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Manage Apps On The Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is just another wearable with a limited feature set. In much the same way that the iPhone is just another phone. But they’re not. They have apps. And the apps are what make these devices so powerful. Installing apps on an Apple Watch is pretty straight forward. But before we do, it’s worth mentioning that there are two types. the first is a glance. This is just another view for an app that is on your iPhone that the Apple Watch talks to. The second is an actual app. These have more functionality and more options. There are also built-in apps that can be shown or hidden. Apps…
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systemstats in OS X
Ever wonder what your computer is up to? Ever wanted to know how much time the computer was awake for, how much battery was left, the exact percentage of use each core was taking up, how much CPU CrashPlan is using, etc? Well, lucky you, there’s systemstats. You just run it: systemstats And it tells you all kinds of juicy stuff. Summary ======= System Version: 13A598 Total Time: 195:13:01 Usage ===== Time on A/C: 165:42:24 Time on Battery: 29:30:35 Wake Time: 181:18:08 User Active: 46:46:18 User Idle: 134:31:49 Dark Wake Time: 00:01:15 Sleep Time: 13:53:37 Standby Time: 00:19:57 Battery ======= Time on Battery: 29:30:35 -10.2 %/hr -21576 mAh -7112 mW Wake:…
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Disabling Bluetooth Discoverable Mode
Awhile back I did a little article on Bluetooth. I also did an article on disabling menu items such as Bluetooth, using Managed Preferences. But I hadn’t looked at granular controls of Bluetooth settings. Luckily, a user submission on the topic just came in and Ted Kidd from Michigan (thanks, Ted!). Ted has provided a script for disabling Bluetooth’s Discoverable mode. His submission: I’ve found that more than a fair share of preferences are stored for each specific user on a computer. I’ve also found that some preferences are stored in a “ByHost” folder in /Users//Library/Preferences. Anything stored in the ByHost folder has the hardware UUID in the plist file…
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Mac OS X: Bluetooth
Ever wonder what the process is that manages Bluetooth on your machine? Well, it’s blued. Now, I’ve had the occasion where I wanted to outright disable blued, so I’ve actually renamed it or removed it from my system image. But what if you want to set any preferences for Bluetooth? Well, those are stored in the com.apple.Bluetooth.*.plist file. The * here is due to the fact that it’s based on your machine, thus a ByHost Preference. The location is /var/root/Library/Preferences/ByHost. So if you take that preference file and copy it to another machine it won’t actually work. The other machine will create another as it has a different machine address.…