For those seeking peace and quiet, migraine sufferers or those who just want to relax in the Zen garden: $ sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%0 The value %0 determines the volume.
If you think deleting your browser history erases all traces, you need to change your religion. Downloads from Firefox and Safari are still stored in a log file on your computer. No matter how many times you clear your browser…
By default, macOS saves screenshots to the desktop in the not-so-spare PNG format. If you don’t want to clutter up your desktop, you can choose where and how you want to save your screenshots. To do this, open the Terminal…
One evening I was skimming through the new Juno releases, partly bored, and my instinct was to say… nothing! By chance I listened to the compilation again and somehow came across the Soundcloud profile of Fingerman, who had mixed tracks…
I don’t need to say much about The Prodigy and the recently deceased Keith Flint. Except perhaps that their music had a massive influence on me in the 90s. Kaleidoscope Orchestra‘s tribute gave me goosebumps, just as it did back…
Somewhere along the line, at an almost typical age for becoming interested in cars, I became fascinated by the classic Mini, I don’t know why. Years later, when the new Mini was available, the desire was still there and led…
“What if your morning coffee could change lives?” It can, at least in London, and most likely if you get your coffee from one of the Change Please stalls. They employ formerly homeless people who have been trained as baristas…
Schlecky Silberstein’s book, Das Internet muss weg (The Internet Has To Go), is not a revelation on how to live without the net, nor does it prepare you for the EU copyright reform that is practically around the corner. But…
Coincidence couldn’t have been any better for me when it served me the Hello Monday mix by Atjazz on Sunday evening. Two relaxed but head-nodding hours that still don’t make you want to go to Monday, but make the way…
A brief introduction: My provider offers 100 Mbps download, but at the time I signed up, they only gave me a Fritz!Box with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, which can’t deliver 100 Mbps due to certain limitations. I then bought a new…
Very recently, it was the good beer I was raving about. But good coffee is much more important to me! I already checked off the current hypes about the different ways of making coffee years ago. From the porcelain filter,…
