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macOS is the current marketing name for Apple's Macintosh Operating System. This OS was previously known as OS X, and Mac OS X before that (which itself succeeded the 'classic' Mac OS).

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Dictation under macOS Catalina not working with display microphone

I have this very strange problem that dictation is not working on my laptop when its lid is closed and it is connected to an external monitor (Cinema display). It does work fine when I use the laptop …
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Make CMD-Delete a keyboard shortcut in Apple Mail to move a message to the archive?

The delete key moves mail to the trash in Apple Mail, which is fine. But is there a way to make CMD-delete the keyboard shortcut to move the selected message to the archive? I know there is the shor …
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Mac app for writing handwritten notes

I have tried a few tools and ended up using GoodNotes. I have been using it for 2 years, still happy with it. A cool feature is that it sync's across Mac and iPad, and it offers apps on both iPad and …
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How to determine which apps iTunes will copy from iOS, to stop a deleted app being resurrected?

This may help to determine which app(s) are the culprit. In iTunes, I clicked on the "Apps" icon at the top left, then on "App Store" at the top, then on "Purchased" on the right hand side", then on " …
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How to get (logical) screen size from a shell script?

Using system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType, I can retrieve the size of a Mac's display in pixels. However, the command tell application "System Events" to get the size of every window of every process …
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How to get (logical) screen size from a shell script?

You can get the screen size with this command fullscreen_size=$( osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get bounds of window of desktop' ) in the same units as tell application "System Events" …
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Mavericks Finder spins when opening folders

I sometimes have a similar problem: Finder is completely unresponsive, i.e., all Finder windows are frozen, and they all show the spinning beach ball. In that case, for me the only thing that helped …
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How to change language of dictation without changing keyboard input source?

Maybe you can create two keyboard layouts, and add them to the top right menu bar. I used Ukelele, a free tool, to create those keyboard layouts. It’s not very intuitive, but eventually it works. That …
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