OSX Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/osx/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:19:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg OSX Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/osx/ 32 32 2696646 Automating Wave Accounting, Mail and Calendar https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/06/automating-wave-accounting-mail-and-calendar/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/06/automating-wave-accounting-mail-and-calendar/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:19:41 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=30253 Time for a bit of a technology related, geeky post about how I’ve recently automated part of my workflow thanks to Mail Rules, Folder Actions, Automator and AppleScript. As you might know from a previous post, I’m in the process of transferring to a new accounting solution called Wave. As part of the transition I...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2019/06/automating-wave-accounting-mail-and-calendar/feed/ 0 30253 Apple Updates https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:18:23 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17984 Only a few weeks after the lunch of OSX Yosemite I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my iMac the other day. I usually leave it until at least the next incremental update just so that any major issues are ironed out, but reports seemed mainly good and I had the time to do...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/feed/ 1 17984 Password Managers – LastPass, 1Password and iCloud Keychain https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/password-managers-lastpass-safari-keychain/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/password-managers-lastpass-safari-keychain/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2013 09:05:15 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14979 I’m forever advising clients about online security and the importance of secure, unique passwords, but it is amazing how lax some people can be with their passwords and how blasé they are with regards to online security. The Problem with Passwords Passwords of course aren’t the ideal way of protecting our accounts online for a...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/password-managers-lastpass-safari-keychain/feed/ 0 14979 Upgrading to Mac OSX Mavericks https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/10/upgrading-to-mavericks/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/10/upgrading-to-mavericks/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:25:38 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=14883 As a self-confessed ‘Mac Fan Boy’ and a surfer, when Apple announced that the latest incarnation of OSX would be named ‘Mavericks’ after a famous big wave surf break in California I really couldn’t resist upgrading to the latest operating system. When they announced last week that the upgrade would be free then I was sold....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/10/upgrading-to-mavericks/feed/ 1 14883 Dual Pane, Tabbed Finder – TotalFinder vs Path Finder https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/10/dual-pane-tabbed-finder-totalfinder-vs-path-finder/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2010/10/dual-pane-tabbed-finder-totalfinder-vs-path-finder/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:37:52 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=6223 As a bit of an Apple fan-boy it’s not often that I moan about the short-comings of Apple products, the Mac or OSX, but one thing that I’ve wanted for a while in the Finder is tabbed windows and a dual pane function. Tabbed Windows We’ve all got used to tabbed windows in our web-browsers....

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