If Facebook is building an Apple Watch killer, the only thing that’ll die is privacy

Facebook and Apple are at loggerheads these days which is great for two reason: 1) “loggerheads” is just a delightful word and 2) Facebook is just awful. Absolutely terrible. Just perennially wrong and gross. The Macalope hopes he’s being clear abou…

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Can I charge a Macbook Pro 16" with a modified sine wave inverter?

Will this power inverter work? Could this harm the MBP battery/any other hardware? I occasionally have electrical problems, so I cannot afford a generator/UPS. This device (above) will convert from 12V to 220V from a connected 12V batt…

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Connect an old Apple display to a new Mac to give it new life

From 1999 until 2016, Apple released and continued to sell a series of external digitally connected displays optimized for Mac users. The displays started with DVI connectors, shifted to the Apple-made ADC connection, then back to DVI, expanded to d…

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How to master your passwords using iCloud Keychain

If you’re not using iCloud Keychain on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you should definitely turn it on. It’s basically a full-fledged password manager built right into iOS and macOS that stores all of your sensitive logins with end-to-end encryption and…

running shell or bash scripts with zsh (Big Sur)

Every time I need to run a shell script, I need to enter chmod +x For example if I want to run this sample script named "run" #!/bin/bash javac --version I have to go into my terminal chmod +x run ./run Is there a way to allow zsh …

How to cd to a mounted ftp volumn on big sur?

$ open ftp://ftp.census.gov I use the above command to mount an ftp server on Big Sur. I can see it in Finder. But I don't have permission to see it in Terminal. $ ls /Volumes/ftp.census.gov ls: cannot open directory '/Volumes/ftp.cens…

The 'open ' command in Terminal and the 'Reveal file in Finder' option aren't working

If you search for a file in Spotlight and command-click the file you expect the Finder to activate and show that file. Instead, the Finder activates but only shows my home folder. Same thing in Terminal: open /Users/myHome/Documents/aa/…

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running shell or bash scripts with zsh (Big Sur)

Every time I need to run a shell script, I need to enter chmod +x For example if I want to run this sample script named "run" #!/bin/bash javac --version I have to go into my terminal chmod +x run ./run Is there anyway to allow the…

Force Quit preview, and now it won't open the same document I was viewing all day

I was editing this file, and marking it up, highlighting etc, adding picture to it (as described in Add images to existing PDF with Preview), when suddenly Preview froze up and would not budge for a min or so. So I forced quit it, and t…

How can I enable 'secondary click' on macOS trackpad to work only with a tap, and not by clicking?

In the macOS Trackpad settings, there is an option named 'Secondary click', if this is checked, a two-finger tap or click will open the context menu. Can I only open the context menu with a two-finger tap, not a two-finger click? Becaus…

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Beta 3 of iOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.7, macOS 11.5 Available for Testing

Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.7, macOS Big Sur 11.5, watchOS 7.6, and tvOS 14.7. These ongoing beta releases for current generation system software are separate from the concurrent beta program for the next major …