My name is Mem. And I’m a gamer. Over the years, I have collected a dragon’s hoard of games and consoles. Amongst the collection: a much-beloved Xbox 360. But after years of gaming sessions, our old Xbox overheated and stopped working. Ah, the Red R…
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Lees meerThese days, seeing software-based copy protection on something you “bought” doesn’t come as a shock. DRM, or Digital Rights Management, stops you making copies or backups of your Kindle books, your digital movie and TV purchases, and, of course, you…
Lees meerI often launch large applications that take many seconds to finish launching. I will click their icon in the dock or launch them from the terminal, and go on with my life. Then seconds later when the app is ready it will be brought to t…
Lees meerI've created the below launch daemon to run a nodejs program on startup (tiddlywiki in this case): Debug StandardOutPath /tmp/tiddlywiki.stdout StandardErrorPath /tmp/tiddlywiki.s…
Lees meerDo you want to quickly enable or disable Apple’s True Tone feature on your iPhone or iPad? If so, you’re in luck. Thanks to Control Center, it’s fairly convenient to turn True Tone on and off within a matter of seconds. True Tone is a feature that w…
Lees meerI have a USB-C hub (link to it on amazon is here). At the moment I have a setup of: Mouse and keyboard, hard drives, power cable and one monitor through HDMI into that USB-C hub and have had no troubles. However, I have a two monitor se…
Lees meerI often launch large applications that take many seconds to finish launching. I will click their icon in the dock or launch them from the terminal, and go on with my life. Then seconds later when the app is ready it will be brought to t…
Lees meerBBEdit has an awesome setting to make the application appearance match the selected editor color scheme – so when selected, if you select a dark color scheme in Preferences, it puts the app's chrome into dark mode. I'm looking for the o…
Lees meerI need to access files from CDs and DVDs on my iPad Pro to print them. I use digital crafting files and can download them from Internet without issue, but on discs I own, I cannot work out how to transfer from the discs to the iPad. …
Lees meerI need to access files from CDs and DVDs on my iPad Pro to print them. I use digital crafting files and can download them from Internet without issue, but on discs I own, I cannot work out how to transfer from the discs to the iPad. …
Lees meerApple’s developer betas are a good way to see what Apple has cooking for a final release to the public, and iPadOS 14 beta is no exception. Apple does run a public beta program too, but if you want the fastest access to the latest beta software, you…
Lees meerIs there a setting or a way to have the phone accept the passcode more quickly? The Problem: My passcode is greater than 8 characters. I've entered it enough times that I've become quite efficient at it. The phone can't seem to keep u…
Lees meerIs there a setting or a way to have the phone accept the passcode more quickly? The Problem: My passcode is greater than 8 characters. I've entered it enough times that I've become quite efficient at it. The phone can't seem to keep u…
Lees meerI have noticed from my macbook a new hostname is exposed with the name bogon even if I block this mac address on the router, it comes up with a new one. And do not have any clue where is it coming from ? please help.
Lees meerI'm hoping someone can help me (and that this is possible, considering I just spent an arm and a leg to facilitate this setup). I have a late-2015 iMac (27" Retina 5K display, running Sierra) and a 2017 iMac (21.5", running Mojave) and …
Lees meerWe’re 16 years into our quest to fix the world and defeat the evil e-waste overlords. But no hero can achiever their destiny all by themselves. We need your help with a master plan to conquer throwaway culture. So we made a survey/battle plan, where…
Lees meerI have a MBP running Mojave that I got from a colleague. It's got a single user account, let's say "John", and that user is an administrator account. I don't want John's account, I want my own. And John will not need that account anymor…
Lees meerI have an iPad Pro, 2nd generation with the iPadOS version 13.5.1 and I would like to draw or print on a page in the Notes app. I don't have an Apple Pencil but I should be able to do this with my finger. Below is a screenshot from my i…
Lees meerIn the past, I put temp files in /tmp/ folder, and the OS automatically purges them as time goes by. I'm now considering using the alternative folder /Users/username/Library/Caches/myFolder/ but before I do, I want to make sure that …
Lees meeriPhone and iPad feature a built-in password management tool called iCloud Keychain, it stores online account information and automatically fills out log-in details, credit card information, address info, Wi-Fi passwords, and more. If you use iCloud …
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