Make your own macOS Finder icons from any image
Using this script for the Terminal-App.
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
Leopard → macOS Tahoe
macOS Games folder icon [2020]
Here is an updated version of my custom made Games folder icon to use in macOS.
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.
Restore the Security & Privacy option to allow Apps downloaded from «Anywhere» in macOS Sierra
Turns out that Apple has hidden the option to allow launching Apps downloaded from «Anywhere» since macOS Sierra.
Here is a summary how you can restore this feature or whitelist specific single Apps within Gatekeeper – the application responsible for app security in macOS.
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.
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.