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How to take screen shots on macOS

vrijdag 2 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

On earlier macOS there was a program Grab.app that you ran to make screenshots. Now there are only combinations of keys that take the screenshot. I can't remember these and have to spend some time googling for the combination. Is there …

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How to fix font size in Notes app when pasting from clipboard?

vrijdag 2 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

hope I can find some help. I'm a total newbie at AppleScript. I have put together a script that will copy the text I have highlighted on Safari, and paste it into a specific Note with just a keyboard shortcut. However, I realised when t…

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Force reset system preferences cache

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to enable/disable time announcement feature that's present in Dock & Menu Bar > Clock > Announce the time with a shell script. When I read the plist file, I can see that it's set to 0. > defaults read com.apple.speech.synthe…

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Force reset system preferences cache

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to enable/disable time announcement feature that's present in Dock & Menu Bar > Clock > Announce the time with a shell script. When I read the plist file, I can see that it's set to 0. > defaults read com.apple.speech.synthe…

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My Mac suddenly ran out of space

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

All of the sudden my 2013 iMac on Catalina ran out of space. Last time I checked (last week), I'd about 400GB of space on my 1TB hard drive. Now the computer starts really slow and then it says I've -43Mb (yes, with a minus sign). I thi…

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Force reset system preferences cache

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to enable/disable time announcement feature that's present in Dock & Menu Bar > Clock > Announce the time with a shell script. When I read the plist file, I can see that it's set to 0. > defaults read com.apple.speech.synthe…

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Chrome reroutes me automatically to servisepagefind.com and Bing without my consent -- how to stop it?

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

The way to replicate this is simple in my Chrome browser: Type the search in Google Modify the search in Google a second time Then it sends me either to Bing or to this weird servisepagefind.com What is going on? How do I stop this? H…

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How to fix font size in Notes app when pasting from clipboard?

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

hope I can find some help. I'm a total newbie at AppleScript. I have put together a script that will copy the text I have highlighted on Safari, and paste it into a specific Note with just a keyboard shortcut. However, I realised when t…

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Automation privacy preferences unavailable at random times

donderdag 1 september 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have this strange symptom in which all of the apps registered under the automation privacy & security preferences sometimes are non-existent after unlocking my MacBook. I have similar problems with SecureInput messing with keystroke-b…

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Automation privacy preferences unavailable at random times

woensdag 31 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have this strange symptom in which all of the apps registered under the automation privacy & security preferences sometimes are non-existent after unlocking my MacBook. I have similar problems with SecureInput messing with keystroke-b…

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What is the green download icon in the Mac menu bar?

woensdag 31 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I've done a reverse image search and come up with nothing. The icon is not clickable and I find nothing in the StartupItems folders or in the Login Items in the control panel. Can anyone tell me what this icon is for?

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How to fix iTerm when it doesn’t respect a custom default shell in macOS?

woensdag 31 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

On MacOS Monterey I've installed bash 5 with brew, installed in /opt/homebrew/bin/brew. Now I want to make this the default login shell, so I did add /opt/homebrew/bin/bash to /etc/shells. chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash sudo chsh -s /o…

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Is is possible to launch a call on iPhone from desktop Chrome?

woensdag 31 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I know that this is possible with Android phones and desktop Chrome. But is it possible with iPhones and desktop Chrome as well? In the Chrome window I can only see FaceTime, not actual phone:

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After upgrading to Monterey nfsd not working well

woensdag 31 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I set up an NFS server on the MacBook Pro to export certain directories in order to share with Ubuntu client running on VirtualBox. In /etc/exports, on the Mac, I have: /Users/xxx/VMShares/Xubuntu -network 192.168.56.0 -mask 255.255.25…

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Make Mac behave as a USB-Keyboard for another Mac

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

As part of a workgroup I am trying to run multiple bash commands in the recovery mode terminal. Because we have a large collection of Macs, and because not all of my coworkers are experienced in scripting, I am looking to automate the p…

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Why do I keep getting á when I press ' than press a? [duplicate]

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

On my macbook if I want to write single quotation ' then letter a I get letter á instead of 'a what is the problem, and how can I fix it? Example: if I want to write apple inside single quotation like 'apple' I get ápple

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How to let local user access to ssh

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have local user usr1 and root user in my mac. I can ssh using following command as a root user to a remote server but can't ssh using usr1. ssh -i .ssh/pem1.pem ubuntu@server1 I know since the permission for pem1.pem is 600 so only r…

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How to fix iTerm when it doesn’t respect a custom default shell in macOS?

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

On MacOS Monterey I've installed bash 5 with brew, installed in /opt/homebrew/bin/brew. Now I want to make this the default login shell, so I did add /opt/homebrew/bin/bash to /etc/shells. chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash sudo chsh -s /o…

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How to pass `option-c` to Hyper terminal rather than `ç`?

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to get the fzf directory switcher to work in my terminal (Hyper). It is supposed to work using option-c but in my case that just enters a cedille (ç). One workaround I found is to use Esc-c instead. How can I fix this? …

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My Mac suddenly ran out of space

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

All of the sudden my 2013 iMac on Catalina ran out of space. Last time I checked (last week), I'd about 400GB of space on my 1TB hard drive. Now the computer starts really slow and then it says I've -43Mb (yes, with a minus sign). I thi…

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How to remove nonexistant apps from the "Open with" menu? [duplicate]

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

When I right click in an item (e.g. HTML file) to open it with a custom app (e.g. browser), it shows a bunch of apps. However, some of these apps are no longer installed in my computer. These are browser apps (Chrome mods) that I had in…

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