While announcing the Apple Watch Series 5, Apple did a very Apple thing: they touted a new feature, hinted at some of the technology behind it, and left some of us with a lot of questions. The biggest one for us under-the-hood types: what is an “LTP…
Lees meercommand: echo "test" | wc -c results (7 leading spaces): " 5" I tested this on my linux box and I don't get the space in front of the five. is this a bug or expected behavior?
Lees meerHello I'm using a mid 2015 MBP. My battery lasts 1-2 hours now, I got this text Condition: Replace Soon on the battery icon. Other stuff are my computer sometimes heats up, gets really slow and fans start working extra …
Lees meerIn MS PowerPoint users can save their presentations as a PowerPoint Show instead of a PowerPoint Presentation. Besides changing the file extension from .pptx to .ppsx, this option means that upon opening the file it will…
Lees meerI'm using Excel for Mac, version 16.16.14 (190909). I'm running Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A558d). All files I edit with Excel are recently quarantined (checking with ls -la@): com.apple.quarantine 30B It does not matte…
Lees meerI've moved to a new machine and installing MySQL is turning out to be quite an issue (the last time I installed it on a mac it was quite seamless). I used two approaches to install MySQL: brew and the offical installer B…
Lees meerLike saving powerpoint as .ppsx starts playing the presentation when you open it, is there a similar feature in KeyNote as well?
Lees meerI have two ssh keys, one for git (gitlab) and one for a server. My ~/.ssh/config is : Host private HostName x.x.x.x User username IdentityFile ~/.ssh/server Host git.example.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitlab Howev…
Lees meerHow can I set the default paper size when scanning with continuity camera using my iPhone? I am using the fantastic new Mojave feature to scan documents directly into Preview with my iPhone using File > Import from iPhon…
Lees meerSometimes when you check for available macOS software updates in System Preferences you’ll find there are multiple software updates available for different things, for example there might be a Safari update, alongside a macOS supplemental update, al…
Lees meerHello I'm using a mid 2015 MBP. My battery lasts 1-2 hours now, I got this text Condition: Replace Soon on the battery icon. Other stuff are my computer sometimes heats up, gets really slow and fans start working extra …
Lees meerI would like to completely turn off the screen rendering on my Mac for some time as I have some processes running in the background but I don't need to use the monitor. I'm expecting that this measure will save some batter…
Lees meerHello I'm using a mid 2015 MBP. My battery lasts 1-2 hours now, I got this text Condition: Replace Soon on the battery icon. Other stuff are my computer sometimes heats up, gets really slow and fans start working extra …
Lees meerHow do I check country of origin for apps in the iOS App Store? My experience is that looking for the listed developer isn't always accurate. Motivation: There is a lot of digital misbehavior and hacking that comes out of…
Lees meerWhat comes to your mind when thinking about ethical consumer goods? For most, it’s probably things like fair trade coffee or organic cotton—rather than a fair phone. And while it is becoming easier to buy responsibly sourced food or to seek out sust…
Lees meerI am aware of dockutil in homebrew but, I am trying to run a bash script that automatically adds dock icons to the dock on a fresh user account. dockutil has been uncooperative on fresh out of the box installs: #!/bin/bas…
Lees meerI have a big problem with bluetooth on my Mac Book Pro. I bought my first MacBook about month ago. For the first week everything was ok, but then my mouse began to lose connection with the computer. This happens very oft…
Lees meerI'm looking to completely turn off the screen rendering on my Mac for some time as I have some background processes running in the background but I don't need to use the monitor. I'm expecting that this measure will save s…
Lees meerI have a big problem with bluetooth on my Mac Book Pro. I bought my first MacBook about month ago. For the first week everything was ok, but then my mouse began to lose connection with the computer. This happens very oft…
Lees meerHave you ever needed to stop or cancel an iOS update before it installs on an iPhone or iPad? Installing iOS software updates is easy through the Settings app, but you may have noticed that once an iOS update starts downloading there is no ‘cancel u…
Lees meerApple officially did away with the home button on iPhones last year when all of their new iPhones came equipped with Face ID and an edge-to-edge screen. The company still sells the home-button-laden iPhone 8, however, and there are millions of older…
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