For more than a year I've had my phone in black & white mode and I find it greatly helps reduce the stimulating effect of using the phone, and makes me naturally use the phone less (and it's more calming etc). I feel way more productive…
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Lees meerI'm looking to buy a 27" display for my MacBook Pro (2017 | 15.4-inch 2880 x 1800 | Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB graphics) I am considering a 4K display, but I've read in multiple places that scaling can cause performance issues. (Th…
Lees meerI want to lock a folder from modification, which includes all its contents. I thought that this could be accomplished with the "Get Info" window and selecting the "Locked" checkbox, but this does not affect the contents of the folder. …
Lees meerI am not getting any sound on FaceTime. The picture is fine but audio is neither sent or received. How would I troubleshoot this on macOS 10.13.6?
Lees meerMail rarely below 30% cpu on a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 … -> could be 100% of one core … fan on (very loud), top of the notebook very hot, laptop very slow to react/respond to inputs making Mail unusable / stopping it makes the…
Lees meerI run a 2012 Mac mini using a Logitech C920 HD Pro USB 1080p Webcam with it. Recently I've noticed it's really laggy. Even in a Skype test window or camera settings, it lags about a second and is very jerky. Tests show I am getting abo…
Lees meerMail rarely below 30% cpu on a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 … -> could be 100% of one core … fan on (very loud), top of the notebook very hot, laptop very slow to react/respond to inputs making Mail unusable / stopping it makes the…
Lees meerHospitals are having trouble getting service information to fix medical equipment—and it’s not just a COVID-19 problem. We’ve heard countless stories from biomedical technicians (biomeds, for short) about how medical device manufacturers make their …
Lees meerI'm wondering if any of the built-in applications in iOS have isIdleTimerDisabled set to true at any time? If so, which app, and how do you get in the state to activate it? Note - if an app is in this state, it will have its display s…
Lees meerDid you know you can use AirPods and iPhone as a remote spying tool, or simply to boost the volume of some distant sound or speaker? Indeed, with a little planning and know-how, you can use AirPods, AirPods Pro, and PowerBeats Pro, like spying micro…
Lees meerI'm wondering if any of the built-in applications in iOS have isIdleTimerDisabled set to true at any time? If so, which app, and how do you get in the state to activate it? Note - if an app is in this state, it will have its display s…
Lees meerI have a triple booted MacBook Pro (using rEFInd as boot manager). Recently I selected "Update and shut down" when finishing up in Windows 10. Since then, rEFInd still offers Windows to boot from, but the system responds with "Missing o…
Lees meerSince some weeks I have a very strange issue, where I'm stuck how to further debug, specially as I'm more of a Linux Guy in front of a MacOS (10.15.4) From time to time I get in Firefox/Chrome a error when requesting a website with the…
Lees meerHey I ran export TMPDIR=~/tmp/ and it changed my temp folder. I was trying to get a Go backend working and an article suggested it. I was a little trigger happy and now this is causing issues with a once working Node app I have. The n…
Lees meerI have a triple booted MacBook Pro (using rEFInd as boot manager). Recently I selected "Update and shut down" when finishing up in Windows 10. Since then, rEFInd still offers Windows to boot from, but the system responds with "Missing o…
Lees meerI have used iTunes Match for years to upload MP3s from my Mac to the cloud library. I then listen to them on my iPhone using the Music app. But I want to know if there is a way to upload items using the iPhone instead of my Mac? There…
Lees meerI am currently downloading the OS upgrade Catalina for my Macbook Air. I have sufficient space (over 25Gb) on my hard drive. Initially, it shows the download to be quick with ETA ~40mins (till around 1Gb), but then suddenly slips to ove…
Lees meerApple has released the GM versions of iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 to those enrolled in the beta testing programs, suggesting the final version will be released to the general public in the near future. Separately, the final version of watchOS 6.2.5 is …
Lees meerYou probably know that Finder uses natural sort order rather than ASCII order, when sorting files by name. See: How does finder sort folders when they contain digits and characters? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/document…
Lees meerYou can control which apps have access to files and folders on the Mac. This article will walk you through how to manage what apps can access files and folders in macOS. This is a security feature that is relatively new, helping to precent apps from…
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