Category: Tech Tip

Using cURL to download a file

Hey Peter, it’s Peter. Just a quick reminder for when you forget the next time.

To download a file using cURL you can use either:

curl -O http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.js

Which’ll download the file in question and store it with the same name as on the server. Or you can use

curl -o yourCleverNameHere.please http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.js

Now you won’t need to look this up here next time.

Kind regards.

Yourself

Creating iso file from VIDEO_TS folder

Long story short.

Entire family…vacation…went on tour…bought DVD on tour…stupid Peter promised to make copies to everyone…error on DVD…copyied files (sans corrupt one of course) to Mac…now have VIDEO_TS folder on Mac…tries to burn to DVD…fails…swears…tries again…fails again…curses…tries again…fails yet again…goes to Google…finds solution.
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How to get your contacts birthday to appear in the calendar of your iPhone

OK, so you’ve bought an iPhone and you love it (disclaimer: of course I love my family more than my iPhone). You’ve imported all your contacts from your old phone (I did it manually). Next you’ve added birthdays for all your contacts so that you will never forget their birthday again. And now you expect these birthdays to appear in the calendar of your iPhone…but they don’t!
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How to get Time Machine to back up to a DS207+

Recently our little family became the happy owners of a Synology DS207+ NAS server.

After setting up and getting the basic services running (which didn’t take long…great job Synology!) I started wondering wether this new toy could be used in conjunction with Time Machine for backing up?

Surely I could not be the first person in the world to get that idea now, could I?
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