Want to use Siri to control your AirPods and AirPods Pro with just your voice? Thanks to Siri voice assistant, you can perform various tasks such as adjusting volume, checking the battery percent, finding directions and more, without having to take …
Lees meerI try to implement these two very simple commands in an Automator service to be run by a keyboard short (takes a screenshot and OCRs it): screencapture -i /tmp/tesseract.png tesseract /tmp/tesseract.png stdout|tr -d \\f|pbcopy This wor…
Lees meerI try to implement these two very simple commands in an Automator service to be run by a keyboard short (takes a screenshot and OCRs it): screencapture -i /tmp/tesseract.png tesseract /tmp/tesseract.png stdout|tr -d \\f|pbcopy This wor…
Lees meerA long time ago (and on another machine) I bought a Mac App Store app (EventScripts) which is still available in the store. I now have a new iMac (with macOS Mojave) where I haven't installed this app. However the Mac App Store on this …
Lees meerAfter upgrading to Catalina and encountering the zsh upgrade reminder when launching Terminal, I've decided to switch to zsh. The default interactive shell is now zsh. To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`. Fo…
Lees meerModern MacOS versions include a handy Quick Action feature that allows users to quickly rotate movie files to the left, and without launching any application. Instead, the video file rotation happens entirely in the Mac Finder. Rotating a video or m…
Lees meerA simple battery exchange for a 2014 15" Macbook Pro turned into a major repair - at least that is what Apple's Repair contractor claims. All I got after a very disappointing chat and call with Apple's Support Hotline was this blurry im…
Lees meerWhen I plugged my Macbook Pro (Early 2015) yesterday, the lid was closing perfectly. This morning I woke up early and left without checking on the laptop. 8 hours later, I came back and realized the lid wasn't closing properly by a huge…
Lees meerIt is commonly accepted that any files stored on a personal external hard drive should also be backed up elsewhere (in at least one other drive/location) since external drives can and do fail and having >=2 copies greatly reduces the ch…
Lees meerThe following command will dump the dom for a web page using Google Chrome: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://example.com I'm wondering if something similar is po…
Lees meerI have an appointment scheduled for next Monday at an Apple store for a battery replacement on my early 2015 MacBook Pro with a Retina display. I was told that for this model, they need to swap the entire keyboard and track pad in orde…
Lees meerThe following command will dump the dom for a web page using Google Chrome: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://example.com I'm wondering if something similar is pos…
Lees meerI was given a script to automate some processes. This script gets executed on a Mac in Terminal. The script is a bash script. However, Terminal is showing syntax error near unexpected token `(' in ManagerDaemon="/Library/LaunchDaemons/…
Lees meerThe following command will dump the dom for a web page using Google Chrome: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://example.com I'm wondering if something similar is pos…
Lees meerAre you an iPhone user looking to backup your photos to the cloud, but you have either ran out of iCloud storage space, don’t want to pay for iCloud fees, or you’re already intertwined within the Google ecosystem? You’re certainly not alone. Thanks …
Lees meerTim Cook didn’t reveal anything new during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee today. But emails his company shared with the committee spoke volumes. These internal discussions reveal that what looks like Apple’s united front against …
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Lees meerI have a (very old) CD which is supposed to be mountable both on the Mac and Windows. Using Virtual Box, I can see the Windows partition, but on MacOS I can’t. Disk Utility sort of sees it, but the volume is greyed out and cannot be mou…
Lees meerDoes anyone know what this “web” icon is under battery usage in iOS 13.6 ?
Lees meerDoes anyone know what this “web” icon is under battery usage in iOS 13.6 ?
Lees meerIs there any way to schedule airplane mode in iPhone? I create an automation in shortcut But it’s send me a notification and I should to run that manually and it won’t work automatically. Is there any way!?
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