described above to put your files in a partition you have set up for sharing between a Mac and a PC. ![]() •| This answer explains how to format a drive in the exFAT or FAT32 file system. This allows the drive to be used on both Windows and macOS. •| This answer explains how to format a WD drive for use on Windows and macOS. •| This answer explains how to erase a WD drive in Windows OS and macOS. •| This answer explains how to setup and use WD Security and WD Drive Utilities on a Windows or Mac computer. •| This answer explains how to install WD Apps software in Windows (10, 8, 7, or Vista) and macOS (10.8.x Mountain Lion through 10.12.x Sierra). •| WD Discovery Online User Guide. •| This answer explain starting macOS Time Machine backups to My Passport and External USB Drives. •| Direct Attached Storage Online User Guide and Solutions •| This article explains how to safely eject a USB device from a computer. | This answer explains how to format a drive in the exFAT or FAT32 file system. This allows the drive to be used on both Windows and macOS.| This answer explains how to format a WD drive for use on Windows and macOS.| This answer explains how to erase a WD drive in Windows OS and macOS.| This answer explains why My Cloud mobile app is unable to access the 'TimeMachineBackup' or 'SmartWare' shares on a My Cloud device.| This answer explains how to fix WD Software install, uninstall and update issues on Windows PC.| This article explains how to backup and restore using the File History feature of Windows 10. WD Community| It's taken a fall or two to the soft carpet floor from a height of about 16 inches, but I don't think this should be a problem. I'm sorry, but those 16 inches are more than enough to damage a drive.| The drive is probably physically damaged. It doesn't take much of a bump to damage them. Professional data recovery is likely the only solution. Joe| Dropping included, you have several kinds of issues that arise that can cause a drive not to read. The drive itself is broken, which means you can only possibly retrieve your data through data reco.| What OS are you using and does the drive show in Disk Management? Does it say anything in Disk Management down where the bars are shown like Raw? Never trust important data to just one drive intern. Hello Everyone, Thank you in advance for any help. I appreciate it. I recently purchased a My Passport 2TB back up drive. I would like to take the files from my MacBook Pro and transfer them to a PC permanently. I will no longer be using the MacBook Pro. Once I have the files transferred, I would like to use the back up drive as a permanent back up for the PC. I am a supreme novice when it comes to stuff like this especially the Mac part which is why I’m going back to PC. I tried to search this in the forums and found PC to Mac but nothing the other way around. Sorry is this is a repetitive question. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Print on Both Sides of the Paper Automatically (Automatic 2-sided Printing) (Mac).... Scan Using ControlCenter4 Advanced Mode (Windows®). My system: late 2012 Mac Mini, Sierra 10.12.6 I used to have the Brother printer ControlCenter icon in the menu bar (at the very top of the screen) but after a recent update to my Dymo printer software this disappeared. The Dymo update also changed a few other things in my Brother printer, but I was able to restore them but not the ControlCenter icon in the menu bar.:frowning: I have completely uninstalled the Brother software and reinstalled it to no avail: the ControlCenter icon is still not there in the menu bar, at the top of the screen. I called Brother. They said to contact Apple. I searched the Apple Forum site to find no help. So how can I put the ControlCenter icon back into the menu bar? Only Brother has a program to do that. They may have left it out in the update. Unless they state otherwise it is their fault, not Apple's. If they claim it still works in your version of macOS then see the following: A Troubleshooting Procedure that may Fix Problems with macOS El Capitan or Later You should try each, one at a time, then test to see if the problem is fixed before going on to the next. Be sure to backup your files before proceeding if possible. • Shutdown the computer, wait 30 seconds, restart the computer. • Disconnect all third-party peripherals. • • • Reset your Startup Disk and Sound preferences. • Start the computer in. Test in safe mode to see if the problem persists, then restart normally. • to see if there is any hardware malfunction. • Repair the disk by booting from the Recovery HD. Immediately after the chime hold down the Command and Rkeys until the Utility Menu appears. Choose Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the indented (usually, Macintosh HD) volume entry from the side list. Click on the First Aid button in the toolbar. Wait for the Done button to appear. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu. Restart the computer from the Apple Menu. ![]() • Repair permissions on the Home folder:. • Create a New User Account Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and enter your Admin password when prompted. On the left under Current User click on the Add [+] button under Login Options. Setup a new Admin user account. Upon completion log out of your current account then log into the new account. If your problems cease, then consider switching to the new account and transferring your files to it -. • Download and install the or or as needed. • Reinstall OS X by booting from the Recovery HD using the Command and R keys. ![]() When the Utility Menu appears select Reinstall OS X then click on the Continue button. • Erase and Install OS X Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the Commandand Rkeys until the Apple logo