How to reveal hidden files in macOS (and hide visible ones)

Secrets lurk on your Mac drives—most of them are files and folders that are hidden in normal Finder views because they’re related to low-level system purposes you don’t need to deal, with unless you’re troubleshooting a problem or are a system admin…

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This Apple ‘Spring Loaded’ invite theory is kinda blowing our minds

It wouldn’t be an Apple event without a little friendly sleuthing, and the Spring Loaded invite is no exception. But unlike the usual shot-in-the dark wild guesses, there’s one that caught our attention this time. We’re not sure it actually means an…

How to Open Previously Visited Locations in Microsoft Teams

watchOS 8: 5 features we expect, want, and hope to see

There are lots of ways we want the Apple Watch to be better, and most of them wouldn’t even require buying a new watch. Apple’s smartwatch is already way more capable than any of its competitors, and outside of vastly improving battery life, the har…

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What exactly are the files . and .. on mac?

Anecdotally, files called . and .. seem to often (always?) be present inside otherwise 'empty' directories on macOS. Example Create a new directory (with nothing in it) mkdir test cd into it cd test and list its contents ls -a . .. …

App Store Updates does not renders correctly in High Sierra

It has been around a week that my Updates tab in the App Store looks like this: All the other tabs are looking normal. The only thing I tried was a restart, the iMac does not have any other weird behaviour. Here are my details, serial …

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Is it possible to use my public IP address to serve a website? (Catalina)

I'm a bit new to the topic of servers, ip addresses (public and private), ports, networking, and how all of this stuff ties together. Playing around, I managed to run apache on my mac and get an html page up and running on localhost. I …

How to Change Safari Background Image in MacOS

Beyond customizing the Safari start page for things like Favorites, Reading List, and Frequently Visited, you can also change the background image used by Safari in modern macOS versions. This allows you to use any picture you want as the default ba…

Is it possible to use my public IP address to serve a website? (Catalina)

I'm a bit new to the topic of servers, ip addresses (public and private), ports, networking, and how all of this stuff ties together. Playing around, I managed to run apache on my mac and get an html page up and running on localhost. I …

2020 M1 MacBook Pro: Built-in display does not show entire desktop (truncates 300px from right and 200 px from bottom)

It seems like I have a desktop which is slightly larger than my screen. When I maximise a window the bottom portion (approx 300 pixels) and right portion (approx 200 px) are not visible. I can move the mouse to that invisible and perfor…

How to Use Twitter Fleets on iPhone & iPad

Do you use Twitter as your primary social networking platform? If so, you might be excited to try out Twitter Fleets, a feature that was recently introduced to compete with the Stories feature that’s available on Instagram and Snapchat. (And don’t f…