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I have a new MBA-M1 with the Anker 8 in 1 dongle. I currently have plugged to it the following devices simultaneously: 1) HDMI for my 1080p monitor, 2) USB-A for keyboard, 3) USB-A for backup external ...

When I have "Terminal" in the foreground and open another application, the new application opens in the background (rather than the foreground). This is rather annoying, as I always need to &...

I write regularly in both Spanish and English, and I have a US keyboard layout. I'm aware that one of the key combinations for generating vowels with accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) is: Opt. + e + the desired ...

In a notice in a local computer magazine from February 1997, they announce that "BeOS" is about to be launched for Macs (or already has been). It's claimed that this can "run several ...

I am using a Mac mini for playing media from a local network media server connected by cable (Ethernet). This Mac stays on 24/7 and is prohibited from accessing the Internet (router firewall). ...

on iTerm2 bash If there any way to change the color when 'ls' so i can quickly know if it's a directory, a file, a script, exec? Just like the Ubuntu terminal so you know a directory color for ...

I have recently gotten a "old" macbook 12" (from 2018) from a family member, unfortunately the color is rose gold. It doesn't look that bad, but I would prefer a darker/space grey color....

I have a 13-inch Macbook Pro (mid-2011, running High Sierra 10.13.6), boot ROM MBP91.00D3.BOC. Successfully replaced HDD with SSD. Wanted to upgrade RAM to 16Gb using 2 8Gb DDR3 A-Tech PC3-10600-DIM ...

I've some question about uninstalling Anaconda from macOS Big Sur. I was wondering if someone can please help me figure it our what to do. I followed the instruction on the official website (https://...

I want to use the gnu compiler collection instead of the x-code compiler to compile some bioinformatics tools on the mac, which did compile on Linux but fails to build on macOS. I did install homebrew ...

How can I resize panes in iTerm2 using keyboard shortcuts

I have setup parental controls for certain devices on my WiFi and all works fine on the MAC address. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211227 However, in iOS 14 there is a new privacy feature which ...

I used to work on Chrome but I am considering to switch to Safari entirely due to the horrible battery efficiency of Chrome. I noticed when opening PDF files, the titles of tabs all appeared as links ...

I just replaced a MacBook Pro running High Sierra with a new MacBook Pro M1 running Big Sur, and migrated my applications and accounts using Migration Assistant. I noticed this evening that ...

My iPhone has always been in do not disturb mode. Before the most recent iOS update, to 15(.2.1), it used to be the case that notifications would show on my lockscreen. Now they never do. How can I ...

I'm on Mac Monterey (Apple cpu) and I've installed librdkafka: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka using homebrew. It has installed to /opt/homebrew/Cellar/librdkafka/ However, online sources ...

I've reinstalled my 2015 MacBook Pro recently. Before that, I've created a full Time Machine backup to my local NAS with an automatically generated password. Unfortunately, I cannot find this ...

This question I think is best served with a screenshot. In Photos, the sidebar for a new library, basically looks like this: Well, for one of my macbooks, it just literally doesn't have the "Photos"...

I know there are extensions to simply export Chrome history as a JSON or CSV file, but how do I do the same on Safari?

I have a shell script inside my Applications folder to open an app via terminal. To make it fancy I changed the icon of the shell script to the app logo. My issue is that it doesn't work inside the ...

I'm trying out playonmac 4.3.3 on OS X Mojave (10.14). It installs Wine 5.0.2. I'm looking to type the windows "pause" button, but there's no pause button on a macbook pro. How do I type ...

Is there some way to do a full IPSW restore in an enterprise environment? In our case this means no DHCP and behind a proxy. Other machines all have a fixed IP and proxy certificate installed. But ...

Whenever I try to mute my Bluetooth audio input (mic) by either applying a shortcut with the following code set volume input volume 0 or by manually minimizing the sound to 0 on Sound Preferences ->...

Is there a way to set up keyboard layouts preferences to have a separate layout for each window? Use case described step by step: I use two keyboard layouts: English and non-English one. I often open ...

