Advantages:
Removing ads
Not having to remember every IP for devices on your network (if you don't have bonjour for some reason) by using a local domain.
https://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/
In my opinion, the time saved from a local caching server is about zero seconds. Don't waste your time unless you need one of these two reasons above or just want to learn how to do it.
It's probably because of this: https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-performance-issues-3029a164ce94
The title says iOS 8; but it affects both Yosemite and iOS 8.
EDIT: OP, please read the linked Medium-post. I am hundred percent certain that your issue is what is described there. It has to do with AirDrop and Apple implementing WiFi-channel switching wrongly. This issue is also present on iOS.
These are the steps I followed to get it:
If there is sufficient interest, I can write a more detailed tutorial on my website.
Edit: I figured this out on my own. Just now I did some Googling and realized that (obviously) this has been done before. See this OSXDaily post for a detailed tutorial.
Consider using CheatSheet, it shows a list of all the available keyboard shortcuts in an app by holding down the command key. It literally allows you to cheat.
Just one thing to note here - Caffeine, while still functioning, hasn't been updated in several years. The mantle has been picked up by new software; KeepingYouAwake. It supports Yosemite (style, dark mode compatibility) as well as Retina screens (2x icons).
AWS is Amazon Web Services, a massive suite of cloud computing services. basically when you send an iMessage it doesn't just zip directly from your device to the recipient's device. it gets sent to a server somewhere convenient (as others have stated, sometimes it's an AWS server, sometimes it's a Microsoft Azure server, sometimes it's an Apple owned server), it's destination is processed, and then it gets sent out to the recipient. sometimes if the recipient isn't immediately available, the message/image will sit there for a bit. apple deploys encryption techniques on the sender and recipient sides, so there server never really knows what it's receiving/sending, just that a certain set of bits is going from one place to another and sometimes gets stored for a little longer.
Pages '09 Is going to be 10 years old, so it was inevitable that it would stop working at some point with newer OS's. I personally like the latest version of Pages. True it loses some compatibility with legacy programs, but there's no reason to avoid it just based on that for new documents.
If you don't like the newer, supported version of Pages, you can still use the built-in Text Edit.app to do quick and dirty word processing files that can be saved to Word, RTF or PDF formats. If you need something more advanced, you can try the jack-of-all-trades app Libre Office, but be warned that it is not as tightly integrated with the macOS as Pages will be.
Hmm that's not good indeed, thanks for noticing. Considering how important internet privacy is in the past few years, some of the points you mention are pretty shocking such as storing credentials or emails, there are certainly much better ways to handle things.
I'm staying with Airmail on both iOS and macOS for time being. It's not perfect but does the job and sync's using iCloud, which is secure, plus doesn't store messages on server.
For anyone really concerned with privacy, check out ProtonMail, which has data centres in Switzerland, operating under Swiss law, quite good alternative.
Sidestep son! It does exactly what you're asking for.
EDIT: I would like to add that it may not be entirely possible to route ALL your traffic through a proxy server... it would depend if the app/service has proxy support or not. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
If you're willing to commit a bit of money, then I heartily recommend getting a small raspberry pi and installing pihole.
Network wide adblocking on all devices and even in apps. It's fantastic.
First, on your old installation, if you have any drm enabled purchases from iTunes, go ahead and deauthorize that computer from your account. (this way, you don't waste one of the five authorizations on a system that "technically" won't exist anymore)
Next, use Super Duper (free to do what you need to do) to clone your internal drive to an external drive. (having a clone of your old system is vital to a reinstall, because without one you will always lose a few things in the transition that you didn't think you needed to keep, but wish you had, and things you simply forgot about)
Next, reformat the internal (or system, whatever you're calling it) hard drive (you'll do this from disk utility somewhere in the menu bar (I think in the utilities menu) when running off the install disk).
Next, reinstall the OS. Once that is done, and before you do anything else, run the software update over and over until everything is updated.
At this point, you will reinstall any software you want to have, like you said.
Next, activate this computer in iTunes to play any DRM protected music or video.
Finally, copy the things you know you want to keep like documents and your music and video library.
Keep that external drive around for a few months. You'll come across a few things you'll need that you would have forgotten about otherwise, like maybe saved games that are stored in weird places, or Slide Pad notes, things like that.
After this, you should be pretty well set up.
Krita is another free and open option. Although it's a bit more focused on painting.
