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Apple provides some simple modifications for the TouchBar — go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard and click the 'Customize Touch Bar...' button to see the available options — but none of them …

Launchd has two keys — HardResourceLimits and SoftResourceLimits — that can be used to place limits on the resources of jobs. They take a dictionary of integers, so you can add something like the fol …

Unix, on the other hand, tends to use the name of the executable, which is in the MacOS folder inside the app bundle. … The normal way to run two instances of an application is to use the unix open command with the -n option, e.g., one of these: open -n '/Applications/FireFox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox' open -n -g org.mozilla.firefox …

You should look at the App Store first: there are a number of screenshot apps available, some of which may have the features exactly as you want. Type 'screenshot' in the search field, and start pokin …

System Events is a faceless background app provided by Apple that gives AppleScript access to certain system functions and attributes. For example, we can use the app to change the desktop picture, co …

You might try using a logout hook. Login and logout hooks are deprecated, but I believe they still function. Mounting the volume should not be a problem; a user LaunchAgent would handle that nicely. T …

The simplest answer, I suppose, would be to buy a case for your iPhone, or at least one of those protective screen-shields, and then clean that. That way you can disinfect the phone without damaging t …

We can monitor folders in at least three ways: Using AppleScript Folder Actions, which can monitor when files are added or removed form a folder, or when the folder window is opened, closed, or moved …

Launchd jobs run with a default shell that does not import any of the typical environment variables you'll see in an interactive shell; in particular the PATH variable lacks any directories that your …

The unix command you used in terminal was the following: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES This adds a key to the Finder user defaults — _FXShowPosixPathInTitle — and …

Short answer: I don't think you can change or add to the defined groups. As best I can tell groups are defined on the system level, based on Apple-declared uniform type identifiers (UTI). I suppose on …

I'm a bit confused. In Big Sur, the main tab of the Keyboard preference pane in the System Preferences app looks like this: If you set the "Touch Bar Shows" and "Press and hold Fn keys to" pulldown m …

The simplest approach, I think, is to use Shift-Command-5, not Shift-Command-4. Shift-Command-5 brings up a small screenshot panel that lets you choose among the different types of screenshots. When y …

In the Disk Utility app, Click the 'Partition' Toolbar button, then in the big pie chart in the revealed tab, click on the partition you want to erase, then click the minus button ('-') at the bottom …

The issue is that you need to quote file paths for unix, using the quoted form of command in AppleScript. In other words, line three should read: set theFolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of myFol …