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New Shortcut to remove and bypass Paywalls in Safari

1-click download to add a convenient helper to your «Share»-menu for removing paywalls instantly.

Oliver 14. November 2023
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Recover files of an unmountable APFS partition on a portable SanDisk SSD drive

Bugged firmware broke my disk. But recovery worked!

Oliver 14. September 2023
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In macOS format a USB flash drive to use on Windows and Macs

Choose these formatting options in Disk Utility for creating a cross-platform compatible external volume.

Oliver 21. August 2023
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Combine multiple ZIP files on Mac

A quick way to merge 2 or more ZIP files into one, using the macOS Terminal.

Oliver 5. July 2023
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List all non UTF-8 encoded files in a directory

A shell command that recursively lists all files within a directory, which are not encoded as UTF-8.

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Oliver 22. June 2023
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Add Japan‘s «Suica» public transport card to iOS Wallet (English how-to)

A guide with screenshots to create a virtual Suica card on iOS.

Oliver 13. April 2023
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Make the switch from MAMP to Docker: how to migrate existing web projects

Guide & examples for a successful transition for local web development on Mac.

Oliver 22. March 2023
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Unblock Port 80 to fix Docker Mac error «bind: address already in use»

A local apache httpd service prevents Docker containers from starting.

Oliver 13. March 2023
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Docker on Mac: how to automatically resolve another service’s IP and add it to the .ENV

With two simple commands in docker compose

Oliver 29. December 2022
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Fix a crazy high kernel_task CPU usage in macOS beta

Taking load off a constant >400% CPU kernel_task process, so it chills again at around 5%… (for Intel-based Macs)

Oliver 28. June 2022
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