Not free, but very reasonable priced, is Affinity Photo, my current favorite. There's a free trial.
Really? According to this report by AV-Test (an independent security agency) Windows Defender is still just as effective as its competitors. The advantage of Windows Defender in my opinion is that it doesn't slow your computer down or mess with the network settings, as I've seen some antivirus programs do during my job as IT support at my university.
I use VMware extensively and can highly recommend it.
However, are you tied to OriginLab for any reason? If you are, ignore this :P but if not...
I know nothing about OriginLab beyond their landing page but from my brief glance it looks like R may be able to do what you want. I'm an Econ/Finance undergrad and I use R like crazy for analysis. It's an awesome open-source, cross-platform data crunching beast.
You could build a workflow in Automator to do this for you. The first example here is close to what you probably want to do: https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac
All gamers should check out SmoothMouse. It allows you to change the mouse acceleration on your mouse and trackpad independently. I use "Like Windows" for my mouse, and normal like OS X for the trackpad.
I have seen some software options todo this - but not with hardware and so seamless. I have tried https://www.duetdisplay.com which is software based and its not as smooth as they claim but it definitely works. This is claiming to be very smooth.
I definitely recommend Fantastical in spite of the price. The natural language parser is simply priceless. I find that everything about Fantastical is geared towards speed and simplicity.
Another option would be Moleskin Timepage although I've never used the app myself.
Another option is to use the default calendar.app along with the built in calendar in Outlook or Spark Mail , for example.
Video CD? Really? What year is this?! =)
For what it's worth, I think Burn will author VCD. It's not been updated in quite some time, but I think still works on modern systems.
One of the first things I install on a fresh OSX install. =)
(I actually find the "Like in Windows" setting to be my personal preference… much less aggressive acceleration curve)
10.6 and 10.7 no longer receive security updates, so I'd say yes, they're too old. Check out http://www.mactracker.ca/ and see what it says for the serial number and what's the latest version of the OS you can put on there.
MacDrive works great and has a fully functional 5 day trial.
For truly free and a little more techie, there's HFSexplorer
Have fun.
SwitchResX is what you're looking for, although it's a bit complicated. This guide should give you an idea of what you need to do to pull it off.
You can use apps to accomplish this. I've used Spectacle (http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/66936) and it works really well for this.
More recently, I started using Hammerspoon (http://www.hammerspoon.org/) as it allows you to make your own shortcuts and macros. Very powerful.
From my own experience, what is listed there appears to prefer the DNS hostname over whatever name you assign in the Sharing preferences.
So, the extremely short version of what I believe is happening is that your router is giving out an invalid or null host name when OS X is asking for one.
In the command prompt, try running this:
echo $HOSTNAME
This should be whatever hostname the computer thinks it's using (and might not return anything).
There are most likely two ways of dealing with this:
If you can access your router verify the DHCP Client ID and/or DNS names. This might not actually be possible, so if it isn't don't sweat it.
Try following the advice listed in this thread. Personally, I would try using the scutil version first. These work by overriding the hostname on the systems.
If your goal is to have access to your media library on the go, Plex might be a better choice. It also allows you to access your itunes library as well.
But if you just want to run a vpn server, you should be able to install a vpn server (like openvpn) from macports or homebrew for free.
There is a reason OS X disables write access to NTFS filesystems by default: because it's buggy (meaning it can cause the loss or corruption of your data).
Do not do this.
Instead, buy a third-party NTFS plugin for OS X; I personally recommend this one. (Is the safety and integrity of your data not worth $20?)
This may not be the kind of advice you're looking for, but why not dabble in programming in general while you wait for Swift to come out, and then make your decision, based off other people's advice or otherwise?
Since you have no programming experience, it may be a decent idea to teach yourself the fundamentals (language doesn't really matter here, though I guess you could use Obj-C) first. Basic logic, functions, recursion, making a text-based Tic-Tac-Toe (in as little lines as you can!). Get familiar with programming things, and the way of thinking you use in doing so.
But as I said, that may not be what you're looking to do. There's nothing inherently wrong with diving right in, getting down to business. It can be quite fun a learning experience, but I personally find I can understand the underlying principles better when I learn them by using them without a lot of "noise" around them.
Also, Cocoa Dev Central is a pretty resource. I strongly advise you not to pay for courses for which the information is widely available on the internet. Sure, quality isn't guaranteed, and $40 isn't all that much, but there's a lot of great resources out there.
