How-to reset the Spotlight window Position in macOS
When you drag’n’droped the Spotlight search bar in macOS, it can be put back at it’s original position with a simple click.
When you drag’n’droped the Spotlight search bar in macOS, it can be put back at it’s original position with a simple click.
Update Feb-2017: as @jsfaq kindly pointed out on Twitter, this recording error also effects regular Movie Recording in QuickTime! There is a unfixed Screen Recording bug in QuickTime Player for macOS affecting even the most recent versions like macOS Sierra 10.12:… Continue reading » “Fix Recording Error in QuickTime on macOS “Recording stopped – try recording again””
In macOS you can use the built-in Wi-Fi Scan from the Wireless Diagnostics.app to find the best possible or least busy channels and bandwidth frequencies for your own Wi-Fi (or there is the open source tool KisMac2 to do the same).
When you are running a local copy of Wordpress in a MAMP development environment on your Mac, you might have run into troubles with Wordpress being “stuck” in maintenance mode after trying to update Wordpress (plugins, themes or core updates). In order to fix this – and have your precious Wordpress updates run through smoothly again locally – you can use a chmod-command with the Terminal.app in macOS.
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 order to export & import an SQL dump using MAMP on macOS, the following Terminal.app commands can be used with the “mysqldump” (export) & “mysql” (import) tools located in MAMP’s /bin/ folder: MAMP MySQL dump export Alternatively – in order to… Continue reading » “MySQL SQL-dump export & import with MAMP on macOS”
Ever unzipped a ZIP file, created with your Mac, on a Windows PC? Ever noticed there these strange files & folders _MACOSX, ._Filename & .DS_Store showing up? Good thing there is a simple way to omit any hidden macOS-specific files… Continue reading » “macOS: zip files without these hidden macOS files”
An alternative but handy approach to unzip files from the macOS Terminal.app
There’s any easy way to get the whole Apple iWork suite FOR FREE – Numbers, Pages, Keynote: just follow these simple steps…
In this article I describe, how you can keep a MAMP installation with all web-project files & folders in-sync across multiple Macs with macOS.