appears. When the Utility Menu appears: • Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on Continue button. • When Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry) from the Device list. • Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's toolbar. A panel will drop down. • Set the Format type to APFS (for SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) • Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it. • Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu. • Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button. If none of the above helps then see. For details on how this is supposed to work, see the Brother documentation for your particular printer. I've been using the Brother printer and scanner functions directly, and don't have the control center app around. The built-in macOS drivers do work with the Brother MFC series printers I've worked with, and the built-in image capture tool also works with the MFC series. I'll very occasionally use the Brother status app. As stated, I don't have the Brother control center app ('ControlCenter.app') installed (just the status monitor tool), and the status monitor app is present in /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ when that's been installed. To get to the status monitor tool from the GUI, use > System Preferences > Printers & Scanners > select the Brother printer > select Options and Supplies > Utility > Open Printer Utility. QuickTime & Yosemite: Recording Your iPhone or iPad Screen with iOS 8. I wrote an article about how to use QuickTime to record your Mac’s screen for making instructional videos and stuff. To record iPhone or iPad output on your Mac, make sure you’re running OS X Yosemite and iOS 8. Then connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using a Lightning cable. Note that you may need to “” your Mac before the iPhone will work. Launch QuickTime and select File > New Movie Recording from the menu bar. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-N. This will launch a new QuickTime window for video recording. ![]() ![]() By default, QuickTime will activate your Mac’s built-in iSight camera, but ignore that and find and click on the small downward-facing triangle next to the record button. This lets you select an alternate recording source, which now includes your iPhone or iPad. Select your iPhone or iPad from the list and you’ll see your device’s screen replicated in the QuickTime window. To provide that extra bit of professional polish, Apple automatically shows a clean iOS status bar, with full cellular reception, a full battery, and the historic time setting, making your own iPhone recordings look just like Apple’s. The QuickTime recording also recognizes iPhone or iPad rotation, so you’ll see the preview window on your Mac switch aspect ratios as you rotate your device. The recording itself is near real-time, but there is some noticeable lag between performing an action on your device and seeing the action occur in the QuickTime window. This won’t be an issue for actual iPhone recordings, as the software will sync audio and video for the final output, but this does mean that you won’t want to use this feature while live to play games or perform tasks that require minimal latency. As for audio, you can either record your iPhone or iPad screen and add audio later during post and editing, or you can record audio live with the video. Using the same drop-down menu from which you selected your iPhone screen, select the desired source you’d like to use for audio. This can be your Mac’s built-in microphone for narration, a third-party audio source, or the iPhone itself if you want to record the sound and music produced by the apps you plan to demonstrate. When you’re done recording, just hit the stop button in the QuickTime preview window. You can then save the recording as a QuickTime movie (.mov) on your computer, or use the presets at File > Export to create a version optimized for certain resolutions or devices. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest using the box below. Get tips, reviews, news, and giveaways reserved exclusively for subscribers. Open Mac Mail by double-clicking the 'Mail” alias on your 'Desktop' or by clicking the 'Mail” icon in the 'Dock.' You can also open Mail by selecting 'Applications' from the 'Go' menu at the top. Select “Preferences” from the “Mail” Menu at the top. Click on the “Accounts” button on the preferences window. Select your PenTeleData email account from the “Accounts” window. Click on “Server Settings” to continue. Change the “Server port:” to “587” and click “OK.” 5. Click on the close button. Begin by opening up Outlook 2010. How Do I Set Up My Specific POP3/IMAP Software or Device? Select the table with your brand of product—Windows, MAC, or Mobile. Then, click your product link for setup instructions and FAQs for the software or device that you are using. Click on the “File” menu and select “Account Settings.” from the “Account Settings” button. The Outlook “Accounts Settings” dialog box will now appear. Select your PenTeleData email account from the list below, and click “Change.” 3. Click “More Settings” to continue. Click on the “Advanced” tab. You will now be returned to the “Change Account” window, click “Next” to continue. The “Test Account Settings” window will now open. Once it has completed the tests, click ”Close.” 8. Click “Finish.”