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Upgrade ALL your Brew packages

Upgrade ALL your Brew packages

Having slipped down the rabbit hole of attempting to install every application onto my mac using terminal via Homebrew or mas, I am now faced with the question of how do I update those applications?

Configure Global Finder View Settings

Configure Global Finder View Settings

You had a rush of blood to the head, you edited (messed around with) the Finder view settings. You think you like the changes you made, but! horror of horrors when you open your next new Finder window, the changes are gone? Only when you return to that specific folder

Duplicate My Browser Tab

I want to duplicate my browser tab... quickly... using a keyboard shortcut, specifically without configuring a macOS specific application Menu Bar action shortcut. Try this: cmd + L to move focus to the address bar cmd + shift + return opens up the current address in a new tab

Toggle Autohide macOS Menu bar

Toggle Autohide macOS Menu bar

This AppleScript will toggle (check / uncheck) the box within System Preferences to: 'Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop' tell application "System Preferences" reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.dock" end tell delay 0.5 tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Dock

Zoom.us Meeting Mute State Displayed within your menu bar (where it should be)

Zoom.us Meeting Mute State Displayed within your menu bar (where it should be)

Display useful information in your menubar To achieve this we will use an app called SwiftBar Homepage: https://swiftbar.app GitHub homepage: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar 1. Download latest version: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar/releases/latest 2. Choose your desired plugins folder location 3. Download the Zoom.us

Print to PDF on macOS

Print to PDF on macOS

Why the hell would I even want to do that? At the time of writing, on the mac App Store there is a small, relatively inoffensive app called PDF Printer Lite. The premise is simple this application creates a system recognised printer, when this ‘virtual’ printer receives a print job

macOS secure input mode

Make it Visible What is it? macOS has this 'thing' / feature called secure input mode, it makes good sense, if the OS determines that you are inputting potentially sensitive data, secure input mode kicks in and prevents ALL keystroke monitoring, even from applications you have explicitly given permission to monitor

Two Finger Swipe, forwards and backwards in Google Chrome

Intended Audience macOS users who use Google Chrome, an Apple "Magic" trackpad and the Apple "Magic" Mouse The Quick Version If you would like swipe gesture navigation forwards and backwards in the current version of Google Chrome running on macOS to be consistent between your Trackpad and "Magic" Mouse. ie

Outlook 2016 for macOS, Authentication Failure, O365

Intended Audience People experiencing Authentication Failure with Outlook 2016 for macOS and O365. Symptoms * Outlook 2016 for macOS stopped being able to connect to O365 and check mail, no error displayed at this stage. * Credentials are definitely correct, still able to access O365 mail via iOS app and browser. * Deleting

Remote Desktop onto iOS (Almost)

Intended Audience Anybody attempting to remotely assist an iPhone or iPad user. Resolution Establish a remote desktop connection to a Mac Plug the iDevice that requires remote assistance into the Mac via USB cable Launch QuickTime Player on the MacGo to File > New Movie Recording Things to be aware of

OSX 10.11.1 El Capitan, Changing the Default Mail Client

January 2017 update On a fresh installation of macOS Sierra, changing the default mail client was significantly less painful! I launched "Apple Mail" added an account, from "Apple Mail" preferences I was able to simply change the default mail client, this appears to have made the change without issue. August