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Archive for the ‘Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS’ Category

What is the best free PDF Editor for Mac?… – Apple Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24

Need to check this out:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] pdf editor macos – Google Search

--jeroen

Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

MacOS: open file in other monitor

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24

When I have an external monitor connected to my 2015 era Retina MacBook Pro machines, I wanted some apps to appear on the laptop screen and others on the external one.

That was harder than I hoped for as no single solution works in all cases.

What I do now is to make sure the icon bar is on the monitor where I want applications to open. Not perfect, but works for most cases.

Here are some links that helped me:

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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

When Spotlight fails to find some files: mdutil revisited

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07

On my M1 MacBook, somehow Spotlight started to fail returning some indexed files (especially recently added ones would not show up or it would take a very long while for some of them to show up).

So I revisited mdutil and related commands while writing a comment on the YouTube movie [Wayback/Archive] How To Rebuild the Spotlight Index on Your Mac – YouTube which since then vanished, but luckily I saved it and here I amended it with formatting:

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Notes in case I want to create my own homebrew cask for installing software they disabled/removed

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16

Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):

Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Home brew / homebrew, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31

I try to stay on the default shells of environments as much as possible, especially as that makes life easier when needing to work on an non-customised system.

Apple switched back from an ancient latest GPLv2 version 3.2 of bash (they regard newer GPLv3 as toxic to their revenue stream¹), introduced MIT-license based zsh and introduced a bash nag screen a few years ago forcing users to switch. Suppressing that message reliably is trickier than you might think².

After so many years of bash, I still stumble over things that zsh does differently: [Wayback/Archive] command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Travis and [Wayback/Archive] zaTricky) is a “feature” with a simple workaround for cURL:

This is a zsh feature that prints a percent-and-newline after a command completes if that command does not already include a newline at the end of its output. If zsh did not do this, you would either not ever notice the fact that the command didn’t print a newline – or you’d see zsh’s command prompt not start on the margin and think it was a bug in zsh.

$ curl http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7   
Cisco Systems, Inc%     
$ curl -w '\n' http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7
Cisco Systems, Inc

Since the above example now writes a redirect messages (good bye HTTP, welcome HTTPS), and I very much dislike short command-line parameters, here is version with the long form of the [Wayback/Archive] curl -w or --write-out parameter :

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, bash, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 14 Sonoma, macOS 15 Sequoia, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, zsh | Leave a Comment »

Running Android applications on Apple Silicon: is the Android Emulator from Android Studio the only option?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13

On my research list: running Anrdoid apps on Apple Silicon.

I wonder if using the Anrdoid Emulator from Android Studio the only straightforward option.

Links:

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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Interesting take by Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … “” covering various platforms (both server and workstation) with tools that are easy and quick to install

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26

[Wayback/Archive] Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … macOS: LittleSnitch Linux Server: Fail2ban Linux Workstation: etckeeper Windows Workstation: GlassWire Windows Server: Sysmon — What are yours?”

Full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App

Some interesting responses to the original tweet, hence me saving it.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08

Having used less for 40+ years now, I wonder how moar measures up to it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

Features I at least expect are in [Wayback/Archive] less: display the contents of a file in a terminal | less Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Johan Walles recently commenting on [Wayback/Archive] linux – How can I have less automatically decompress xz files like it did with gz files on my old SUSE distro? – Super User.

--jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Development, Go (golang), Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Exporting Chrome History (with the “new” configuration and state file structure), and Epoch dates on various systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/02

Quite a while ago, Chrome moved from a structure based on “Current Session“, “Current Tabs“, “Last Session” and “Last Tabs” into “Session_#################” and “Tabs_#################” stored in a “Sessions” folder (and similar migrations for other state and configuration files).

The numbers in the “Session_*” and “Tabs_*” files are time stamps of those sessions, for instance one needs to figure out what the “13310808970819630” in “Session_13310808970819630” and “Session_13310808970819630” means.

Lot’s of web-pages with tips and tricks around the old structures are still around, often surfacing high in Google Search results.

I was interested in a particular trick to export Google Chrome browsing history and had a hard time figuring out the easiest solution.

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Posted in Apple, Batch-Files, Chrome, Chrome, Database Development, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, NirSoft, Polyglot, Power User, Scripting, SQLite, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18

Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Via

--jeroen

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