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Screenshot of the macOS Gatekeeper App Warning saying it may harm Mac or compromise privacy

Allow blocked App: «Apple could not verify that its free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy»

How to manually override the exception to open an unverified App (without disabling Gatekeeper / System Integrity Protection).

Oliver 2. September 2025
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Allow downloaded Apps to Open in macOS Tahoe: «App is Damaged and can’t be Opened»

Two solutions to circumvent the Application Quarantine in macOS, which prevents you from using downloaded Apps…

Oliver 25. August 2025
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🎬 How macOS leaks your Location data – uncovered by Adam @ 38c3

Worth watching: privacy talk from the 38. Chaos Communication Congress.

Oliver 4. January 2025
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macOS Scripted Setup – say Goodbye to manual User settings & App installs

An easy adjustable open-source script that will save your precious time.

Oliver 2. May 2023
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Hacking the Salt Fiber Box WLAN SSID-name limitations ✨👨‍💻

Give your WiFi any name: with spaces, Umlauts – and even Emojis!

Oliver 26. October 2021
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Completely disallow any website to ask for alert permissions in Safari

A neat setting to completely deny ANY website to ask for permissions for sending notification alerts… finally!

Oliver 16. February 2021
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Fix PHP Warning: session_start() with MAMP on macOS 11 Big Sur

Got a «PHP Warning: session_start() failed: No such file or directory» with MAMP PHP on macOS Big Sur – but found a way to make session storage work again

Oliver 29. September 2020
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How to reset user passwords in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 – a complete guide

This is the complete guide on how to reset an admin password in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger covering what you’ll not find elsewhere on the web.

Oliver 2. February 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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New Lock Screen feature in macOS High Sierra

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.

Oliver 17. July 2017
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