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erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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erics, January 4th, 2018
I was running out of memory constantly on Yosemite 10.10.5 and found the following article: https://discussions.apple.com/message/26929324?start=555&tstart=0 Edited and reposted without permission below… Disconnect any external or secondary monitors, if any is present. The video memory allocation leak can also happen if you have a system with an integrated card, like Intel, with no external monitors […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, howto, Leak, macosx, Memory, Memory Leak, PRAM, PRAM Reset, Reset, SMC, SMC Reset, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, April 12th, 2017
You can associate a file extension with an app (such as MacVim) via the “Info dialog”. Just select the file and hit Cmd-i, then go to the “Open with” tab, select app and hit “Change all…”. This will change the default application for that file type.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: App, apple, howto, Log, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Open, tips
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Author:
erics, April 11th, 2017
Press Option+Space and the cursor will change to the grab hand move tool. Roll your mouse wheel for vertical scrolling, hold down shift to switch to horizontal scroll mode.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Cursor, Grab, Hand, howto, macosx, Mouse, Move, Preview, tips
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Author:
erics, February 4th, 2017
Make sure you have Ghostscript installed, then: 1 gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS="/ebook" -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=”/ebook” -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf -dPDFSETTINGS={value} where {value} is one of: /screen – the lowest resolution and lowest file size, fine for viewing on a screen /ebook – mid-range resolution and file size /printer – high-quality […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, cli, Command line, Ghostscript, gs, howto, Linux, macosx, PDF, Reduce, Resize, Smaller, tips
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Author:
erics, January 29th, 2017
I wanted to send email from cron for various reasons, but the emails would bounce with an error 554: 554 5.1.8 : Sender address rejected: Domain not found Clearly, Postfix was using the “internal” hostname of myappledesktop.local (MacOSX has TWO hostnames! also, myappledesktop.local is not the real hostname ;-). So, I needed two things: 1. […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, Bounce, cli, Command line, Email, FQDN, howto, macosx, mail, main.cf, PostFix, Send, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, September 30th, 2016
For the Mac, you need to do three things in a row: 1. Quit Safari 2. Delete ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist 3. Reboot
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, DNS, howto, macosx, Safari, tips
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Author:
erics, August 12th, 2016
sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /path/to/yourFile.pkg -target /
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, cli, Command, Command line, howto, Install, installer, macosx, OSX, Package, pkg, sudo, Terminal, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, July 28th, 2016
MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard running on a Mac Pro 2009 8-way After a system crash, using the backup drive, this error started to appear: dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache To fix it, execute the following in Terminal: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force As always, YMMV!
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.6.8, apple, Cache, dyld, dylib, Force, howto, macosx, Shared cached file, Snow Leopard, sudo, tips, update_dyld_shared_cache
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Author:
erics, June 11th, 2016
As the root user, execute: “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia” –volume /Volumes/{USB_DRIVE_NAME_HERE}/ –applicationpath “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app” Be sure to include the required double-quotes, or use backslashes to escape the spaces in the path. Full instructions may be found on the Apple site: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Turn on your Mac by pressing the power button Press […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, 10.11, apple, boot, Bootable, Drive, El Capitan, Flash, howto, Mac, macosx, Reinstall, tips, USB, Yosemite
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