OSX find and display saved wifi password
https://www.mactip.net/how-to-find-a-saved-wi-fi-password-on-the-mac/ If you are like me once you entered a Wi-fi password, literally 2 seconds after it’s forgotten, so what happens when your colleague asks you for the password? Well it turns out it’s quite easy to accomplish on OSX (as long as you have…
OSX paste unformatted text / remove text formatting
So recently I found about what is for me one of the best keyboard shortcuts on OSX often I copy text from somewhere and whenever I paste it it comes with all the original formatting, which TBH mostly of the time is a pain (at…
Prevent OSX from idle sleep
There are several ways to prevent an OSX system to sleep when idle such as the caffeine application or changing the parameters in the System preferences However there is an even easier way to accomplish this without installing any extra apps, just open a terminal…
OSX Wi-fi and Ethernet network simultaneously connected and static routing
So recently I had a situation where I had my Ethernet and Wifi connected to 2 different networks in my MAC OS X, and I had a very specific use case for this I needed to use the Ethernet connection to access 1 specific host…
Install / build docker squash on OS X to reduce docker image size
Recently while I was trying to install a Docker related app called docker-squash on OSX El Capitan. For those who are not familiar with the utility; docker squash is a nice utility that reduces the size of docker images by removing the layers However when…
Jaspersoft Studio OSX jdk 8/7 not starting
Recently I downloaded Jaspersoft studio on my Mac OSX but I was having trouble laughing the app as the system kept telling me I needed the older runtime version of Java, as you can see from the screenshot below (sorry in french) Luckily this is…