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Apparently Big Sur has locked down the preinstalled Apple apps. Is there any way to remove them? At the very least is there a way to shut them up? I'm far to annoyed by their constant reminder to check for daily features/downloads/free services/new movies... crap like that. I've turned off all...

I've been trying to tether my Nikon D3200 to my hack but I keep running into permission denied errors on USB. I've installed darktable.app to see the camera. darktable uses gphoto2 to interface with your camera so that forced me to install gphoto2 command line tools. Following the instructions...

I had a bizarre SSD issue that caused me to reinstall the OS. The SSD would report that it was completely full and refused to boot or even mount. So I reformatted the drive and then reinstalled OS Sierra. After a few bits of housekeeping to get things to work (like Mail and stuff) I discovered...

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I have two ea LG 27UD68-W 4K monitors and a GTX1080 Ti GPU. Those monitors have a power button at the bottom of the screen that has a light. When I shut down my computer those two lights flash ALL NIGHT LONG.... The neighbors must think I'm have a party every night... There is an option to...

For those of us in this mackintosh community we've come to rely on good backups before making any changes. I've relied on Carbon Copy Cloner for longer than I've been making hacks. Version 5 is out now so go buy it...

I have a GTX980Ti Kingpin edition card that I only recently picked up. https://www.evga.com/articles/00944/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-KINGPIN/ This card is strong enough to push Battlefield 1 at 2560 x 1600 resolution with a workable fps of around 60. I am running dual 4K monitors but I only use...

I see this as part of every OS X update notice but this has never worked for me. The App Store just sits there and spins in the upper left corner. Activity Monitor shows the App Store with zero network activity. It just spins forever. Every time. Every update. Always.... Sad in California

I created a gallery in order to upload a photo to an existing forum post. Now I wish to create a new post and include several photos but I can't figure out how to add photos to my gallery... The gallery button just displays the old picture from my previous post. I can't locate any "add pict"...

Every time I boot up my hack OSX tells me that "My Computer Was Restarted Because of a Problem." But I never see a restart. It shuts down fairly normally (perhaps a little longer than I'd prefer.) When it boots up I get that message. This began when I upgraded to 10.11.5 (from 10.0.0) I had to...

I use a R.A.T. 7 mouse by MAD CATZ and I also love to tap while I'm thinking. As I tapped I could see the mouse cursor skip across the screen! It would jump as much as 1/5 of the way across the screen! Well, I started to search the internet for a solution but all I found was that the mouse...

I've install a fresh El Capitan on a new SSD and used Migration Assistant to move my apps. However, I hate the mouse wheel scroll direction "natural" so I changed it right away. But after I reboot the mouse wheel reverts to the "natural" setting. I also don't like the way Safari keeps asking...

I recently switched from Chimera to Clover and Clover will not boot the Win 8 SSD. Chimera would let me choose the Windows SSD at boot time without problems but with Clover it just hangs on a blinking underline cursor. Clover solved the iMessage /AppStore issue I had when Mavericks came along.

I am "moving" this post here since I thought this was a more appropriate location. I prepared my Mac HD for the Security Update by repairing permissions and having a more or less current backup ready. I used the MAS to install the "Critical Security Update" per the Mac App Store Update...

I bought a EVGA GeForce GTX670 2048MB a year ago from Amazon and I thought I would get another to play Battlefield 4 in SLI mode while booted in Win8. This particular model now cost $30 MORE than a year ago! What is going on? Have you guys actually seen price drops?

I use 1Password for my logins. It worked great here since I created my account. As of today - it won't work with the pop-up since the pop-up disappears when I move the mouse to activate 1Password. Also, I can't seem to find the main login page that does not use the pop-up. Where can I bookmark...

Finder crashes every time I try to select an audio file to preview using Quicklook. I can right click and choose Quicktime Pro to listen to them so the files are ok. Images, Text files, ALL other types behave as expected - just Audio and Video files are effected. I use FCPX, Logic Pro 8.0.2...

Last Fall I got tired of waiting for Apple to update the MacPro (so I could retire my 5 year old 8-Core Mac 3,1) and decided to try my hand at building a CustoMac. With the help of this fabulous website I managed to build a working machine based on items recommended here...