. Open Mac Mail by double-clicking the 'Mail” alias on your 'Desktop' or by clicking the 'Mail” icon in the 'Dock.' You can also open Mail by selecting 'Applications' from the 'Go' menu at the top. Select “Preferences” from the “Mail” Menu at the top. Click on the “Accounts” button on the “General” window. The “Accounts” window will now appear. Select your PenTeleData email account from the “Accounts” list on the left if it is not already selected. Click on the “Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):” drop down menu. Click on “Edit Server List.” 6. Select “promail.ptd.net” if it is not already selected. Then click the “Advanced” tab. Change the “Server port:” to “587” and click “OK.” 8. Click on the close button. You will be prompted to save your changes, click “Save.”. Open Outlook by either selecting the “Outlook” icon from the Windows “Desktop” or by selecting the “Outlook” icon from the “Start” menu. In the Outlook window, select 'Account Settings.” from the “Tools” menu at the top. The Outlook “Accounts Settings” dialog box will now appear. Select your PenTeleData email account from the list below, and click “Change.” 4. The Outlook “Internet E-mail Settings” dialog box will now appear. Click on the “Advanced” tab. Under “Outgoing Server (SMTP):” change the port to “587.” 6. Click “OK” at the bottom of the “Internet E-mail Settings” window. You will now be returned to the “Change E-mail Account” window, click “Next” to continue. To finish setting up you email to use Port 587 click “Finish.”. Open Windows Mail by either selecting the “Windows Mail” icon from the Windows “Desktop” or by selecting the “Windows Mail” icon from the “Windows” menu (formerly known as the “Start” menu). Select 'Accounts' from the 'Tools' menu at the top. The Windows Mail 'Internet Accounts” dialog box will now appear. Select your PenTeleData email account and click on the “Properties” button to your right. The “promail.ptd.net Properties” dialogue box will now appear. Click on the “Advanced” tab at the top of the properties window. Under “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” change the port to “587.” 6. ![]() Click “OK” at the bottom of the properties window. Finally, click on the “Close” button in the lower right of the “Internet Accounts” window and your new settings have been saved. Open Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 by either selecting the “Mozilla Thunderbird” icon from the Windows “Desktop” or by selecting the “Mozilla Thunderbird” icon from the “Start” menu. Select 'Accounts Settings” from the 'Tools' menu at the top. After the announcement for the new Linux build agents I looked into my sample whoami repo that builds a multi-arch Docker image that works both for Linux and Windows. I was curious to find out how the Linux builds work on AppVeyor. Let's get it right from the start: Containers can take you to horrible, horrible places. They can be a nightmare to debug and monitor. They can add a layer of complexity and instability to an otherwise stable application. Unless you understand immutability, you can end up trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.or box. To make things worse, some experiences with Docker in production are. While containers are clearly not the answer to everything, they can be absolutely fantastic. They usually make shipping and deploying your application much easier. They make consistent testing much, much easier. Containerising your application is like shoving your app and all its dependencies into a box. Except the box is infinitely replicable. Whatever happens in the box, stays in the box - unless you explicitly take something out or put something in. And when it breaks, you'll just throw it away and get a new one. Containers make your app easy to run on different computers - ideally, the same image should be used to run containers in every environment stage from development to production. This post is your guide for building a Docker image, and then setting up Jenkins 2 to build and publish the image automatically, whenever you commit changes to your code repository. Requirements To run through this guide, you will need the following: • To build and run the Docker image locally: Mac OS X or Linux, and • To set up Jenkins to build the image automatically: Access to a Jenkins 2.x installation (you could run it as a container, ) Our application For this guide, we'll be using a very basic example: a Hello World server written with Node. Place this in a main.js. Pro tip: Get all the code for this guide from Writing a Dockerfile To be able to build a Docker image with our app, we'll need a Dockerfile. You can think of it as a blueprint for Docker: it tells Docker what the contents and parameters of our image should be. Docker images are often based on other images. For this exercise, we are basing our image on the official Node Docker image. This makes our job easy, and our Dockerfile very short. The grunt work of installing Node and its dependencies in the image is already done in our base image; we'll just need to include our application. The Dockerfile is best stored with the code - this way any changes to it are versioned along with the actual application code. Add the following to a file called Dockerfile in the project directory. Assuming it does, you can quit the docker run command with CTRL + C. Building the image in Jenkins Now that we know our Docker image can be built, we'll want to do it automatically every time there is a change to the application code. For this, we'll use Jenkins. ![]() Jenkins is an automation server often used to build and deploy applications. Note: this guide assumes you are running Jenkins 2.0 or newer, with the Docker Pipeline plugin and Docker installed. If you don't have access to a Jenkins installation, refer to Pipelines as Code: the Jenkinsfile Just like Dockerfiles, I'm a firm believer in storing Jenkins pipeline configuration as code, along with the application code. It generally makes sense to have everything in the same repository; the application code, what the build artifact should look like (Dockerfile), and how said artifact is created automatically (Jenkinsfile). ![]() Let's