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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

Oliver 2. March 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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macOS show Dock immediately without delay - Teaser screenshot

Instantly show the Dock in macOS [M1 Apple Silicon Macs]

Some people commented that my previously proposed solution to instantly show/hide the Dock in Big Sur is not working on their new M1 based Apple Silicon Macs.

I was able to investigate and provide a working solution, tested on a M1 MacBook Pro:

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Oliver 13. December 2020
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AirPods suddenly change to low quality audio in macOS

When your AirPods paired in macOS don’t deliver the full audio quality, here is the most likely fix for that.

Oliver 7. November 2020
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Night Shift schedule in macOS not working: requires location for time zone to be enabled

What System Preferences settings need to be enabled in order to use the «Sunset to Sunrise» Night Shift schedule.

Oliver 24. October 2020
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019 on Apple iMac 5k Wallpaper

Call of Duty Modern Warfare performance tuning for an iMac 5K & Radeon Pro 580

This guide explains how to achieve 60 FPS in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019 when playing on an iMac 5K Retina with Bootcamp

Oliver 9. October 2020
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iOS not equals sign introduced on keyboard

Type a not equals sign ≠ or wavy equals sign ≈ in iOS on an iPhone or iPad

Since iOS 13 Apple added additional special characters missing on the default keyboard in iOS earlier – now signs like ≠ or ≠ are at your fingertips.

Oliver 6. October 2020
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Disable either @icloud or @me email address for sending new mail in iOS

Here is where you can find the «Allow sending from» iCloud email setting to select only one preferred email address for Mail app.

Admin 4. October 2020
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MAMP macOS Big Sur PHP Warning session_start failed no such file or directory - Teaser image

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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macOS show Dock immediately without delay - Teaser screenshot

Instantly show the Dock in macOS – without delay

A single command to make the macOS Dock to slide in and slide out without any delays

Oliver 12. September 2020
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