Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/06
TL;DW – FlexBar: a touch bar that works, contrary to the Mac touch strip 10 years ago.
[Wayback/Archive] Finally Someone Did What Apple Couldn’t… – YouTube
Interesting. Product and documentation links:
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] Finally Someone Did What Apple Couldn’t… – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOhpkyOu2WU
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/12
I wanted to use my old 9.7 inch iPad Pro 1st generation (yes – really old) as an Apple Sidecar external screen (iPad confusingly names this Continuity, but that OS X Yosemite feature does not fully support Sidecar), so needed the resolution to get a rough idea on what kind of settings would get the lease pixel scaling.
This was useful, but lacks the Apple model numbers: [Wayback/Archive] iOS Resolution // Display properties of every iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple Watch Apple ever made
It meant I had to:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/12
I wanted to connect my iPod Classic: 3rd Generation via TOSLINK to my amplifier (or alternatively via line-out).
Docks I found (most of the links only work from their archived versions):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/09
Get your vintage computer connected to BBS’s and more! It can act as a Modem, PPP ISP or a SLIP Ethernet adapter!
Video: [Wayback/Archive] Wireless MS-DOS Networking using a Serial Port and an ESP8266! – YouTube
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “RS232 Serial Wifi Modem for Vintage Computers V4 from The Old Net on Tindie”
In the mean time, more videos on it have appeared, for instance from [Wayback/Archive] Action Retro – YouTube:
Of these last two videos, the first also linked to this picture of converter tables, including 9-pin D-sub RS-232 to mini-DIN-8 apple serial (which could be switched between RS-232 and RS-422 mode): [Wayback/Archive] upload_4705.png (880×1874). It is referenced only from a few places:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/06
I started experimenting with [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DanielStormApps/Fanny: Monitor your Mac’s fan speed and CPU/GPU temperature from your Notification Center. · GitHub and [Wayback/Archive] Fanny Widget for macOS.
For homebrew users (aren’t all MacOS users using this great package manager)
brew install --cask fanny
Soon I found out this does not work for M1 MacBook machines (no matter if it is regular, Air, or Pro): no temperatures are read and fan speeds fluctuate heavily. I’m not alone in this, M1 support is not there and won’t be there – there have not been any updates to the repository since 20200502 and issues like these are still open:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05
On my list of things to try on MacOS: [Wayback/Archive] DaisyDisk | Home
Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.
At USD ~10 for use on 5 Apple MacOS machines, it is dead cheap especially since it can also scan cloud storage for some vendors.
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] anna on X: “Cool, I’ve just freed up 21.4 GB on my disk. Thanks to @DaisyDisk …”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/24
Despite, or maybe thanks to, being a duplicate I like this [Wayback/Archive] command line – How can I view all Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) in my area in the terminal? – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Jandroid and [Wayback/Archive] Ray de Groat)
The reason is that unlike similar questions it has a single answer that works on more recent MacOS versions:
system_profiler SPAirPortDataType
I usually amend it with | less for easier browsing.
It means this question skips all kinds of answers with commands that over the course of time Apple has decided to kill and now no longer work or only work as admin:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/28
Preview on MacOS has a great set of zoom keyboard shortcuts. They all feel very natural, and unlike Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, include shortcuts for one-page view and two-page view.
The screenshot on the right shows all of them in the menu, as somehow a simple Google Search did only reveal a page documenting a limited set of them. So further below, I will document the list.
The same holds for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat: it’s hard to find a good list of all view related keyboard shortcuts even when trying multiple times.
I did find a few pages though with partial lists of keyboard shortcuts, so I gobbled them together below in another table.
(I removed all entries that did not have a keyboard shortcut)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/25
For my link archive:
Related (some are older versions of the above):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/26
Somehow the default dpi setting on my ARM MacBook Pro was 300dpi.
This caused all the specific printer settings saves (mostly permutations of N-up and single/double-sided) to have become 300dpi. Fine for scalable output (vector graphics and fonts), but awful for bitmap images.
[Wayback/Archive] How to change default printing dpi – Apple Community explains how to set the default:
But it fails to explain that the default is not retroactively applied to saved settings.
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