The contact management in normal Google and Google Apps accounts is somewhat painful as it does not necessarily work as expected – tips on how to get it working are e.g. available on lifehacker.com. If you use OSX & iOS and have ever suffered from disappearing contacts, here is what you can do: 1. login … Read more
Since Apple has released Mavericks, Vectorworks 2011 no longer runs on Macs with 10.9 / Mavericks – although this has been widely criticised, Nemetschek is most likely to stick with its policy to only provide support for the last 2 versions of Vectorworks. An overview on which version runs on what is available here. Currently … Read more
To convert a mobile (a.k.a. portable home directory) to a local user account do the following: Update 28/02/2014 If you are using network user accounts on 10.7 / Lion and later, you will also have to do the following: 1. login to network user account; 2. go to System preferences > Users & Groups > … Read more
We have started to use the excellent Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to sync various Folders on a File Server to a dropbox account to share its content ‘automatically’ with an external party. Initially we had some problems, as we had simply scheduled a Backup Tlan to run every hour, which resulted in a couple of … Read more