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Ever since I updated to 10.11.6 (I believe that is the current version), websites that used to run smoothly end up freezing and I have to close the tab or if I can't, manually kill the process in Activity Monitor. Needless to say, ever since I updated to Yosemite, I noticed my machine takes 5-10...

Mac OS X including OS X and macOS excluding iOS GUI = graphical user interface UX = user experience human interface as in OS X Human Interface Guidelines … The question What design blunders have Mac users experienced recently? For starters An application that requires: Shift-click to...

Hey everyone! Hoping someone can help out here. I am doing some slide presentations using Flash Player (I know, but it has to be this way). Previously, I would extract the file from a zip on to my desktop and it would just open the presentation. Ever since 10.10, I have been receiving the...

Hey there. I am the creator of Coherence. Coherence is a relatively simple app that allows you to turn websites into applications on OS X 10.10, 10.11, and 10.12. It is $2.99, with a free download available on our website. Coherence is unique from similar apps because it uses Chrome as a...

Apple’s Software Quality Decline. This is a nice read and the painful truth. http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/11/apples-software-quality-decline/?utm_content=buffercf405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I just happened to notice that the permissions of my boot drive are unusual. They say: Name Privilege system Read & Write wheel Read only everyone Read only I am still using Mavericks, by the way. Is that normal? I also have a partition with Snow Leopard and there it says...

If I bought an iMac would I be able to roll back the OS X to Mavericks if I wanted to? I've been told that I may need to buy a developer account..

Any mac gamers out there got any recommendations for a good mouse that perhaps doesn't have crappy software. I've got a logitech G602 currently, and while I like the shape and buttons etc, i've just had nothing but issues with the software. Constantly causes my mouse to just cut out and freak...

I have had some songs in iTunes where I would change the artwork and it would work for awhile, but then eventually it would revert back to the original artwork that I didn't want. Is there a better way to do that? I tried a Dougscript for it and it lasted much longer, but eventually that would...

Hey guys, I'm having a very annoying problem right now. As you can see in the pic I attached, the wifi is shown connected, but no available wifi list. Of course, the service is not available, but well, not exactly. If no internet connection, the browsers will tell so. But in this problem, the...

I have a 1TB HDD I've already partitioned it to be both 500GB. The main partition has macOS Sierra installed and the other partition I want to install OS X Yosemite. The Yosemite update I have is a pkg file and when I try to open it it won't allow me because I'm not running 10.10. So what do I...

A few days ago I tried to perform such share files and folders from Mac (Lion 10.7.5) to Windows 10. While sending files from Mac, Mac stopped very long. Because it is so long I tried to turn off via the power button and when I blame, only black screen on Mac but keyboard and the engine running...

The snapshot previously at http://web.archive.org/web/20140815012123/https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/Windows/Windows.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-SW13 has disappeared from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Please: does...

Just had a little fiddle with macOS Sierra... Love the Picture in Picture, Siri is quite useless... But the worse thing, is that Three Finger Drag seems to have been left out; I know where was a scare about this back in the Yosemite days... But I can't find anyway to configure it on the...

From 2006-2009 ZFS was to be Apple's new filesystem… and Wikipedia tells us that Apple's ZFS project closed in 2009, but that was not the end of the story. Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the history of ZFS for Mac OS X: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/...

I have been using MacBooks for a while with one Apple ID. No particular issues. However, I just got a new iMac and set it up with a new Apple ID. Several reasons for this, but the end result is I now have two Apple IDs. I'd like to load some of the purchased apps onto the new iMac. I've read...

Let's have a look what Apple had promised And what Apple actually delivered Translation: Half of customers are pissed off. I think they are really redefining the number of unimpressed users of OS X. Now with the new incoming Sierra release where the emphasis on performance is not even close...

I'm running El Capitan and was messing around with the screen saver settings earlier. I can't remember which version of OS X it was but there used to be a selection with the following names: Abstract Beach Cosmos Nature Nature Patterns Paper Shadow In particular, I'm after the Nature...

I am running 10.11.5 on a CMP 5,1 and my usb mouse cursor keeps freezing. If I disconnect the mouse from USB port and reconnect, the cursor is unfrozen. Everything else works normally, including Apple trackpad. What appears to be happening is that the Mac somehow loses track of the USB mouse...

Is there any documentation available for the simd.h library that Apple advertises alongside the Accelerate Framework? I don't think it's part of Accelerate, but the last few WWDCs have discussed it in the same session. I can get to the header files, which are better than nothing, but it would...