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Lately, Apple has decided to only support so called “Microsims” in their devices.

Unfortunately, I, as an user of the iPhone 3GS, am not able anymore to use my “normal” simcard in both, my iPhone and, say, an iPad. On the internet there are hundreds of tutorials on how to cut your sim to make it fit the microsim-standard. Well, they work, as I tested one of these myself, but that’s not what I wanted to do right now.

I wanted to be able to use my sim in my iPhone AND in an iPad. If I’d cut it down to microsim-size, it won’t fit my 3GS’ simslot.

So, here is my solution: the multiformat SIM.

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For my studies I often receive some PDFs with Information from my professors.

Unfortunately, some of them think they do really secret stuff, so they happen to password-protect their PDFs… What they do not think about is, that entering the password everytime I only want to lookup something, is pretty annoying, after all. Indeed, not even spotlight is able to search through these PDFs, thus it wouldn’t find anything in there.

Well, lately I discovered a way to remove this password-protection using Preview.app. Note: Only works with known password!

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Some of you who using Mac OS X knowing this problem. If you download a file and after you want to open it, you get this warning: “xxx is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?”. It is annoying… And if you look into the system preferences, you don’t find any way to disable it. Possible it is, to disable the service self.

Here you must open the Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

If you want to activate the service again, then enter the following one:

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool YES

After you do this, reboot your mac and enjoy.

•  German

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Wer Programme nach dem Systemstart automatisch starten lassen möchte, oder eben genau dieses verhindern will, findet den “Autostart” beim Mac in den Systemeinstellungen unter Benutzer und dann in dem Tab Anmeldeobjekte.

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Lately, my Pages was completely in English, but sometimes I also wanted to write something in German. Unfortunately, this text was underlined red. Now, to switch back to German, you have to open the “Inspector” (Shortcut ⌥ ⌘ I).

Here you have the opportunity to choose whatever language you like. Advice: Clicking the point All makes it easier.

•  German