And remember to have fun! Programming's great, but take breaks if you get frustrated with something. It's all worth it in the end.
.PSD's and .ICNS's can be found at this link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6ehACthCH3qZmNvMGltN3kza3M&usp=sharing
I know that Yosemite will have different icons, but it's easy to change the folder layer in the photoshop files to fix this.
EDIT: Messed up the title. Make that folder icons, not wallpapers.
Spaces are no more problematic than with any other BASH shell I've encountered. Check out: Quotes and escaping.
What I find annoying is that the default OS X file system doesn't entirely recognize case in filenames. E.g., try this sometime:
cp foo.text Foo.text
No wonder a certain, famously hyperbolic Finn called HFS+ “complete and utter crap.”
I haven't tried this, but you should check out IFTT. There's probably something you could throw together. If not netflix specific, then maybe just have it trigger the spacebar to pause?
I found the solution: http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks-laptop-support/133254-adding-using-hidpi-custom-resolutions.html
It took some time before I managed to do everything right, but it really works!
I can't speak highly enough of You Need A Budget. Using for a year or so I've nearly tripled the amount of money I have on hand. Partly due to changing my spending habits, partly to due to better organization and planning. They offer a free trial to try it out for a month or so. They also offer free online courses to help you get started. There's an OSX and iPhone app that use cloud sync to keep thugs up to date.
Get Lyrical works like a charm for me. It has an active tagging option, or you can tag selection, or tag current. Here's a link if you want to check it out.
I did it with SuperDuper. My SSD came with an SATA to usb cable and I just plugged in the drive and SuperDuper copied the drive one on one.
The only problem with the layout right now is that your recovery partition has the wrong type listed. This can be fixed simply by running the following:
sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 --settype Apple_Boot
If you're on El Capitan, you will need to temporarily disably SIP to be able to run that command. Afterwards, Disk Utility will treat it like it's supposed to, allowing you to shuffle it around as you grow your main partition.
The triple-boot won't be difficult, especially with your model; native EFI booting is all it supports, so you'll be able to repartition, etcetera without having to worry about bootloaders. Start by installing Windows via the normal, guided Boot Camp process. Once that's complete, you may shrink either or both of OS X and Windows' partitions to make room for the new ones.
To actually be able to pick from any of the OS's when booting, start with the utterly amazing rEFInd. It's possible to set up the Mac's built-in boot manager too, but you can worry about that later.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
If you don't meet the requirements for that and your Mac still works, you could use something like Synergy to move your mouse and keyboard between the two computers. Might be better than nothing, since you could use that to control YouTube, etc. on the Mac that's not your primary machine.
To do that you need to buy Audio Hijack – it will combine your microphone and Skype sound and pass it into the QuickTime for recording. Take some time before the interview to learn how to use it.
Yes, they are. This should be informed in app:
https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy
> Accounts are added to Spark through OAuth where possible. Where OAuth is not supported we keep your account username and password on our secure servers. We then use the authorization provided to download your emails to our virtual servers and push to your device.
Sadly its a known issue with the 2012 and 2013 rMBPs. I need to get mine replaced. Luckily Apple will do it for free, even past your warranty.
Check here: https://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Here is a guide to get you started. Settings may vary depending on what the original OS was for your machine. Check to make sure your machine can run the latest OS (currently Yosemite). Also, make a bootable Yosemite installer disk before wiping it. I believe the linked article has instructions for that as well.
Disable the preview for icons: http://osxdaily.com/2013/01/10/disable-finder-icon-thumbnails-previews-mac-os-x/
If you're the more technical type, wander over to /System/Library/QuickLook/ and find the qlgenerator for that specific filetype and remove it.
It's possible to get a basic calendar in notification centre, I've got one at the moment that looks like this: http://imgur.com/gEp2gqz
The easiest way is to follow the steps in this link: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/replace-geektool-entirely-yosemites-notification-center/
I remember having to play around with it a bit to get the three months showing simultaneously but just let me know if you want me to post the script for it.
My guess is that you're running High Sierra and you've encountered the "sleep of death" bug.
I'm really interested to know if any of the suggestions below help.
First try resetting the PRAM and SMC as these are easiest options to try. https://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2017/06/14/how-when-why-to-reset-the-pram-smc-on-your-mac/
If these don't help, I would suggest a clean install. It's not difficult and has helped me solve crashing issues with macOS. You shouldn't lose any data in the process, it can take a couple of hours, but if it solves your problem it's probably worth it.
