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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

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Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08

On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.

Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.

Links:

Via:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche

--jeroen

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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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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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Parallel hashing on MacOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14

Now that I have had an Apple silicon for a while, which has enough cores to perform parallel work, this is how I calculated a bunch of hashed from a lot of large files:

  • find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 md5 -r
  • find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1
  • find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 256

I contemplated about using GNU parallel, but that is not installed by default on MacOS and I was already familiar with xargs.

Argument meanings can be found at these locations:

Related:

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How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/04

[Wayback/Archive] How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld will likely hold for M4 based ones as well:

  • higher-end MacBooks with M1/M2/M3 Pro and Max chips support multiple external displays
  • get around Apple’s annoying M1/M2/M3 Mac single-display limitation via software and adapters

The solutions we explain here will also help M2 Pro and M3 Pro MacBook users extend to three external displays.

Recommended reading, despite the extra hardware and software you will likely need.

--jeroen

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oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube – or is it? Two alternatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

I needed this for some Windows ARM VMs on VMware Fusion for running on my M1 MacBook Pro: [Wayback/Archive] oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube

In the end this combination works:

  • before booting, remove the network adapter (physically, or virtually from VMware Fusion or from Parallels)
  • after boot, as soon as the Shift-F10 combination works, run oobe\bypassnro (or add the registry entry, see below)

After this, Windows detected no network, and offered an install with a local username/password indicating the choice “I don’t have internet”.

If that ever fails in the future, I can use this trick from the comments:

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MacBook Red Screen Issue, or why I turned off True Tone and Night Shift

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/28

The winter after I bought my first ARM based (or Apple Silicon powered) MacBook I noticed that often about half an hour after sunset, within 10 seconds all the screens (the built-in and external ones) would get a red teint on them.

[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Red Screen Issue – SimplyMac was the very first search result, and mentioned this:

Adjusting Night Shift and True Tone

Night Shift and True Tone features can affect the color temperature of your display. Night Shift reduces blue light in the evenings, which can make the screen appear warmer. True Tone adjusts the display’s color temperature to match the ambient lighting. If these settings are misconfigured, they could contribute to the red screen issue. Check your Night Shift and True Tone settings in the Displays section of System Preferences to ensure they’re set correctly or turned off.

I had to turn off both Night Shift and True Tone to get rid of this artefact, though for some people that didn’t solve the issue: [Wayback/Archive] Screen has red tint at night (True Tone and Night Shift are Off) – Apple Community.

I fully agree with [Wayback/Archive] Am I the only one who prefers True Tone?* : macbookpro

The only thing I like about true tone is how great it looks when I turn it off.

I was soooo disappointed with how crap the display was on my M1 Max that I thought about selling it as soon as I got it. Decided to play around with display settings and found True Tone. Turned it off and felt immediate relief. That’s how bad I think True Tone is. Absolutely flabbergasted that Mac’s come out the box with it enabled.

My 2015 MBP screen looks better to me than a M series screen with True Tone on.

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Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App – upgrading storage from 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19

Cool thread: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App – upgrading storage from 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro (images at the bottom of this blog post: they are large):

Just finished my most difficult Apple Silicon storage upgrade yet… 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro! This was especially difficult, as it required installing around 100 extra tiny components to use the second set of 4 NANDs…

Because I didn’t have schematics for this model, I had to painstakingly hand draw this diagram to locate the correct position of each component, which I derived based on a schematic for a similar model. Definitely took a long time!

If I need to have a Silicon Mac upgraded, this is one of the people to keep an eye on and when needed visit [Wayback/Archive] Technical Support – DosLab Electronics.

Dosdude1 has been active in this field of work for quite some time. A nice article on earlier work is [Wayback/Archive] Collin Mistr’s Open-Hardware 2.5″ IDE SSD Aims to Bring Speedy Solid-State Storage to Vintage PCs – Hackster.io.

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On Twitter, Apple Mis-Intelligence (@singhalrishi27) found out you can now order Mac Mini M4 upgrade SSD parts on Apple Self Service Repair: part numbers and prices below

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/05

TL;DR: the [Wayback/Archive] Self Service Repair – Apple Support parts are very expensive; having an expert solder them is way more affordable

Last year, [Wayback/Archive] Official (by_APPLE): Mac mini (2024) Repair Manual : r/macmini already had the part numbers for Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrades which I put in this table (staggered staggered to emphasise the M4 and M4 Pro differences) with prices for the M4 upgrades after receiving back the return credit (which I still need to figure out what you need to return):

Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrade part numbers
Mac mini (2024 with M4) Mac mini (2024 with M4 Pro)
661-43668, 256GB
USD 263.12
661-43669, 512GB
USD 251.12
661-43672, 512GB
661-43670, 1TB
USD 439.12
661-43673, 1TB
661-43671, 2TB USD 748.00
661-43674, 2TB
661-43675, 4TB
661-43676, 8TB

NB: If anyone can provide a Mac Mini M4 Pro serial, I can amend the table with those part prices as well.

It also had these links:

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