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    Explore articles about various features of macOS Sierra, Apple’s 12th major release of macOS from 2016.

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Make your own macOS Finder icons from any image

Using this script for the Terminal-App.

Oliver 16. September 2024
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Download macOS & OS X installers from Mac App Store or softwareupdate

Because I had a hard time finding them: official Apple links to download OS X Mavericks → macOS Monterey

Oliver 2. March 2021
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macOS Games folder icon [2020]

Here is an updated version of my custom made Games folder icon to use in macOS.

Oliver 4. March 2020
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Did you properly disable all automatic macOS Files & Folder uploads to iCloud?

There are actually two settings in macOS for automatically uploading files & folders from your Mac to iCloud.

Oliver 3. May 2018
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Hide that bothering mouse cursor in macOS when fullscreen playing a video

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.

Oliver 8. January 2017
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OS X: create an ISO disk image

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.

Oliver 6. October 2013
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