Google Drive link: Mavericks
Download the entire folder.
And in case you need to make a bootable USB drive: Diskmaker X
You could try LiteIcon to change the icons or change them manually. (Select App, Ctrl+I, select Icon in the upper left, Paste previously copied Mavericks-icon from Clipboard with Ctrl-V, or just drag and drop it onto it)
Side note: I found Boot Champ to be a very handy little utility that allows you to boot fast into Windows in an easy way on the fly, without re-configuring your boot options in System Prefs or using keyboard options.....
It looks like you have corrupt font caches.
Download this app, read the instructions and nuke your font caches. The OS will rebuild new font caches after your Mac reboots.
FontNuke for Mac - Removes font cache files. MacUpdate.com
"." files are special hidden files that OS X uses to maintain window position and appearance for each directory. OS X creates them each time you navigate to a directory.
These are always hidden in OS X so you never see them. Of course Windows has no knowledge of this so you see them (and they are ignored).
If you don't want OS X to create them, use Tinker Tool which has an option to turn off creation of .DS_STORE files
I cannot think of a solution to exactly what you are asking for, but I'll comment again if I do... I'm thinking something in path finder could potentially help...
However, Hazel is a great little piece of software that will automatically sort your files for you based on file attributes of all sorts (site downloaded from, file extension, associated opening program, dimensions/size, etc)
for window management there's a bunch of alternatives, spectacle is free and simple.
keyboard maestro should solve all your hotkey needs too
I do. I'm the founder of @LoveQuicksilver on Twitter, and the LoveQuicksilver blog at blog.qsapp.com
If Quicksilver isn't running, it takes me about a minute of staring at my Mac to start doing anything. :)
Quicksilver stuff I do all the time:
It does take effort to use Quicksilver at anywhere near its full potential, but there's a lot of support out there: http://qsapp.com/support.php
I don't develop Quicksilver.
tmux can do this. You would set up your a tmux session with the shell screens you wanted (and tmux can have more than one terminal window panes). Then when you're done, instead of closing the terminal, you disconnect from the tmux session. Then when you want to have those terminal windows open again, you just reconnect to the session, and it's like you never left.
tmux works in the macOS Terminal app or any other Unix shell, but requires a few key commands to be memorised and has a bit of a learning curve. iTerm2 has tmux integration and feels much more like a macOS app to use.
iterm2 has a paste slowly option.
Edit > Paste Slowly
"Paste Slowly" pastes the current string in the clipboard, but it doesn't send the whole string at once. It is sent in batches of 16 bytes with a 125ms delay between batches. These values can be tweaked with hidden settings. For example:
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 SlowPasteBytesPerCall -int 16
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 SlowPasteDelayBetweenCalls -float 0.125
If I'm reading this correctly, that shell command will find all WAV files in the folder that you run the Automator action on, then run lame
on each file that it finds. I'm not at my Mac to test this, but the command
/usr/local/bin/lame -V 0 -q 0 "$1"
is a blind stab at what you might want instead.
Some debug steps that you can take in the Terminal: file /usr/local/bin/lame
will tell you if lame
is where that shell command is expecting it to be -- if it is, you'll see something about an executable, if not, you'll see something about the file not being found. You didn't mention Homebrew, but that command is likely expecting you to have installed lame
with Homebrew (see their webpage for more) using the command, I'm guessing, brew install lame
.
Typing cd /path/to/your/test/files
will change directory into that folder (you can also type "cd" and a space, then drag the folder you want to go to into the Terminal and it will insert the path for you), then you can type /usr/local/bin/lame -V 0 -q 0
and then type a file name to see what that command does. The tab key can be used to autocomplete the path or the filename, which helps avoid typos.
If that does what you want, you know the problem is in getting the Automator script to run the command properly. Again, I'm not at my Mac to try this, but you might be able to add another action after that to send the text output of that command to a file for you to read.
Developer here. Yes. Just about any UNIX (these days that just means Linux) app should compile on OSX so long as it isn't super-platform-specific.
But first you'll need the full unix toolset for building.
Take a look at Brew or MacPorts (install one of them but not both!).
I looked at the actual package you linked. Once you get python3 and pip installed you should be able to follow the Linux instructions just fine and it should install as if it were on a Linux system.
