Microsoft offers free Windows virtual machine images for development. Does Apple have something similar for macOS?
Lees meerI primarily use my Mac Book with the lid closed and connected to external keyboard, monitor and mouse. To save a small amount on the power bill, I would like to run it from the battery during the day and charge the battery at night when…
Lees meerMicrosoft offers free Windows virtual machine images for development. Does Apple have something similar for macOS?
Lees meerWhen cloning an HDD with macOS Catalina Disk Utility's Restore, should I restore from 'Macintosh HD' or 'Macintosh HD - Data'? Does it make a difference?
Lees meerPreviously, rsync could simply be upgraded on a Mac to 3.x version by homebrew. As command, I used /usr/local/bin/rsync instead of just rsync (which used the preinstalled 2.x version). On a MacMini M1, rsync 3.x appears no more in this …
Lees meerI have seen people put the date/time widgets behind the subject of their lock screen (usually a person). How do I do this?
Lees meerI have seen people put the date/time widgets behind the subject of their lock screen (usually a person). How do I do this?
Lees meerIt'd be great if I could enter some name in Spotlight, for instance myproject, and then open a folder with the Finder. Is that possible? I have added too many folders to "Favorites". So, a shortcut > folder binding would be very helpfu…
Lees meerMy 5 year-old iMac has been a rock - until yesterday. Suddenly, it became extremely sluggish with nothing but spinning wheels & beach balls. Even closing an app required 5 minutes or more. I finally managed to shut down & reboot. The re…
Lees meerIt'd be great if I could enter some name in Spotlight, for instance myproject, and then open a folder with the Finder. Is that possible? I have added too many folders to "Favorites". So, a shortcut > folder binding would be very helpfu…
Lees meerIn previous iOS versions, you could select a photo or a video from your Photos app and duplicate it (so you can edit it and try filters on it without risking to delete the original file, for example): However, I cannot find this option…
Lees meerI've got a new hard drive and want to copy my old time machine backups over, but am unable to. When i open the drive info it shows as read only permission, even though I am the admin of this pc. The format is APFS (case-sensitive encryp…
Lees meerWhen using the Apple App Store app on my Mac, I cannot locate these two apps. Yet I can identify each app by their web page. Gmail - Email by GoogleGoogle LLChttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/gmail-email-by-google/id422689480 Proton Mail -…
Lees meerWhen I try to mount an encrypted image from Finder, it pops up with a password prompt. I am unable to unlock it using that for some reason. It's not that I don't have the password because I can unlock it using diskutil apfs unlockVolume…
Lees meerIt'd be great if I could enter some name in Spotlight, for instance myproject, and then open a folder with the Finder. Is that possible? I have added too many folders to "Favorites". So, a shortcut > folder binding would be very helpfu…
Lees meerIt'd be great if I could enter some name in Spotlight, for instance myproject, and then open a folder with the Finder. Is that possible? I have added too many folders to "Favorites". So, a shortcut > folder binding would be very helpfu…
Lees meerI don't remember my screen time passcode on Big Sur 11.6.8 and I do not want to resort to "forgot your passcode". I have an administrator account on the Mac. Can I somehow extract this secret code without resetting it?
Lees meerI inherited a friend's iMac 24" (Early 2009) for free. So putting a few bucks and time was worth refreshing a old machine for my 75 year old mom. I started with stock machine (HDD, 4 GB RAM, El Capitan). It was super slow but worked. I …
Lees meerBefore iOS 16, one could disable most of Siri’s audible feedback on the iPhone in Settings > Siri & Search > Voice Feedback > Hands-Free Only. See the previous, more extensive settings here. In iOS 16, Siri is now audibly announcing the…
Lees meerAnyone 1noticed the MS defender app VPN not working on the iPhone. The iPhone actually shows the vpn is connected, but in WiFiMan the phone shows connected to the cell co. With the vpn server missing? Wandering if this started after t…
Lees meerThere used to be support for an encoding option called utf-8-mac with iconv in the Terminal. It's mentioned in this forum several times. I used to use it a lot. Now with the following command (that used to work): iconv -f utf-8-mac -t C…
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