Year ago, I wrote a program to encrypt important files. The program created a random key and stored it in Keychain, and on subsequent runs it would retrieve it from the keychain. (There is more about the API used, if you're curious, bel…
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Lees meerOn my ancient 2014 macbook pro, I could map control-minus and control-equal to switch to the next desktop on the left or right, respectively. However, it doesn't seem like this sort of thing is possible any more under Sequoia on my newe…
Lees meerI'm using Macos 15.3 (Sequoia). I have a large number of JPG and PNG images on another computer, and I want to copy them to my Mac and then be able to choose my Macos login picture from this collection of my own images. I copied all th…
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