Various things around Apple Mac – mostly hardware related
Just a quick note, as this seems not to be mentioned anywhere so far:
Known from Windows to quickly lock the screen; Apple finally introduces the same quick lock feature for Mac with it’s new OS macOS High Sierra.
macOS High Sierra beta is booting successfully from an external APFS formatted SSD disk. Read the full story here.
Tape on the camera may prevent somebody spying on you visually – but this does not prevent anybody hacking your computer and accessing it’s built-in microphone to listen to your conversations! And tape on the microphone spot is by far not making it completely “mute”. So tape is just not enough – you do need a software-based solution for full control: and there is one to do just that – OverSight.
When you also like a distortion-free screen, you may also dislike that the macOS cursor sometimes showing up in fullscreen video playback. Here’s a solution how to quickly hide a bothering mouse cursor.
In OS X it is fairly simple to create a virtual disk image of the type “ISO” by using built-in UNIX tools and the Terminal. We are going to use the “dd” UNIX tool to copy a whole CD/DVD into a new ISO disk image file.
In iCloud you may only remove an iPhone/Mac from the “Find My Mac” list, if it is listed as offline. In this case, a small “X” icon will appear next to it on the list – by clicking on it, you can remove it from the list and thus from tracking it.
Yes, it does! Seriously. Even on “Ultra” with GPU Settings on “High”. Period.
Here are some of my favourite Cheats to enhance a fun ride while annihilating your opponents.
I was able to fix playing DOOM 3 in pretty widescreen again, using some custom screen settings.