Craig Hockenberry: This is ridiculous.If you don’t have enough space to show paging arrows, you certainly don’t have enough space to view the content.[…]Where there’s a will, there’s a way. To disable movie, PDF, and other useless previews, but stil…
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Lees meerI recently needed to view and search a 20 GB log file and realized that I don’t know of any Mac text editors that are disk-based, i.e. that don’t load the entire file into RAM. Wikipedia has a list of editors with Large File Support, but it seems to…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Yet for those few years, Disk Utility’s First Aid feature has frequently failed to perform checks on APFS volumes, reporting various errors that are the result not of file system problems but bugs in Disk Utility. These boil down to t…
Lees meerTapbots: Ivory is free to download, but requires a subscription to use. You may subscribe and immediately cancel to activate a 7-day free trial and evaluate its features in full. Outside of the trial and subscription, the app is limited to one accou…
Lees meerBrendan Nystedt: Within the secondhand community, even Macs with soldered-down components are looked at as having value, and ingenious tinkerers are repairing, upgrading, and adding software support to old machines long after Apple moved on to somet…
Lees meerGeoff Chappell: Some programs and drivers in some pre-release builds of Windows 3.1 include code that tests for execution on MS-DOS and displays a disingenuous error message if Windows is run on some other type of DOS. The message tells of a “Non-fa…
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