Category: MacBook
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upgrading my MacBook Air (“MacBookAir6,2”) from macOS Catalina (AKA 10.15) to just macOS Big Sur (AKA 11)
What an adventure … macOS 11 is the latest macOS, they provide for my MacBook Air.
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creating a line break in Messages for Mac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages_(Apple) On the Mac, if you want to create a line break in the macOS Messages app by holding down the OPTION key and then hit RETURN to jump to a new line without sending the message. https://osxdaily.com/2014/07/05/type-new-line-break-messages-ios/ I wondered for years, how that would work – always too lazy to look for a solution…
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macOS: my MacBook had its colours “inversed” / mangled all of a sudden
Accidentally I got one of the shortcuts wrong, and my MacBook’s colours were all mangled. This is how I got that issue fixed: System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Invert colours
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how to put macOS in Hibernate (Deep Sleep) mode – and how to disable it again
http://www.karthikk.net/2011/12/put-mac-os-x-lion-in-hibernate-deep-sleep-mode-how-to/ https://www.lifewire.com/change-mac-sleep-settings-2260804 man pmset [link] $ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
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my MacBook made a funny noise, sounded a little like “dying hard disk”
how bad! I hate that kind of noise. disks aren’t really expensive, but will I be able to copy all the contents of the old disk to the new one, before it’s really dead? whatever variant, they all cost far too much time.
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learning from others – a temporary home-worker’s experience
I really enjoyed working with my design profession mate yesterday. He brought his MacBook with him, and I also learned from him, what the MacBook substitute for the scroll-wheel is: a two-finger wiping over the touchpad.