How to Take an ECG on Apple Watch

One of the most interesting health features of the newer Apple Watch models is the ability to record ECG right from your wrist. For those who aren’t exactly aware, ECG, or Electrocardiogram, is a test that’s used to determine your heart rhythm by re…

How do I run a sudo command at login/logout on macOS

I'm trying to run a command at login/logout which requires sudo. I've read about LaunchDaemon and LaunchAgent but as I understand it, LaunchDaemon will run the command at startup with root permissions, and LaunchAgent will run it at log…

Play Retro Game Boy Cartridges on Your Computer with This Little Adapter

Apple goes to extremes to stop leaks with lawyers, body cams

From iPhones to Macs, Apple rumors generate buzz and headlines like no other company, and everyone from small enthusiast sites to large mainstream publications (and, of course, the site you’re reading now) follow and report on rumors and leaks with …

How do I run a sudo command at login/logout on macOS

I'm trying to run a command at login/logout which requires sudo. I've read about LaunchDaemon and LaunchAgent but as I understand it, LaunchDaemon will run the command at startup with root permissions, and LaunchAgent will run it at log…

SMS formatting rules for iPhone - numbers, phone numbers, tracking numbers

I'm looking for list of rules that iPhone applies on incoming SMS texts. Here's an example of message I have received: The first number in the text is postal tracking number. iPhone thinks it's a phone number and displays it as underli…

Windows 11 Could Improve Laptop Battery Life With Dynamic Refresh Rate Feature

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Make my Macbook "forget" a USB device (resetting NVRAM didn't help)

Tonight my 2019 MacBook Pro mysteriously stopped working correctly with my external (USB3) DVD drive. However, I know the drive is fine because my Windows machine and my old 2016 MacBook Pro can use it without issue. Not sure what happ…

Amazon's New Reading Sidekick Feature Uses Alexa to Help Kids Read

iPhone 13: New layout brings ultra-wide camera upgrades into focus

It feels like just yesterday when we were peeling the protective film from the iPhone 12, but the launch of the next model is just around the corner. While we’re not sure of the name—we’re calling it the iPhone 13 here but it could be the iPhone 12s…

How to achieve oflag=direct in dd on MacOS?

I have installed gdd on MacOS. I figured out both dd and gdd don't support oflag=direct option. ‘direct’ Use direct I/O for data, avoiding the buffer cache. Note that the kernel may impose restrictions on read or write buf…

Identifying Specs of Used MacBooks

I am to visit a storage unit full of relatively new ( 2015 - 2020 ) used MacBooks to pick one for myself. I'm expecting there to be different models with different amounts of CPU and RAM. What is the quickest way to identify the specifi…

Disable kids' access to iOS device after 11pm, but also allow parents to remotely and temporarily enable/disable access?

Our teenage kids have been staying up too late on their iPhones, so we'd like to figure out a way to prevent them from using devices after 11PM. But we'd also like to be able to have a way to temporarily turn this off, e.g. if we know …

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How to achieve oflag=direct in dd on MacOS?

I have installed gdd on MacOS. I figured out both dd and gdd don't support oflag=direct option. ‘direct’ Use direct I/O for data, avoiding the buffer cache. Note that the kernel may impose restrictions on read or write buf…

OSX 10.10.5 Printing Wrong Sized Paper

We have a mac on yosemite 10.10.5 that was printing to a canon printer just fine up until the other day. No matter what we do with a 7x9.5 document, the canon printer gets the job and is complaining because it doesn't have size b5 paper…