As far as I know they're actively working on better support for OS X:
> Another little project was updating our build-systems for Windows, OSX, and Linux. We fully intend to make Krita 3.0 as supported on OSX as on Windows and Linux, and to that end, we got ourselves a faster Mac.
Do you have an external drive for backups? Get one. Start backing up. You can get a few terabytes for like a hundred bucks these days. That way the next time this happens you can just roll back to the last backup instead of starting from scratch, which will also have the bonus of not losing your only copy of your dissertation or whatever.
The only programs on your list that I have are VLC and the Adobe suite. I use Transmission for torrents, fwiw.
If you are torrenting pirated software then that might be the cause of your woes.
I use ControlPlane for just that. I have it configured to disable my password when my computer connected is to my home wifi, and to enable my password when it's not connected. It took a bit of time to figure it out, but now it works exactly as intended.
Mailmate is what I use. It isn't free, but it runs completely locally, no cloud anything. It's also got extremely powerful search/smart mailbox functionality. If you liked Thunderbird, you'll probably find MailMate to be similar, they're both "old-fashioned" mail clients in a way.
The biggest limitations of MailMate is that it only supports IMAP, no Exchange or POP. It's got some special support for Gmail's unique implementation, but otherwise it's IMAP or nothing. When sending email, it uses Markdown, so you'll need to be familiar with that to send more than plain-text (and if you do a lot of rich HTML/image sending, it might be cumbersome.)
There aren't a lot of other non-cloud email clients that I know of. Mail.app is the only other one that comes to mind. The latest trend is toward cloud-based, and those require a server somewhere to have access to your stuff.
Torguard, Tunnelbear, HideIPVPN. If you only want USA, buy HideIPVPN; if you want all around the world, buy Torguard; if you want better apps and usability with small number of countries, buy Tunnelbear.
Used tens of VPNs for years for review purposes (from Europe), this three are the ones I liked best.
Oh ok. The installers are just VPN clients, nothing nefarious if you stick to tried-and-tested solutions and most have free trials for you to try out before committing to purchase. It's usually USD5 to 10. A friend of mine is using StrongVPN and I'm using my ISP's proxy service to get US content in my country. Able to stream HD so it's worth it.
You can search for free ones but speeds will always be flaky.
Can't help you regarding AnyConnect though. Hope you can your stuff sorted out. Cheers!
It stands for both the Roman numeral 10 and for UNIX.
Edit: this has almost become a tradition among UNIX and UNIX-like systems. They usually end with the letter X or have an X in their names; in order to show what they are based on or where they are derived from.
Take the operating systems Linux, Minix or neXT. They all are UNIX-based systems and have X at or near the end of the name.
Lastly, until Apple decides to give OSX a complete overhaul, it will most likely stay so named. They already dropped the Mac OS from it because they felt it was unnecessary and enough of a departure from Mac OS 9, to warrant just calling it OSX.
Edit 2: Whoever down voted me should do a little research. State facts and get downvoted...
Worst case get a hard drive reader like this.....
Apricorn DriveWire USB 2.0 to IDE/PATA/SATA Universal Hard Drive Adapter ADW-USB-KIT (Red) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QY9KIS/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_g8vAub045REZ1
You can connect it with sata to usb and attach it any pc / Mac and read the data like an external USB drive.
I believe you're doing it right but have you ever seen those .DS_Store files around on your system? Those store the layout that you're describing, every single folder will have one in, I re-did mine once and I had to run a command to delete them all (which is safe) and then re-do the default folder view.
Then when you go in to new folders it should adopt your new default and then recreate the .DS_Store file and save the layout.
The command you need to do in terminal is this:
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm {} \;
This will find all the .DS_Store files and delete them so you can then re-do the default view. Make sure you copy and paste it exactly, if something is left out bad bad things will happen like everything being deleted. Ensure the text in terminal looks the same as above before hitting enter.
As with all commands given to you on the internet it's best to have a basic understanding what they're doing before you run them, there's an article here which has some more info so you know it's okay to run (it may take some time to complete depending on how many there are).
It’s possible that Preview.app is still trying to open that old+big file, making its parsing/rendering service stall. If that’s the case, you can tell Preview.app not to reopen documents using this tip — it won’t try to reopen that offending file the next time you use the application. That article also shows how to reenable the resume feature.
> https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Ditto.
I also submitted this question to apple discussions, so if enough people click on "I have this question too"- maybe some developer will take a look at the bug.
