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Teaser image showing trick to quick close a Tab in Safari 15

Safari 15 tab bar challenge: quick close a tab on hover

⌘ Command-key to the rescue!

Oliver 10. June 2021
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GrandPerspective for Mac - Teaser image

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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Teaser showing Terminal.app and rsync to macOS Finder

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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Teaser for indicating macOS and OS X App Store download links

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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Teaser image showing website in Safari 14 asking for notification alert permission

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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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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Teaser showing macOS Big Sur Night Shift error which requires location for timezone enabled

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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