Mac users who come from a unix background may appreciate knowing how to implement the equivalent to the Unix “tree” command in macOS and Mac OS X. There are actually a few different ways to show a folder tree in the Terminal of Mac OS X, we’ll cover…
Lees meerRecently, I explained how to use special paste options in several programs to remove rich-text formatting when you just want to paste the actual letters and symbols you’ve copied from one place to another, rather than preserve the font choice, t…
Lees meerThe macOS Sierra GM Candidate build is available to download and install now for all Mac users who are participating in either the Public Beta or Developer Beta testing programs. The macOS Sierra GM Candidate installer is about 5 GB when downloading…
Lees meeriOS 10 GM is now available to download for all users who have participated in the iOS 10 public beta and iOS 10 developer beta testing programs. The iOS 10 GM seed will download and install on any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device that is supported…
Lees meerThis is the last episode on the NetInstall service, which will let us connect to a network home folder that the user can customize to their liking, using a NetBoot image that they can’t change at all.To get started with this final ep you’ll need …
Lees meerApple has announced the official release date of macOS Sierra will be Tuesday, September 20. All users with a Mac compatible with macOS Sierra will be able to download and install the update free of charge. MacOS Sierra, which is versioned as Mac OS…
Lees meeriOS 10 will officially debut on Tuesday, September 13, available as a free download to any supported iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device. Additionally, watchOS 3 will be released on September 13 for Apple Watch users, and tvOS 10 for Apple TV. The iO…
Lees meerApple has announced the all new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The devices feature all new cameras, water resistance, stereo speakers, and a longer battery life. The internal components of the iPhone 7 have been updated with a faster processor. The enc…
Lees meerDownload for Nvidia Graphics Driver 367.15.10.05f01 for macOS Sierra 10.12 Build 16A323. (Page notes a Sierra Compatible CUDA version will be posted later.)
Lees meerDownload for Nvidia Graphics Driver 346.03.15f03 for OS X 10.11.6 build 15G1004. (The build number after installing El Capitan Security Update 2016-001.)
Lees meerDownload for Nvidia Graphics Driver 346.02.03f09 for OS X 10.10.5 build 14F1912. (The build number after installing Security Update 2016-005.)
Lees meerThe mighty Mac OS X Dock was a thing of ridicule in its very early incarnations, when the otherwise reserved Steve Jobs seemed to have approved a thing that used lavish, unnecessary animation to show when apps were hidden or when the Dock was ho…
Lees meerWatermarking your photos is a fantastic branding opportunity. It can also deter photo theft, and including your URL in the watermark ensures anyone who sees the image online can easily find you and book a session. Lightroom users can create grap…
Lees meerI was innocently checking the Mac 911 inbox and answering messages, when I noticed the To: field in Apple’s Mail app for OS X had changed. Instead of it showing [email protected], an address I hadn’t put in my local Contacts list and given an …
Lees meerSometimes it’s the little things. Sometimes you just want an app to display your content the way you want, but with Apple, it’s not always the case. Take the Music app; you can no longer view a list of albums and songs, and this annoys some user…
Lees meerSee post for doc about webkit security fix in Safari 9.1.3. (Available via software update. Per doc on new OS X security updates above, they include fix in Safari 9.1.3.)
Lees meerInfo and Download Updaters of Security Update 2016-005 for OS X Yosemite and Security Update 2016-001 for El Capitan. Also includes article about fixes in the updates. (Post includes a reminder that Nvidia web drivers are broken by OS X updates d…
Lees meerGlenn Ruga asks: All of my Sidebar shortcuts go to folders on an external hard drive where I keep all my working files. I use shortcuts to these folders often, but when I disconnect the hard drive to pack up my laptop on the go and reconnect my…
Lees meerYou may recall from our episode on starting your Mac using NetBoot images that using a NetBoot image requires you to go through the setup process every time you restarted your Mac. This sounds useless, on the face of it, but it isn’t when you use…
Lees meerYou see a window and you want to paint it black. Here’s how.
Lees meerFrederick Benn wrote in suspecting that malware had infiltrated his iPhone: While running a battery app on my iPhone 6, it showed an invisible Chinese program running! After some back and forth and a bit of research, I found that the free app …
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