If you are having issues with DNS in OS X Yosemite, you're not alone. Me too.
A less intense fix for the problems (that generally works for me) comes from these two articles on SE:
DNS doesn't work properly in OS X Yosemite
Yosemite Cannot Resolve Domain Names
Solution summary:
| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| """ A cross-platform (POSIX, at least) tool to list running IPython Notebooks | |
| and their working directories. | |
| This code will be incredibly simpler to write as of IPython 3.0, so | |
| contains numerous workarounds to make it work on 2.x. | |
| Thanks to @takluyver for the suggestions for improvement. |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Installing Adobe AIR creates an application called "Adobe AIR Uninstaller" in /Applications/Utilities. | |
| # Unfortunately, running this application does not uninstall the application and instead, it seems to | |
| # unhelpfully confirm that it's installed (http://twitter.com/modernscientist/status/495388916267384833/photo/1). | |
| # The proper way to run this application as an uninstaller is to run the enclosed from the command line | |
| # with the flag "-uninstall" as superuser: | |
| sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ AIR\ Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ AIR\ Installer -uninstall |
Download a Kindle-compatible version of the dictionary here. Unzip the .rar archive.
Get the "Send to Kindle" program on your computer. Here's the link for the Mac.
Right-click your recently downloaded (unzipped) dictionary file, and click the "Send to Kindle" menu item. It will arrive on your Kindle shortly.
Once the dictionary has arrived, go to your settings -- on my newish paperwhite, it's at Home > Settings > Device Options > Language and Dictionaries > Dictionaries > English. Choose the Webster's 1913.
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; pythonista://foo.py&action=run&argv=bar"/> | |
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> | |
| <script language="JavaScript"> | |
| setTimeout("self.close()", 500); | |
| </script> | |
| </head> |
| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| # -*- coding:utf-8 -*- | |
| import re | |
| import csv | |
| import sys | |
| from datetime import datetime | |
| tweets = csv.reader(open("tweets.csv"), delimiter=',', quotechar='"') |
| // bookmarklet template for Pinswift | |
| // This can be copied into a bookmarklet maker like: | |
| // http://chriszarate.github.io/bookmarkleter/ | |
| // Or used with Gruber's script | |
| // http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder | |
| var href = location.href; | |
| var path = 'pinswift://x-callback-url/add'; |
| tell application "Mail" | |
| set _sel to get selection | |
| set _links to {} | |
| repeat with _msg in _sel | |
| set _messageURL to "message://%3c" & _msg's message id & "%3e" | |
| set end of _links to _messageURL | |
| end repeat | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return | |
| set the clipboard to (_links as string) | |
| end tell |
| $ defaults write com.pilotmoon.popclip UseShortTitles -bool YES | |
| $ killall PopClip && open -a PopClip |
