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Ubisoft Connect Beta: disable & revert it after activation

I accidentally activated the new Ubisoft Connect Beta – what could go wrong, right? Well, CrossOver on Mac seems not to handle it well yet. But how can you roll back to the OLD Ubisoft Connect, if all you see is a broken interface? Here’s how.

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Oliver 18. March 2024
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«Half-Life» 25th Anniversary Anthology via Steam on Apple Silicon Macs

Not officially supported – yet there is a way: Half-Life, Blue Shift, and Opposing Force directly from the Steam Mac App, and even with Game Mode support.

Oliver 3. March 2024
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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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