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Exiftool has become an irreplaceable companion for organising and checking my image files. Checking JPEG File integrity Set File Modification Date to the Exif Date Bulk change Exif Dates/Times of images

Shell-Scripts have become a daily companion of mine over the last ten years. However, I used to develop those scripts just with a simple text editor and then tested the execution simply from the terminal. Having come to enjoy the perks of an IDE (during my excessive work with RStudio), the process of shell scripting …

IDE for Bash-/Shell-Scripting Read More »

Synology NAS has native support for HFS file systems (Apple’s previous standard file system). So, it is possible to connect a HFS-formatted external USB drive to a Synology NAS and directly copy the files to the NAS. However, there is one big issue: Mac OS applies another character encoding (utf-8-mac or utf8-D) to file (and …

Umlaut/Special Characters Issue over SMB on Mac and Synology NAS Read More »

The new MacBook Pro with the M1 chip is a giant leap in performance, energy efficiency, and value for money. So I upgraded from my 15-inch MBP 6-core i7 (2018) to a 13-inch M1 MBP (2020). However, my euphoria for the M1 MBP confined when I found out about the restriction of only one external …

M1 MacBook Pro (2020) with 4K Displays connected via DisplayLink USB – Benchmark Review Read More »

I am a dedicated fan of my UniFi Network infrastructure, my Sonos speaker system, and Spotify as a streaming platform. However, Sonos and Spotify did not work reliably within my home. My speakers did not appear in Spotify as Spotify-connect speakers. As Sonos playback had dropouts or latencies. Also, Airprint did not work reliably.  Forum …

Problem Solved: Interplay of Unifi, Spotify, and Sonos (and Airprint) Read More »