My program works as follows In a while loop, it checks for the active window change - AppKit library used from AppKit import NSWorkspace active_window = (NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace()....

What commands do we have for finding tagged files/folders using find on the command line? I have done a search and looked on this site and found nothing.

Is it possible to create some script to show all the finder-tagged items in terminal/shell? I'd like to create something like this: ls-tag "Music" to display all the items of Music tag

I have hundreds of videos that have been tagged in Finder with various keywords. I'm moving to a proper Media Asset Management system now so I'm looking to mass extract these tags into a text or csv ...

Is there a way to automatically backup my iPhone call history to a csv etc, and that this file will also stay on my iPhone or maybe be transferred into the cloud. There are many Mac apps that can do ...

I'm from Belgium, and on my own user account, the input source is set to a Belgian (actually French) keyboard. The input sources menu is enabled in the menu bar, so I can switch it to the Belgian ...

The official landing page for the Family Sharing feature states the following: https://www.apple.com/family-sharing/ When you set up your family, a shared album is created automatically in the Photos ...

I created a user, TestUser1, via System Preferences > Users and Groups on 22 April 2021, deleted it, didn't let it create a backup (since it was a test profile), but I noticed in /var/folders ...

I made a script to get the class "asin" and truncate it to the last 9 digits needed. But now I need to get all "asins" available from the website opened. Tried it with iterate and ...

Here are some information on hidutil: https://rakhesh.com/mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-keys/ I was wondering if it is possible to register two or more keys for one key? I know Karabiner ...

It is my habit to have dozens of chrome tabs open across a dozen workspaces in macOS. Often I want to to re-organize these tabs. For example, I may have an instance of chrome on workspace 5 with 10 ...

When I'm in Chrome, I'd like to be able to right-click on some links and choose "Open in Safari" from the Services submenu. As a security precaution, how can this be done without relying on ...

I get the below error message when I run git for the first time after a reboot: objc[728]: Class AMSupportURLConnectionDelegate is implemented in both ?? (0x1eff3a7a0) and ?? (0x1188402b8). One of the ...

I am trying to make something that types a word automatically on Google Chrome. However, when I run my code, it types the specified word on any open application with an available textbox. How do I ...

I have instances where I have files open on Photoshop and if I try to save them my Permissions are revoked I have to manually go change the read/Write permissions for that Enclosing folder and apply ...

I often find myself watching something on youtube, and wanting to take notes on what I'm watching in another application. This entails a lot of changing the focus between the applications (mouse click ...

I am trying to add a shared Exchange calendar to my Mac Calendar app. The shared calendar shows up in the Outlook calendar, but how do I add it to the Mac Calendar?

Any suggestion of how to convert tens of zip files to rar format? App or command line tool are welcome.

If make changes to a Slide Layout (using the Edit Slide Layout button), is it also changed in the currently used Keynote Theme? In other words, if I later create a new presentation based on the same ...

I've come across ways (AppleScript to toggle dark mode with fading and How to toggle dark mode on and invert colors using Automator) of toggling dark mode using Automator and AppleScript, but haven't ...

How is it possible to ignore a formula by name while upgrading packages in Homebrew with brew upgrade? Is there a command equivalent to this?: brew upgrade --ignore <FORMULA> This Stack ...

It is not clear to me if Keychain Access syncs up with peer devices on the network or if the username/password data is stored in iCloud (yikes, vulnerability). From macOS Catalina or newer, is there a ...

The website: https://ritx-fl-sales.bswa.net has username / password fields: For some reason the fields do not prompt Keychain access. Is there a work-around to summoning the password manager to ...

I have a MacBook Pro 15” mid 2014 (running Mojave) which has been stuck for a day on loading bars. It all started after the computer shut down despite being at around 60% of the charge. I have tried ...

How can I reduce the amount of time before a macOS / OS X Notification Center banner dismisses itself?

I‘m using <input type="file" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" /> (run it on CodePen to test it). in my web page to allow the user to select an image file. In the first picture ...