Convert HEIC files to JPG on Ubuntu

Apple uses High Efficiency Image File Format for Photo’s and this in photo’s with the .HEIC extension. you can easily convert this on Ubuntu using;

sudo apt-get install libheif-examples

for photo in *.HEIC; do heif-convert $photo ${photo/%.HEIC/.jpg}; done

Alternatively you could disable the HEIF format on your iPhone under Settings > Camera; https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207022

PL2303 USB-Serial on Mac OS X El Capitan

After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.11.1, the PL2303 USB-serial driver didn’t work any more.

I used minicom for console connection. In my old configuration my device was /dev/tty.usbserial. After installing the driver from www.mac-usb-serial.com the changed to /dev/cu.Repleo-PL2303-00001014.

Find this with:

$ ls /dev/cu.*
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port /dev/cu.Repleo-PL2303-00001014

Starting minicom -s you can easily follow the menu and change this.

scrolling to fast in Visio on Windows 7 Parallels VM

I was working in Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) with Parallels Desktop Version 10.1.1 for Mac. When I was editing a file in Microsoft Visio 2013 the scrolling extremely fast. I couldn’t scroll normally vertical or horizontal within Visio.

Parallels has a smooth scolling options which you can find in you settings -> Hardware -> Mouse & Keyboard.
Just disable “Enable smooth scrolling” and you scrolling if Visio is workable again.

enable smooth scrolling