You can’t sync with iOS currently (and who knows if they will integrate it into iCloud), but there’s already text expansion built into OS X.
Big long discussion on Hacker News here.
Some have reported it's a bug that has something to do with headphones being connected or music playing when you close the lid.
One HNer reports this:
Workaround: - First. stop playing music (in your browser, itunes or whatever). - Next wait 5 minutes - Last, close lid (go to sleep) and open again again.
i use Afloat. the website says it's for 10.7 but it's been working fine on mavericks. you can even set a shortcut to keep things "afloat." i would say the only downside to it is that it doesn't work with a lot of programs
Works great, depending on the speed of the USB and drive. I have a spare SSD with a USB3 connector and it's actually pretty fast. Use SuperDuper! to make a bootable backup copy of your existing system.
I've been using Max for years. The only complaint I have is the file conversion window doesn't automatically open - you have to select "File->Convert Files...". Then it's just a matter of selecting (or drag-n-dropping) the files I want to convert onto the window.
I used to use Switch, but it's no longer free.
yes with xtrafinder https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
Thats terrible design on apples part, especially considering that there isn't any way to change that function. One size simply doesn't fit all and thats a major flaw in apples business model.
> you can't download the Xcode 7 betas outside of the Apple Developer Program
Actually, it is free to the general public, and has been since the day of the keynote. (I know, it surprised me too.)
That being said, Xcode 7 is a buggy pile of shit. I don't get why of all things, Apple's IDE is the only thing that is prone to crashing every few minutes. I vividly remember the same thing happened with 6 last year, too.
The documentation for the sublime command-line tool says that -w
(or --wait
) causes the command not to exit until the file is closed. Otherwise, the command quits as soon as Sublime is launched, which means it runs completely independent from the terminal.
For the record, it’s OS X, not OSX.
I'll live and die by Sublime Text. It can do regex-based search and then some, and it handles enormous files fine unless you try interting cursors at either end simultaneously.
If you weren't looking for nagware, TextMate is a close second.
If you only need it for retrieving old text and images in your clipboard, I really like ClipMenu. Very customisable and lightweight and also provides some advanced functionality for scripting.
FWIW, you don't use a VPN for a browser. A VPN encrypts all of your computer's internet traffic. It runs separately from the browser - at least it should. I use Private Internet Access and connect via a program called Viscosity.
Firefox - because it's 64bit and I can use something like FoxyProxy to define multiple proxy servers and not use the system wide proxy that Safari is only capable of doing.
I like Chrome, but it's only 32bit, and won't work with some of the software (mainly Juniper VPN) as they require a 64bit version of Java. If Google ever ports Chrome for Mac from 32bit to 64bit I'd probably use that exclusively.
Safari is nice, but the fact that I can't use anything other than a system wide proxy for it stops me from using it more.
I’d check for two things: 1) Are there any firmware updates for the new 1 TB drive from Samsung? Some vendors supply macOS firmware update utilities but not sure about Samsung. You can check firmware versions in System Information (hold down option, select Apple menu, and it is the top option). 2) Verify TRIM is enabled. You can also verify this in System Information. It is most likely disabled by default. More instructions on enabling TRIM: http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/29/use-trimforce-trim-ssd-mac-os-x/
Within Photos.app…
Outside of Photo.app, you'll either need to manually peruse the package contents of the *.photoslibrary file, or have some know-how of bash
:
Masters/<YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>/<YYYYMMDD>-<HHMMSS>/<files>
, where <HHMMSS>
appears to be the import time, but YYYY
, MM
, DD
, all refer to capture time (year, month, and date, respectively)bash
, you could run the following: cp /path/to/library.photoslibrary/Masters/????/??/??/????????-??????/* /path/to/destination/folder/.
*
with .{JPG,MOV}
or some subset of the two extensions if you want to copy only images (*.JPG
) or movies (*.MOV
).You are trapped in the infinite time loop. You are Dormammu and Apple is Doctor Strange. LOL
But you need to remove the caches and temporaries of Mac App Store to quit the time loop. Here is the tutorial: http://osxdaily.com/2016/10/08/mac-app-store-temp-cache-folder/
I hope it work for you.
If I understand correctly you are asking how to switch from mirrored to extended and back.
