❯ Guillaume Laforge

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Turning a Website Into a Desktop Application

Probably like most of you, my dear readers, I have too many browser windows open, with tons of tabs for each window. But there are always apps I come back to very often, like my email (professional & personal), my calendar, my chat app, or even social media sites like Mastodon or Twitter. You can switch from window to window with CTRL/CMD-Tab, but you also have to move between tabs potentially. Read more...

Mac trick: change Time Machine backup interval

If you think Time Machine is backing up your Mac too often, you can customize the interval between two automatic scheduled backups. I found that trick on MacYourself. Open up a Terminal, and change the value, in seconds, of the interval (here 7200 seconds == 2 hours instead of the standard one hour): sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 7200 Update: This doesn’t seem to work on Mac OS X Lion, although it worked in previous versions (like Leopard). Read more...