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Printopia is a great tool for exposing non-Air Print printers on a local network so that you can print to them from any iOS device. But even better is that it can expose <emany PDF Workflow to do your bidding. In my case, I wanted to do n-up printing (n…
7 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
We just published results with improvements in Thread Pool in Percona Server: Percona Server: Thread Pool Improvements for Transactional Workloads Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Thread Pool What I am happy to see is that Percona Server is able to…
5 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
This is the first in a series of posts highlighting a few of the seldom-used but still handy Percona Toolkit tools. Have you ever had a problem understanding the EXPLAIN statement output? And are you the type of person who would rather use the command line…
3 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
When we are hired for a MySQL performance audit, we are expected to review the MySQL configuration and to suggest improvements. Many people are surprised because in most cases, we only suggest to change a few settings even though hundreds of options are…
28 January 2014MySQL Performance Blog
The other day I was working on an issue where one of the slaves was showing unexpected lag. Interestingly with only the IO thread running the slave was doing significantly more IO as compared to the rate at which the IO thread was fetching the binary log…
21 January 2014Macworld
I recently had a problem with one of my mail accounts (and before you ask, no, it wasn’t Gmail under Mavericks). The issue was that the account, which is provided by Dreamhost, is located on a mail server named one thing (mail.doombot.com), but is secured…
6 December 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Often during the holidays people begin to think about updating their home, their furniture, or just rearranging. MyFourWalls (U.S. $29.99) for Mac may be just the ticket to help you visualize those changes. The app contains some intuitive tools to set your…
29 November 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Developer Saied Ghaffari and his company It's About Time have been busy digging through the details of OS X Mavericks to find a bunch of tips and tricks for the new Mac operating system. In the new iBook 90 OS X Mavericks and Legacy Tips, Tricks & Secrets…
29 October 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
It's always fun to find out what all the new hidden features that an operating system upgrade provides, and OS X Mavericks is chock-full of goodies. The folks over at Lifehacker put together a quick video that shows off a number of features that you may…
24 October 2013Macworld
[Editor's note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Mavericks.] [Note: We’ve updated this article with a third—and faster—method (using the createinstallmedia command in Terminal) now that we’ve had a chance to…
23 October 2013