This article, http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/27/mirror-display-mac-keyboard-shortcut/ says that this is possible with Command + F1
Additionally, since you never use it, you might as well turn it off and gain back the resources it uses (not that much, but every little bit helps). See here for info on turning it off.
I use DuckDuckGo so I can use bangs (e.g. !r subreddit, !yt somevideo, !wiki leo).
Safari also lets you search through websites, but you have to have searched in that website before and need to include the site name (which means that after you searched through wikipedia once, you can from now on use "wikipedia something" and Safari will give you the option to search "something" directly on Wikipedia).
I've accomplished a similar thing on the command line in Terminal using mencoder:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi input1.avi input2.avi
The above joins avi files, but I assume you could modify it to work for mp4s as well.
You can get mencoder as part of the files comprising MPlayer.
Here's a link where this is discussed.
The lowest brightness setting in my thunderbolt display or in my macbook are still high enough to illuminate a dark room, with sunset for example you're able to set the brightness even lower.
F.lux isn't a dimmer is just a blue light filter that helps you relieve/combat eye strain and helps you sleep.
Here's some more info about how blue light affects us. https://justgetflux.com/research.html
Not sure if these instructions still apply to modern versions of osx, but you need wake on lan for this (it will only work if your phone is connected to the home network that your mac is).
http://osxdaily.com/2013/12/14/wake-on-lan-mac-iphone/
Alternatively most routers these days will have a wake on lan page to send the signal from if you aren't home (just enable dynamicDNS and connect to your route remotely--unless you have a feature-less apple router).
You can also enable it from the command line: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7640955?start=0&tstart=0
Unfortunately there is no default lock option on macOS and for the life me I have not figured out why they haven't added one in all the years I've been using macs.
You can create a shortcut yourself though but you need to set your mac security prefs to request a password immediately on wake/screen saver start.
This article takes you through the process (5mins tops). Remember to use a shortcut that isn't in use by the system/other apps, I use cmd+§ for example.
There are a few tools on Mac OS to help you with this...
My favourite is WhatSize - https://www.whatsizemac.com/
There was another one I tested, but ultimately bought WhatSize instead, DaisyDisk - https://daisydiskapp.com/
Good luck!
You can, though you'd have to use something like rEFInd to handle boot management. Alternatively you could use unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive and boot into that.
http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot-linux-on-a-mac/
What everyone else calls "Logical Volume Management", Apple calls "Core Storage". I think you can do what you want with Core Storage. Check out this (possibly out-dated) guide: www.cnet.com/how-to-make-a-custom-corestorage-drive.
> As in, if we are talking about a range of 0-10(being the loudest) OSX volume feels like it runs on a range of 6-10.
Can you further clarify? Because that doesn't make any sense to me. Seeing as the volume can be fully adjusted between no sound (0) and maximum sound (10, using your scale), I don't see how you can say that the sound only ranges from 6-10. Are you saying that the lowest volume is too loud, or the loudest volume is not loud enough, or something else entirely?
Sounds like you already know about holding Shift + Option while adjusting the volume.
A quick google search of "adjust volume terminal os x" yielded this as the top result. Is this helpful to you at all?
http://osxdaily.com/2007/04/28/change-the-system-volume-from-the-command-line/
Apple's update policy for OS X has been to continue to support the previous 2 releases for security patches once a new major version comes out, so right now that means 10.10, plus 10.9 and 10.8.
10.7.x is no longer receiving patches/updates of any kind from Apple, including security patches. Here's an example, there are lots more. 10.8 is about to get left behind completely as well.
In addition to that, if you use Xcode for programming on OS X, the current version tends to support the current OS X release and the previous release only, though older versions continue to work on older versions of OS X. Other Apple and 3rd party software is likely to start moving even faster toward requiring new versions of OS X due to updates being free and (for the moment) supported on Macs even as old as ~~2009~~ 2007.
There is a neat program I use on my Retina 15": Switch Res X http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8355/switchresx Its nice to be able to use full retina, and even simulate higher rez.
Although Ive found that full retina is the only useful resolution past the default scaled ones, and resolutions in between do not scale evenly (hence OSX leaving them out)
We have been complaining here- power in numbers! Come on!
Bonus points if you mention that the issue is so big that it's made you downgrade to Mavericks (as myself)
There's simply no way to do this yet, since it just syncs the entire folder. Apple would need to add a function for this, which they're not to eager to do. But you can leave them feedback, maybe if enough folk let them know… https://www.apple.com/feedback/