I have a macbook 12'' running sierra that I use occasionally. The battery died some time ago, showing an X in the status bar. I want to update to a new version of macOS but the installer shows: Your computer is not c…
Lees meerI am forced to use MacBook Pro 2018. I am located in a German speaking country, so the autodetected (or pre-installed?) keyboard layout was German. I work as English speaking programmer so I need e.g. the tilde ~. I have …
Lees meerI routinely find that the finder is faster for local disk to disk copy operations than Rsync. For instance Rsync on a large directory (100gb with 14000 files) can take many times longer than the finder. On my setup I see i…
Lees meerIf you use Waze to navigate you may appreciate having the Waze app be front and center on CarPlay while you’re driving with iPhone. You might even be interested in replacing Apple Maps with Waze if you use the Waze app more than Apple Maps on your C…
Lees meerNew to the Mac world (from PC) but really like it so far. In wanting to understand the operation of the laptop, I was reading about the function keys. One book listed the "MacBook Pro's Default Function keys. Went someth…
Lees meerAfter I had a disturbing discussion with an Apple engineer I realized that Catalina is heading at us like a freight train right now - and not necessarily in a good way, but acceptation is going to be mandatory by Apple. In…
Lees meerNew to the Mac world (from PC) but really like it so far. In wanting to understand the operation of the laptop, I was reading about the function keys. One book listed the "MacBook Pro's Default Function keys. Went someth…
Lees meerThere is an up arrow with a line underneath it in my menu bar. Clicking, right clicking, and CMD + Click does nothing. Also cannot drag and remove. Thoughts? I've never seen this before. Running Mojave 10.14.5
Lees meerNew to the Mac world (from PC) but really like it so far. In wanting to understand the operation of the laptop, I was reading about the function keys. One book listed the "MacBook Pro's Default Function keys. Went someth…
Lees meerI'm often logged into a non-public Network, where I was given a user name and password for the captive portal to gain internet access. In Safari on my MacBook, I made a bookmark for the portal page and stored the password…
Lees meerThis is similar to "Quick search in folder by key press", but with a slightly different case. When I have a Finder window open and press s on the keyboard, it selects the first file that starts with "s" however I want it …
Lees meerNew to the Mac world (from PC) but really like it so far. In wanting to understand the operation of the laptop, I was reading about the function keys. One book listed the "MacBook Pro's Default Function keys. Went someth…
Lees meerI am using the following layout for two Airport Time Capsules. The second augments (wirelessly) the network of the first. The objective is to have backup redundancy, while still not bothering with managing disks and sch…
Lees meerWant to quickly invert a picture on the Mac? You can use the excellent bundled Preview application to invert any image, there is no need for any powerful or expensive photo editing tools. Just as it sounds, inverting a picture will take the colors o…
Lees meerAll of us are aware of the importance of security whether it be the office or home. Encryption is a top agenda in today’s society and having the ability to route web traffic through a secure server is high in demand. Though there’s no doubt that sec…
Lees meerI have a macbook pro that I'm using for work. So I set up an ssh key for use with a bitbucket team account. My work email is a gmail account. But my bitbucket account is a team account with same email, of which I don't ha…
Lees meerI have a problem with the menu bar clock showing the wrong time after resuming from sleep. This doesn't happen a lot but when it does, I have to restart to fix it. I have checked that my timezone is still correct (Eastern…
Lees meerI have a problem with the menu bar clock showing the wrong time after resuming from sleep. This doesn't happen a lot but when it does, I have to restart to fix it. I have checked that my timezone is still correct (Eastern…
Lees meerI have a problem with the menu bar clock showing the wrong time after resuming from sleep. This doesn't happen a lot but when it does, I have to restart to fix it. I have checked that my timezone is still correct (Eastern…
Lees meerApple Mail 9.3 has an archiving feature. I'd like to better understand what this feature does, how it works, and why someone would want to use it. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time finding detailed documentation about …
Lees meerSpecifically there's a site called gab.com that's about free speech and has attracted a number of radical people. Because of this it has been banned form the Apple app store, even in its more recent iterations as it moved …
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