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Bypass Website Paywalls Instantly with this Safari Shortcut

1-click download to add it your Shortcuts app, convenient quick access via the «Share»-menu.

Oliver 9. April 2022
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Windows «Print Screen»-shortcut in macOS Boot Camp using an Apple Keyboard

A built-in solution to replicate the behaviour of the dedicated PrtScn-key button.

Oliver 30. November 2021
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Make a Windows compatible ISO disk image with macOS

An easy to use solution with the Apple Disk Utility app & a little trick on Windows.

Oliver 27. October 2021
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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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Exporting your Contacts in bulk as individual vCards using Automator

Using an Automator workflow to overcome this limitation of the Contacts.app.

Oliver 1. October 2021
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Safari 15 tab bar challenge: quick close a tab on hover

⌘ Command-key to the rescue!

Oliver 10. June 2021
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Easily find and clean up large files and folders in macOS – common culprits

This free and clever tool helps you to reclaim disk space on your Mac within minutes.

Oliver 16. April 2021
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Unzip Split ZIP File Archive in macOS

Unzip splitted ZIP archive files zip.001, zip.002,… with macOS

Two ways how to unzip splitted ZIP files: using an app for that, or do-it-yourself via Terminal.

Oliver 5. April 2021
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MySQL 5.7 set datetime column to NULL from 0000-00-00 00:00:00

How to change a datetime or date column in MySQL to default NULL.

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Oliver 23. March 2021
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Continuous download of remote files with «rsync» from the macOS Terminal

A better alternative to «scp» when transferring multiple large files – which continues where it stopped in case of interrupted connectivity.

Oliver 7. March 2021
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