Skip to content

www.rolfje.com

Category: Apple

Month view Redesign

Posted on 2011-10-14 By rolfje 1 Comment on Month view Redesign

A day in my weekTrue to their tradition on the Mac, the Calendar and Addressbook applications on the iPhone are, let’s say “lacking finesse”. As good as Apple can design products and user interfaces, their focus is clearly not on calendars and address books. I’ve read somewhere that “iCal is proof that Steve does not maintain his own calendar”.

After trying out various replacements on the iPhone, I finally stuck with a pretty darn good calendar for the iPhone called “Week Calendar”. The main reason for switching to that app is that it actually has a week view, but when I started using it more intensely I found myself using the month view the most. Until somebody at Apple stopped the show.

Read More “Month view Redesign” »

Apple

Steve Jobs

Posted on 2011-10-08 By rolfje No Comments on Steve Jobs

Dear Apple,

I am truly sorry for the huge loss and wish every Apple employee, family, and friends of Steve strength in these tough times. Through Apple, Steve improved the lives of many people in the world, including mine. By hiring great people and (re)building the Apple brand, he will continue to do so even long after his death. Steve lives on in all of us.

“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Joining our virtual group hug,
Rolf

Apple

Open Letter to Tim Cook

Posted on 2011-09-20 By rolfje No Comments on Open Letter to Tim Cook

Our new old friend, Tim CookDear Tim,

I am certainly not the first, nor the last to congratulate you with your new position at Apple. I’m sure there will be many great things to come for Apple and it’s customers.

Apple has become the doctor that doesn’t fix the pain, but cures the illness and improves our daily digital lives. Please make sure Apple keeps it’s focus, perseverance and good taste in the endless search for true quality.

Tell Steve and Jony I said hi, and keep up the good work. If there’s anything I can help you with, you know how to reach me 😉

Cheers,
Rolf

Apple

iMovie Beat Markers and the Clip Trimmer

Posted on 2011-09-05 By rolfje No Comments on iMovie Beat Markers and the Clip Trimmer

iMovie tricksThis weekend I tried to add beat markers to a video for a colleague. But the beat marker menu option was grayed out, and I spent some time searching for the “Clip Trimmer” everybody was talking about. I was in a bit of a hurry and all the right-clicks, top menu, gear-icon popup menus, and shortcuts made me overlook the thing I was looking for. Maybe you overlooked it too. It’s not much of a tutorial, but if you need to add beat markers to your background music, here’s how to get to the correct “Clip Trimmer” in iMovie ’11.

Read More “iMovie Beat Markers and the Clip Trimmer” »

Apple

Fixing Photo Creation Dates

Posted on 2011-08-15 By rolfje 2 Comments on Fixing Photo Creation Dates

Count down to your vacationYou know how it is on vacation. You take your camera, shoot pictures, and when you get home you see that you forgot to set the date/time on your camera. Even worse: your wife also took a camera with her, and she actually read the manual and set the time correctly. So now you have two sets of photos with mismatching date/times. Now what?

It turns out that there is actually a pretty simple trick to solve this, and you don’t even haven to install exiftool or do funny command line voodo. If you have iPhoto and a mouse, here’s what you do:

Read More “Fixing Photo Creation Dates” »

Apple

Why some App Store apps won’t install

Posted on 2011-01-09 By rolfje 2 Comments on Why some App Store apps won’t install

App Store IconI was happily playing around with the appstore, and came across this funny free game called “Hedgewars”. Originally a free Linux game, it apparently got ported to the Mac and put in the App Store, just as a slew of Flash-based games (yes, Steve has some ‘splainin’ to do).

I tried to install Hedgewars on my trusty Mac Mini and got this message saying “This Application can not be installed on this machine”:

Read More “Why some App Store apps won’t install” »

Apple, Games, Hardware, Software

Move Time Machine data to a Drobo

Posted on 2010-12-30 By rolfje 20 Comments on Move Time Machine data to a Drobo

Remember, even Drobo's can die. Make sure your files are in at least three different physical locations, one of which preferably off-site.If Santa treated you particularly well this season, or you have put some of your savings to good use, chances are that you have a brand-new Drobo looking at you right now. Meanwhile, your Mac is happily making Time Machine backups to that trusty old local USB disk. So you want to use that new Drobo for Time Machine backups, but don’t want to loose history? Here’s how (baby steps, no tools required, screenshots included):

Read More “Move Time Machine data to a Drobo” »

Apple, Hardware

The Car Buying Story

Posted on 2010-01-10 By rolfje No Comments on The Car Buying Story

Stephen needs a new car. Being dilligent and a car lover, he takes the time to write down all criteria for a great car. When he finishes the list, he notices that the only car matching all his criteria is a Ferrari. Well, he always loved a Ferrari so that makes sense. To make things more realistic he adds another criteria, called “price”, and starts looking for alternatives.

Read More “The Car Buying Story” »

Apple, Fun, Hardware

Bill Gates works at Apple

Posted on 2009-09-13 By rolfje 1 Comment on Bill Gates works at Apple

Steve JobsI was happy to see Steve return on the Apple keynote of 9 September, because boy does Apple need somebody with clear vision. The introductions on the new iPod line are all over the place. Let me tell you why I think Steve has not been running the operation for the past few months:

Read More “Bill Gates works at Apple” »

Apple

iTunes 9: “Genre-Artist-Album” panes restored

Posted on 2009-09-11 By rolfje 29 Comments on iTunes 9: “Genre-Artist-Album” panes restored

iTunes 9 with 3 panesWhat I loved about iTunes is the three pane “Genre-Artist-Album” on top of my music list. It allowed me to quickly go through my music and find that great Anouk album I was looking for. After installing iTunes 9, it was gone. And I was sad. But I found a way to get it back.

Settings to get the panes back

Look at this screenshot (sorry, it’s in Dutch). In iTunes, select “View”, “Show Column Browser”. Now, put it on top by selecting “View”, “Column Browser”, “Top”. Voila, your trusted browser is at the top. You may need to add “Genre” and “Album” there, but you’ve already seen the options for that now, have you? 😉

Apple

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 … 11 Next
           

Recent Comments

  • rolfje on Methode Buijs uitgelegd
  • LinkedIn is at Peak Enshittifaction – Will Chatham's Blog on Linked-In not really Opt-in?
  • Hans j on 1N4148 diode as RF switch
  • Roaming Rhonda on DLNA on OSX, done right
  • Frans on How to fix a Krups XN2001 Nespresso machine

Tags

Anonimatron Apple backup design DIY DRM eclipse environment Fun gmail google hacking hamradio Hardware helicopter iphone ipod iTunes Java Keynote maven modelling motorcycle music news opinion oracle osx photo photography programming repair review security Software Steve Jobs T-Mobile technology Time Machine Ubuntu usability Utilities vacation windows Workshop

Categories

  • Apple (105)
  • Divorce (1)
  • Electronics (3)
  • Fun (57)
  • Games (7)
  • Hardware (72)
  • Microsoft (18)
  • Racing (14)
  • Software (134)
  • Uncategorized (65)
  • Workshop (20)

Archives

Copyright © 2025 www.rolfje.com.

Powered by PressBook WordPress theme