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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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Copy and pasting between host and VM
It's not by default. If you have installed Guest Additions, then you can do this:
Start the VM
Go to Machine > Settings in the file menu.
Go to the General tab, then Advanced.
Set the Shared Clipboa …
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Hide Adium (or any other app's) icon in the dock
I find it really annoying how the Adium icon is always at the dock being useless:
because to open the contact list, you can just use the status bar item, (the dock icon is just a waste of space acc …
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Is there a way to shut down, restart or log off without seeing the popup?
There are a few methods to shutdown without confirmation (this will not remove the confirmation from the original method):
In Terminal: shutdown -h now, but this force quits all applications
Make an …
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OSX Dock's Equivalent of Ubuntu Launcher's Super + (1, 2, 3)
I think you're looking for Snap
Snap automatically assigns keyboard shortcuts to apps pinned in your dock using a modifier key (command, option, control, or shift) and the number keys. For example …
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Disable "Updates Ready to Install"
To stop the notifications, go to System Preferences > App Store and disable 'check automatically for updates.' This will stop the notifications. This was from http://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-os-x-mav …
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automate app launch at midnight ?
This is the easiest, non-technical, method:
(I'm on Snow Leopard, I've edited these to match Mavericks - the exact buttons to click may be wrong)
Make an Applescript and type this: tell application …
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Hide Adium (or any other app's) icon in the dock
I've found a way that works for me.
Originally, the user chillin told me I could just add this to the Info.plist file in between the dict tags using TextEdit:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>
But al …
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Keyboard shortcut: shift+tab in chrome does wrong thing
As a workaround, or just to check whether the problem is with Google Chrome or something else, install this extension.
To configure it to go to the last input, type in Shift + Tab in Shortcut Key and …
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Select non-contiguous text / words anywhere
How do I select text that is not together separately, for example:
ThiS is SomE sampLe teXt
or...
THIS is SOME SAMPLE text
(I want the characters in capitals to be selected).
I know I can use Opt …
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Take a screenshot of the top-most window
I want to have an AppleScript that takes a screenshot of the front most application. I have used this AppleScript:
tell application "System Events" -- get frontmost process
set frontmostProcess to …
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Font Editor on OS X?
There is a method to change the internal name of a font - so you can see it differently from within an app - but you'll need to use Terminal, but it is not very hard:
Make sure you are on an admin …
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Preventing desktop jump when window is open on another desktop?
It seems that what you are doing does not work the first time, but after 2 tries, it does. So do this to the 'When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application' …
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Open Office files from Finder in the same screen
Apple's website:
If you work in multiple spaces, you can assign apps to particular spaces.
Press and hold an app’s icon in the Dock. You may have to first open the app from Launchpad to see i …
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Mavericks: notifications no longer displaying
First, check your settings in System Preferences > Notifications. You may have Do Not Disturb enabled.
For com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist. It's located in your user library, not root lev …
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