I'm using the Apple compressor app from the command line to generate movies from sequences of images. This works fine, but the relevant command line command just exits before the job is done (while the compressor app carries out the tas…
Lees meerSo I have a work computer (a Dell laptop) and a personal iPhone. I’ve used this laptop to charge my iPhone and when doing so, I’ve allowed access when the prompt asks “Trust this computer?”. Did I inadvertently allow syncing my iPhone w…
Lees meerI am trying to install Oracle VirtualBox on Big Sur M1 Apple laptop. Installation failed both on full security and semi-security. Does anyone know of a solution?
Lees meerI just updated the emoji font on my macOS 10.14.6 system using the method detailed in this answer. This seems to have worked great in that I can now view newer emojis that people send me, or that appear on web pages. However, the emoji …
Lees meerMy little brother and I want to watch Youtube without disturbing everyone. Is it possible to use two Bluetooth headphones at once?
Lees meerI messed up my partition table after trying to get Windows 7 Boot Camp installation bootable after being unbootable using option/alt on start up. Back Story At some point a few months ago, I had issues with my partition table after migr…
Lees meerI am using Big Sur. Inside the Messages app when I click the green circle in the upper left hand corner while holding the Option key the green icon will display a black plus (+) sign and the window will maximize to take up the whole scr…
Lees meerI recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip and transferred all my data over using a Time Machine backup. Homebrew packages are currently installed in /usr/local/opt/ but it is my understanding that they should be under /opt…
Lees meerSafari's Open / Choose File Dialog Window fails to show for any upload or select file option. This appears to be universal and the dialog window fails to show regardless of which web app, or site is being used. A new clean account and S…
Lees meerI've noticed the port 55555 looks like it is already in use on Mac OS Big Sur. If you run nc -l 55555 it shows an error. Address already in use But nothing answers if you telnet it, and nothing shows up on lsof -i tcp:55555 too. Very od…
Lees meeri currently have a 2011 27" iMac - i7, 3.1ghz with 20gb RAM with a gig of vRAM on a standard AMD Radeon 6970M video card. It's connected to 2 24" Dell U2415 monitors running at 1920x1200. i use it for web development (VS Code, various n…
Lees meerI messed up my partition table after trying to get Windows 7 Boot Camp installation bootable after being unbootable using option/alt on start up. Back Story At some point a few months ago, I had issues with my partition table after migr…
Lees meerI'm doing some web development testing which requires me to run a script which generates a virtual browser window. Whilst the script is running, the script interacts with the browser window several times a second. Every time something h…
Lees meeri currently have a 2011 27" iMac - i7, 3.1ghz with 20gb RAM with a gig of vRAM on a standard AMD Radeon 6970M video card. It's connected to 2 24" Dell U2415 monitors running at 1920x1200. i use it for web development (VS Code, various n…
Lees meerI’m using Safari on Big Sur, and need to capture a small section of a document to send off to someone. In Safari you cannot print just a selection of a page. Suggestions on how to do this?
Lees meerI am super new to the mac. So I have a brand new Mac (Big Sur) and I have downloaded Helm. Extracting this archive file is enough to install this kind of applications but I don't know where to put it in my folder structure. Is it /etc o…
Lees meerHow can I get zsh to play a sound when the command is not found? Ex: I have the alias vpn to open my VPN from the terminal (zsh). If sometimes by mistake I type cpn instead of vpn, I get the following output: me@iMac ~ % cpn zsh: comman…
Lees meerHow can I get zsh to play a sound when the command is not found? Ex: I have the alias vpn to open my VPN from the terminal (zsh). If sometimes by mistake I type cpn instead of vpn, I get the following output: me@iMac ~ % cpn zsh: comman…
Lees meerI recently created a bootable USB Thumb Drive containing a Linux Live Distro. I created it on a PC running Windows and tested it successfully on the same PC. Now I want to run the same Linux OS on my Mac with an Apple T2 Security Chip, …
Lees meerI recently created a bootable USB Thumb Drive containing a Linux Live Distro. I created it on a Windows machine and tested it successfully on the same Windows machine. Now I want to run the same Linux OS on my Mac, using the same Thumb …
Lees meerI am running macOS 10.14.6 and trying to connect an iPhone running iOS 14.3 It shows the message: "A software update is required to connect to " with a link to https://support.apple.com/HT208831 Unfortunately nothing on that page or the…
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