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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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Changing a Volume's "Device / Media Name"
I know a Mac volume can be renamed... obviously.
But if you look at the output of diskutil you will see that a volume also has a "device name" that corresponds to the name it was given when it was fo …
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How can the colors of a single window be inverted in OS X?
You can use Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Control ⌃+8 to invert the video colours of the whole screen.
There's no way to just invert the colours of a single window.
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How can I edit Address Book distribution lists?
In Snow Leopard there was a way to select which address to use for each contact in a group, for sending group emails or printing address lists. This was done by selecting the group in the groups colum …
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How can I change the OS X Lion Glossy Dock Notifications/Badges?
I'm not sure if I understand the problem without seeing a screenshot, but you can change the dock appearance to use the classic flat Dock style instead of the 3D glass style.
Paste this into a Termin …
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Will updating my iPad to iOS 5 cause me to lose media? (the answer is YES)
iDevices are designed to be linked to an iTunes library where they get their content. If you've never trusted iTunes before and been manually copying items onto your iDevice then you're just making it …
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How do you list items with and without labels from the terminal?
Using ls, you can show the extended metadata of files:
$ ls -l@
-rw-r--r--@ 1 andrew staff 1292910 Aug 9 11:36 labelled_file.jpg
com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_hlsi7t7nerhynemqvydgeb26de 50 …
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How can I relocate an iTunes library from a Time Machine backup?
The preference in iTunes tells it where to read and write your files. It will not move the existing music library. You should set this to your HDD/Music, and you're done. Consolidate will then pick up …
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Is there a GUI front-end to Apache for Mac OS X (Lion)?
No, there is no GUI for the built-in apache. This is how I just set mine up so I can add my own VirtualHosts more easily:
sudo -s
mkdir /etc/apache2/vhosts
chgrp admin /etc/apache2/vhosts
chmod g+w / …