Category: macOS
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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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change your computer’s name or local hostname on macOS
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2322/mac
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Thunderbird and its date display format
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format It also mentions “Mac OS X”, and points you to the “International” panel in System Preferences: The date format can be adjusted under the “Format” tab.
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what are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew
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my occasional motor problems, my MacBook, my accidental macOS upgrade, time machine
Last night my occasional motor problems regarding my fingers made me supposedly type some keyboard shortcut, that caused to colour scheme flip to something I wasn’t able to reverse without restarting the MacBook. I sort of hated that. But I did so. During the shutdown process macOS asked me, whether I would agree to include…
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how to downgrade from macOS Catalina to Mojave
If you’ve installed the latest macOS Catalina and decided it’s not for you, the good news is you can downgrade to Mojave. Read this article to find out how to do it. https://macpaw.com/how-to/downgrade-from-catalina
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Catalina, fink, …
I was quite enthusiastic to install Catalina right after I read the notification of its availability on my MacBook. I installed it right away, but upon completion I got aware of that the fink installation at /sw was gone, because Apple made the root directory read-only. The fink project suggests installing fink at /opt/sw. Installing…
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macOS Dock Dividers
http://www.artofadambetts.com/archives/000046.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1TfV64QOvM
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Guide to Synology NAS with Time Machine
A Guide to Using Apple Time Machine and your NAS Apple Time Machine is a backup software application included with macOS operating system from Apple. The software is designed to work with their range of AirPort Time Capsule devices, the Wi-Fi router with built-in hard disk (which apple are pulling out of), as well as other internal and external disk drives connected…
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looks like the Fink build system on my Mac works again – after a simple “fink selfupdate” – I have long waited for that
Fink, a distribution of Unix software for Mac OS X and Darwin http://www.finkproject.org