1. Grab a copy of ExifTools from https://github.com/alchemy-fr/exiftool
2. Run exiftool '-filename<CreateDate' -d '%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S%%-c.%%le' -r /Users/Depicus/Desktop/Videos

Easy

So it was time to replace my sofa laptop (a nice light one I do bits and bobs on and is currently a MacBook Air 11″) so I looked at the new MacBook Pro 13″ with Touch Bar. The first “con” is that while Apple sells base systems to resellers you can only buy a fully specced out model from Apple direct. And that means no discount.

So I ordered a near fully specced out MacBook Pro 13″ which wasn’t cheap but as it was Black Friday Apple were offering a “free” £120 gift card, and by free they meant they charge you £120 for it. Ok they take that off the price of the laptop but there are two problems with that.

First this is for work so I can claim it back on taxes but they invoice you £120 less on the laptop and don’t provide an invoice for the gift card. So I’ve lost £120 in taxable deductions, bummer but not then end of the world.

However secondly if like me the shitty DHL fail to deliver and like me you cannot wait 2 weeks to get a replacement from China then you’ll be refunded the cost of the laptop but not the gift card which is non-returnable. And what’s the point of a £120 gift card for Apple when there are few things you cannot get elsewhere cheaper, especially the tat they pass off as cables at some incredible prices.

Lesson learnt – never buy from anybody who used DHL and avoid Apple Online Stores as the support is pretty crap.

Sad really.

This is just a reminder to myself as finder doesn’t find all files so…

sudo find / -size +1G

If you need to get the sex from Health then ask the normal way but add sex

In your .h file

@property (nonatomic, readwrite) HKHealthStore *healthStore;

then in your .m file in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions or anywhere appropriate.

// Set up an HKHealthStore, asking the user for read/write permissions.
    if ([HKHealthStore isHealthDataAvailable]) {
        self.healthStore = [[HKHealthStore alloc] init];
        NSSet *writeDataTypes = [self dataTypesToWrite];
        NSSet *readDataTypes = [self dataTypesToRead];
        
        [self.healthStore requestAuthorizationToShareTypes:writeDataTypes readTypes:readDataTypes completion:^(BOOL success, NSError *error) {
            
            if (!success) {
                NSLog(@"You didn't allow HealthKit to access these read/write data types. In your app, try to handle this error gracefully when a user decides not to provide access. The error was: %@.", error);
                return;
            }
            
            // Handle success in your app here.
            
        }];
    }

Now we have healthStore and can ask for data… if we were ok above.

HKBiologicalSexObject *sex = [self.healthStore biologicalSexWithError:&error];
    if (!error) {
        NSLog(@"you are %d sex",sex.biologicalSex);
        
        switch(sex.biologicalSex)
        {
            case 1:
                // female
                break;
            case 2:
                // male
                break;
            default:
                // do nothing
                break;
        }
    }

which returns 0 for no sex, 1 for female and 2 for male.

Sometimes folders need to live outside your Dropbox folder so simply symlink them.

1. Open Terminal and cd to your Dropbox folder

2. type  ln -s /folder/anotherfolder

Done.

Simply open terminal and type

sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Then find the line

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

and remove the hashtag, save then type

sudo apachectl restart

to restart Apache.