Tuning Serious Sam 3 to run with 60 FPS on an iMac 5k under macOS
Nothing more pleasing, than running Serious Sam 3 on 60 frames per second & still having a beautiful visual look while travelling the virtual worlds.
iMac buying guide – early to mid 2018
This guide – adapted from my own evaluation and decision making process – should cover the most important facts, figures & thoughts you may go through when looking into buying a new Apple iMac (or any other Apple Mac models).
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update breaks DisplayLink driver 4.1 – displays will go blank
Attention: the recent macOS High Sierra update to version 10.13.4 will break the DisplaLink driver version 4.1 and cause any connected displays to go blank after the OS upgrade!
Overcome macOS High Sierra’s Gray Screen of Death after OS update
Is your Mac stuck in the infamous gray screen of death, after upgrading the OS? Here’s a solution to reboot properly again.
Fix Mail.app crashing in macOS – remove and rebuild Envelope Index files
I was able to fix my Mail.app crashing continuously in macOS High Sierra by rebuilding Mail’s Envelope Index files.
Solution approach: fixing APFS disk issue “fsroot tree invalid” in macOS High Sierra Public Beta 4 (17A315i)
Completely erasing & reformatting a broken APFS volume under macOS High Sierra Beta 4 fixed the “fsroot tree error” – make sure you have an up to date backup before upgrading High Sierra Beta updates.
Issue: macOS High Sierra Beta 4 (17A315i) breaks APFS formatted drive
Just a quick note, as this seems not to be mentioned anywhere so far:
Apple recently released Public Beta 4 of macOS High Sierra (Build 17A315i) – which broke my APFS formatted external SSD drive; kind of.
Solved: macOS High Sierra beta issues with APSF for a bootable external drive
macOS High Sierra beta is booting successfully from an external APFS formatted SSD disk. Read the full story here.
Restore the Security & Privacy option to allow Apps downloaded from «Anywhere» in macOS Sierra
Turns out that Apple has hidden the option to allow launching Apps downloaded from «Anywhere» since macOS Sierra.
Here is a summary how you can restore this feature or whitelist specific single Apps within Gatekeeper – the application responsible for app security in macOS.
Unix Bash Shell script to fetch a list of Websites using CURL
This Unix Bash Shell script was designed to fetch a list of website URLs using curl, returning – upon success – the HTTP status code and the final URL retrieved following redirects.