think about our pipeline for a second. We can identify four stages. That's the entirety of our pipeline specification for Jenkins. Now, we'll just need to tell Jenkins two things: • Where to find our code • What credentials to use to publish the Docker image We'll start by configuring the credentials: Configuring Docker Hub with Jenkins To store the Docker image resulting from our build, we'll be using Docker Hub. You can sign up for a free account at. We'll need to give Jenkins access to push the image to Docker Hub. For this, we'll create Credentials in Jenkins, and refer to them in the Jenkinsfile. As you might have noticed in the above Jenkinsfile, we're using docker.withRegistry to wrap the app.push commands - this instructs Jenkins to log in to a specified registry with the specified credential id ( docker-hub-credentials). We have successfully containerised an application, and set up a Jenkins job to build and publish the image on every change to a repository. Next steps Now that we have set up a basic delivery pipeline, there are a few more things to consider. Deployment The next logical step in the pipeline would be to deploy the container automatically into a testing environment. ![]() Write with confidence, knowing intelligent technology can help with spelling, grammar and even stylistic writing suggestions. With tools at your fingertips, easily go from pen and paper to digital inking and edit intuitively. Get all the information you need as you write without leaving Word. Microsoft Office files are still very common, but if you’re more of a Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides user, you can still edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Google Drive–if you know how. On the desktop, you’ll need to use the Google Chrome browser and an official Chrome extension to edit Microsoft Office documents, using Google Drive’s Office Compatibility Mode (OCM). You can edit them like that, or convert them to Google Docs format, which will provide more features. (Don’t worry–even if you convert them to Google Docs format, you can re-download them in Microsoft Office format later). You can also edit Microsoft Office files using the Google Drive app and the Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides apps on iOS or Android. We’ll show you both methods in the guide below. How to Work with Microsoft Office Files on Google Drive on a PC or Mac Let’s start with the desktop. If the Office file you want to edit and share is still on your PC’s hard drive, you can easily upload it to Google Drive and open it for editing in Chrome using a Chrome extension. Open Chrome, go to the, click “Add to Chrome”, and follow the on-screen instructions to install it. Once the extension is installed, drag the Office file onto the Chrome window until you see a copy icon as shown below. For my example throughout this article, I’m going to use a Word/Google Docs file, but the procedure is the same for Excel/Google Sheets files and PowerPoint/Google Slides files. The first time you drag an Office file onto the Chrome window, the following dialog box displays. Click “Got it” to close the window. You won’t see this dialog box again. RELATED: The Office file is uploaded to your Google Drive account and opened on the current tab. There a limited number of features you can use to edit the Office file in your Google Drive account. However, if you convert the document to a Google document, there are more features available, and you can. To convert your Word file to a Google Docs document, select “Save as Google Docs” from the “File” menu. If you uploaded and opened an Excel file (.xlsx or.xls), the option would be “Save as Google Sheets” and if the file is a PowerPoint file (.pptx or.ppt), the option would be “Save as Google Slides”. A dialog box displays while the document is converted and saved to your Google Drive account. You can stop the conversion by clicking “Cancel”. Once you make your changes, you can download the Google document as an Office file. In my example, I select “Download as” from the “File” menu and then select “Microsoft Word (.docx)” from the submenu. There are also other formats in which you can download the Word file, such as.rtf,.pdf, and even as an eBook (.epub). The name of the original file is used by default, but you can change it in the “File name” edit box. Then, click “Save”. Another way to work with Office files in your Google Drive account is to upload them to your Google Drive account, which can be downloaded from. If you’ve uploaded your Word file this way, you can, and then open the Word file in Google Docs. For my example, I’ll open my Word file by right-clicking on the file in my Google Drive account, selecting “Open with” from the popup menu, and then selecting “Google Docs” from the submenu. The Word file is opened in a new tab and you can edit the document just like when you dragged the Word file onto the Chrome window previously. You can also “Download” the file as a Word file using the “Download” button in the upper-right corner of the browser window, or using the “Share” button. At this point, the file is still a Word file and you’re working in Office Compatibility Mode (OCM). To convert it to a Google Docs file, select “Save as Google Docs” from the “File” menu, just like you did after dragging the Word file onto the Chrome window. How to Work with Microsoft Office Files on Google Drive on a Mobile Device You can also open and edit Office files using the or (for Word files), the or (for Excel files), or the or (for PowerPoint files). However, you also need to install the. When you select an Office file to open in the Google Drive app, it’s automatically opened in the appropriate Google document app. |
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