Category: Mac
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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
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How-to: Use Preview to put signatures on PDF’s, Pages Documents, and Mail messages – 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/15/how-to-use-preview-to-put-signatures-on-pdfs-pages-documents-and-mail-messages/ I discovered that lovely feature right now myself – and then I looked for a nice description – you may like it yourself.
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how to turn off “autocorrect” on iOS and macOS
https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-fix-autocorrect-issues-on-ios-or-macos/ Der article praises the feature quite comprehensibly. But I never got friends with autocorrect during the last many years, and I doubt, I ever will. I am not patient enough to teach the system my vocabulary. Actually the system should deal with me communicating in English, German, Hebrew, and French. Either by explicitly switching…
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macOS: changing keyboard input language
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15173/changing-keyboard-input-language-on-mac-osx
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macOS: how to show or hide Keyboard Viewer with a keyboard shortcut?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59875/how-to-show-or-hide-keyboard-viewer-with-a-keyboard-shortcut I like the the non-mousing approach best: Fn+Ctrl+F8.
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How to edit your Mac’s Hosts file and why you would want to
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/edit-hosts-file-mac-os-x/ https://www.imore.com/how-edit-your-macs-hosts-file-and-why-you-would-want
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macOS: pbcopy, pbpaste – provide copying and pasting from/to the “pasteboard”
https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/pbpaste/ – macOS https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/cygutils-extra/ http://www.johnborwick.com/2019/02/03/perl-one-liners.html
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macOS: CPU 100% use – sharedfilelistd and distnoted hog CPU
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/324564/sharedfilelistd-and-distnoted-hog-cpu https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/285945/what-are-the-sharingd-and-sharedfilelistd-processes
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macOS: most of my keyboard shortcuts did not work temporarily – restarting Mission Control did the job
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/23/restart-mission-control-in-os-x-lion/ Worked for me on High Sierra, long after Lion.