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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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Playing «DOOM 3» natively on Apple Silicon Macs with over 120 FPS

Say goodbye to the Intel port & return as Doomguy to Mars City – this time in macOS on ARM-based architecture.

Oliver 25. February 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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More Dynamic Wallpaper backgrounds for macOS

While searching for a larger selection of Dynamic Wallpapers to use on macOS, I came across a few awesome collections.

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Oliver 5. 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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Change HTML lang & add alternate hreflang links to WordPress blogs

A lightweight WordPress Plugin to improve content SEO and Accessibility for blogs with posts in mixed languages.

Oliver 27. July 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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macOS Scripted Setup – Version 1.1.0

New auto-installable Applications added & script setup improvements

Oliver 29. June 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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