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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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 by jpluimers on 2025/11/14
The mini micro classic Apple emulators related post last week became way too big, so here is the classic Apple 2/Macintosh hardware upgrade part follow-up I announced in Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators.
Last week, I mentioned [Wayback/Archive] ARC Javmaster – YouTube. Let’s continue from there for an even bigger post (:
Javmaster actually has a shop at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the 8-bit stuff store – 8 bit stuff cool retro computer 3D gadgets and geekery with a lot of interesting (mainly Apple ][ era related) retro things like:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10
TL;DR: it is impossible on a Mac to accurately measure power usage by attached USB devices. Only a general indication is possible, but it is unreliable.
[Wayback/Archive] How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different
Related: [Wayback/Archive] View energy consumption in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
Via: [Wayback/Archive] macos view usb power usage – Google Search
–jeroen
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03
Written a while ago, but forgot to schedule this in the blog queue.
This is in reverse chronological order and only for the models I have, had, or considered buying.
| Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight1 | Weight2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2023) | 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) | 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) | 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) | (M2 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.15 kg) | (M2 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.16 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) | 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) | 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) | 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) | (M1 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) | (M1 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.2 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) | 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) | 14.13 inches (35.89 cm) | 9.73 inches (24.71 cm) | 4.49 pounds (2.04 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023) | 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) | 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) | 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) | (M2 Pro): 3.5 pounds (1.60 kg) | (M2 Max): 3.6 pounds (1.63 kg) |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) | 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) | 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) | 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) | 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) | 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) | 12.35 inches (31.4 cm) | 8.62 inches (21.9 cm) | 3.48 pounds (1.58 kg) | |
| [Wayback/Archive] MacBook Air (Mid 2009) | 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) | 12.8 inches (32.5 cm) | 8.94 inches (22.7 cm) | 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg) |
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
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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):
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brew tap <user>/<repo>makes a clone of the repository athttps://github.com/<user>/homebrew-<repo>into$(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. After that,brewwill be able to work with those formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s homebrew/core canonical repository.…
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 »
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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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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.
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$ 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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 